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Writers:
W.R. Burnett (story)
John Lee Mahin (dialogue continuity)
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Release Date:
13 February 1932 (USA) more
Tagline:
Beware the hunters who stalk their prey through city jungles! more
Plot:
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is fighting gangster Sam Belmonte. He asks his dishonest brother Ed to... more | add synopsis
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Jean Hersholt as a bad guy? more (13 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Walter Huston | ... | Capt. Jim Fitzpatrick | |
| Jean Harlow | ... | Daisy Stevens, aka Mildred Beaumont | |
| Wallace Ford | ... | Det. Ed Fitzpatrick | |
| Jean Hersholt | ... | Samuel 'Sam' Belmonte | |
| Dorothy Peterson | ... | Mary Fitzpatrick | |
| Tully Marshall | ... | Defense Attorney Michaels | |
| John Miljan | ... | District Attorney | |
| Emmett Corrigan | ... | Police Chief 'Burt' Burton | |
| Warner Richmond | ... | Police Lt. Tom | |
| Sandy Roth | ... | Lt. John 'Mac' McCowsky | |
| J. Carrol Naish | ... | Pietro Cholo |
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City Sentinels (USA) (working title)
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86 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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USA:Approved | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-14
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Fifty-two minutes into the film Daisy (Jean Harlow) has a party at her place. On a small table against the back wall is a photo of Clark Gable, her co-star in Red Dust (1932) the same year. more
Quotes:
Det. Ed Fitzpatrick:
Mind if I ask you some questions?
Daisy Stevens, aka Mildred Beaumont:
Sure, if you don't ask them in Yiddish.
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Featured in Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell (1993) (TV) more
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Sweet And Lovely more
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I love pre-code gangster movies! While Warner's is the indisputable king, MGM threw out all the stops in what appears as an attempt to go head to head with Warner's in making a crime drama. The results are remarkable. The stars here are the cops, something WB didn't focus on until 3 years later with G-Men. John Huston does a remarkable job whose badge is on the rise but whose not afraid to get his hands dirty. His career is endangered by his reckless, irresponsible younger brother (well played by Wallace Ford, very early in his career), also a cop, who's got an eye for hard-bitten gangland moll Jean Harlow. There's several fantastic scenes: Harlow's line-up, Harlow's hoochie koochie dance, running outdoor gun battles and an outrageous final confrontation between the cops and Hersholt's gang in a restaurant. Look for a young Mickey Rooney and those twin girls that briefly announced Hal Roach's opening Our Gang credits as Huston's kids. Huston probably drew upon this role for the extremely weird Gabriel Over the White House the following year. Seeing Jean Hersholt (by all accounts one of the most lovable guys in Hollywood) playing a greasy Capone-esquire crime lord stretches disbelief, but at this point in his career he was considered a 'heavy,' and image that would drastically change over the next decade when he became synonymous with kindly Dr. Gillespie. Beast of the City gives you all this plus creative pre-Miranda police interviewing techniques--- it's cool to see those great 1929-31 Lincoln police cars racing around chasing bad guys. Beast of the City ranks with the best of the genre and thanks to TCM and TiVo I've seen it a dozen times... this is excellent! Rates a 10!