The beast of the city (DVD) / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Cosmopolitan production ; directed by Charles Brabin ; story by W.R. Burnett ; dialogue continuity by John L. Mahin.
Publisher:
Warnerarchive.com :
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally released as a motion icture in 1932. Based on an unpublished story by W.R. Burnett. "Turner Entertainment Co." This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives"--Container. Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Peterson, Tully Marshall, John Miljan, Emmett Corrigan, Warner Richmond, Sandy Roth, J. Carrol Naish, Mickey Rooney.
Summary:
Police captain Jim Fitzpatrick is shipped out to the suburbs by crime boss Sam Belmonte. Now rid of the do-gooder, Belmonte's stranglehold on the city tightens and crime is on the rise. Not to be thwarted, Fitzpatrick sets out to clean up the streets as well as the corruption within the department. When his brother Ed takes up with the gangster's moll, Fitzpatrick finds the war against crime hitting too close to home. Convinced that the legal system does not work, Fitzpatrick takes matters into his own hands.
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