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The Beast of the City is a 1932 American pre-Code gangster film featuring cops as vigilantes and known for its singularly vicious ending. Written by W.R. Burnett, Ben Hecht (uncredited), and John Lee Mahin, and directed by Charles Brabin, the film stars Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt, and Tully Marshall .
The Beast of the City: Directed by Charles Brabin. With Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt. Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.
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Sep 6, 2013 · Beast of the City is MGM’s attempt to gently nudge the public away from the glamorous figures of crime– and from Warner Brothers’ gangster goldmine– and back to the forces of good and righteousness. They even kick it off with a bang, quoting just-to-the-left-of-Rand-Paul President Herbert Hoover to start their opening scrawl:
The Beast of the City. A police captain leads the fight against a vicious gangland chief in exciting drama starring Walter Huston, Jean Harlow and Wallace Ford co-star in riveting look into gangster life. 53 IMDb 6.7 1 h 26 min 1932. X-Ray 13+.
Policeman Ed (Wallace Ford) processing a prisoner then enters the famous line-up scene in which Jean Harlow (as Mildred/Daisy) is introduced, in her first MGM film, Beast Of The City, 1932.
Capt. Jim Fitzpatrick (Walter Huston) is a principled family man, but when it comes to his job with the police in Prohibition-era Chicago, he's a vicious and violent crusader for...
- Crime, Drama
