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    The Big Shakedown

    1934 · Crime drama · 1h 4m

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  1. The Big Shakedown. The Big Shakedown is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film starring Charles Farrell and Bette Davis, and directed by John Francis Dillon. The screenplay is based on the story "Cut Rate" by Niven Busch and Samuel G. Engel. The film also stars Ricardo Cortez and Glenda Farrell and was director John Francis Dillon's final film.

  2. The Big Shakedown: Directed by John Francis Dillon. With Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez, Glenda Farrell. Racketeers flood the market with counterfeit cosmetics and drugs, causing some tragedies.

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    • Crime, Drama
    • John Francis Dillon
    • 1934-01-06
  3. A racketeer breaks into black-market medicine. One of several movies made by Bette Davis in 1933, The Big Shakedown (1934) is considered the runt of the litter - if only because the actress is stuck playing the good girl role of fiancé (and later wife) to pharmacist hero Charles Farrell while fourth-billed Glenda Farrell, as a racketeer's moll, gets to have all the fun.

    • John Francis Dillon
    • Charles Farrell
  4. Sep 25, 2022 · The Big Shakedown (1934) Topics pancoligo. Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez. pancoligo. Addeddate 2022-09-25 16:29:28 Identifier big-shakedown-1934 Scanner

  5. The Big Shakedown (1934) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #TheBigShakedown"5 brilliant stars to thrill you! Charles Farrell! Bette Davis! Ricardo Cortez! Glenda Fa...

    • 2 min
    • 1847
    • Warner Bros. Classics
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  8. Two years and over a dozen films into her contract with Warner Bros., Bette Davis was still struggling to break through from studio programmers to the the A-list when she was cast in The Big Shakedown as Norma Nelson, the saccharine-sweet, ever-supportive fiancée of a pharmacist who falls in with gangsters.

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