The Beast of the City (1932)
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A reluctantly appointed police chief in a crime-riddled city takes his job seriously and works hard to clean the streets of gangsters and to shape up his own corrupt department in this brutal, gritty film noir. Jean Harlow plays a luminescent but ill-fated gun moll. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, (more)
- Director(s):
- Charles J. Brabin
Synopsis of The Beast of the City
A reluctantly appointed police chief in a crime-riddled city takes his job seriously and works hard to clean the streets of gangsters and to shape up his own corrupt department in this brutal, gritty film noir. Jean Harlow plays a luminescent but ill-fated gun moll. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Beast of the City
- Walter Huston - Capt. Jim Fitzpatrick
- Wallace Ford - Ed Fitzpatrick
- Dorothy Peterson - Mary Fitzpatrick
- John Miljan - District Attorney
- Sandy Roth - Mac
- Edward S. Brophy - Police Announcer
- Julie Haydon - Blonde
- Charles Sullivan - Policeman
- Mickey Rooney - Mickey Fitzpatrick
- Warner P. Richmond - Tom
- Robert E. Homans - Desk Sergeant
- Jean Harlow - Daisy Stevens
- Jean Hersholt - Sam Belmonte
- Tully Marshall - Michaels, Defence Attorney
- Emmett Corrigan - Police Chief
- J. Carrol Naish - Pietro Cholo
- Chuck Hamilton - Policeman
- Nat Pendleton - Abe Gorman
- Clarence H. Wilson - Coroner
- Morgan Wallace - Police Captain
- Arthur Hoyt - Witness
- George Chandler - Reporter
- Director(s):
- Charles J. Brabin
- Writer(s):
- John Lee Mahin
- Producer(s):
- Hunt Stromberg
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