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A gangster is jailed for ten years after his wife becomes pregnant. He becomes bitter when she divorces him and remarries.A gangster is jailed for ten years after his wife becomes pregnant. He becomes bitter when she divorces him and remarries.A gangster is jailed for ten years after his wife becomes pregnant. He becomes bitter when she divorces him and remarries.
Edward Brophy
- 'Fats' Garvey
- (as Edward S. Brophy)
Victor Adams
- Warehouse Gangster
- (uncredited)
Richard Allen
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Barnes
- Boy
- (uncredited)
Don 'Red' Barry
- Billy Ernst
- (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
- Convict
- (uncredited)
William 'Billy' Benedict
- Freddy - Office Boy
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaOne of the few films - and quite possibly the only one - where James Stewart sports a groomed mustache. He appears unshaven in many films (especially westerns) but in the latter part of this one he is clean shaven except for the upper lip.
- GoofsJoe Krozac is sent to Alcatraz in 1927, but Alcatraz didn't become a federal penitentiary until 1933.
- Quotes
Joe Krozac: [to his wife who has fainted at the table] What's the matter? Hey, Baby!
[to Curly]
Joe Krozac: Do you think she's sick?
Curly: [Sarcastically] Well I never had a dame that slept during dinner.
- Crazy creditsCredits appear as news headlines.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The First Gangster and the Last Gangster (1937)
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Unpromising material, but excellent drama
There are a lot of theoretical strikes against this movie-- Robinson playing a Capone lookalike for the zillionth time (right before he switched mainly to playing them for comedy in things like A Slight Case of Murder and Brother Orchid); post-Code MGM instead of pre- Code Warner Bros., which surely means a softer handling of the gangster theme; a no-name director and female co-star, Jimmy Stewart in a thankless good guy role; and, not least, a sort of gangster Sin of Madelon Claudet plot in which Robinson gets to get weepy about not knowing his son while he's in Alcatraz.
And amazingly, it's all handled remarkably freshly-- and toughly, especially from the point where the movie pulls the rug out from under big shot Robinson with a long and realistically bleak prison train sequence. Almost every opportunity to sink into cliche is rethought to find a fresher angle-- instead of the archetypal Warner Bros. tough-guy prison, with the warden acting like a crime boss himself to keep his charges in line, the movie's Alcatraz is a streamlined, impersonal machine for reducing men to numbers, the striking production design as institutionally cold as the manner of the warden. The classic welcome home from the boys (such lovable gangster lugs as Lionel Stander and Edward Brophy) takes a highly unexpected turn-- and keeps turning. Although the scenes where he finally meets his son again are hampered by unrealistic dialogue for the kid, in all this is a strong and thoughtful adult drama which brings emotional realism back to a genre usually riddled with cliches.
And amazingly, it's all handled remarkably freshly-- and toughly, especially from the point where the movie pulls the rug out from under big shot Robinson with a long and realistically bleak prison train sequence. Almost every opportunity to sink into cliche is rethought to find a fresher angle-- instead of the archetypal Warner Bros. tough-guy prison, with the warden acting like a crime boss himself to keep his charges in line, the movie's Alcatraz is a streamlined, impersonal machine for reducing men to numbers, the striking production design as institutionally cold as the manner of the warden. The classic welcome home from the boys (such lovable gangster lugs as Lionel Stander and Edward Brophy) takes a highly unexpected turn-- and keeps turning. Although the scenes where he finally meets his son again are hampered by unrealistic dialogue for the kid, in all this is a strong and thoughtful adult drama which brings emotional realism back to a genre usually riddled with cliches.
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- Another Public Enemy
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- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
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