The Beast of the City

Director: Charles J. Brabin, Charles Brabin Charles J. Brabin

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/23/2009
UPC:	0883316125861
Original Release:	1932
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Archives
Presentation:	[Full Frame]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:25:00
Sales rank:	34,031

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Walter Huston	Capt. Jim Fitzpatrick
Jean Harlow	Daisy Stevens, aka Mildred Beaumont
Jean Hersholt	Samuel "Sam" Belmonte
Wallace Ford	Det. Ed Fitzpatrick
Dorothy Peterson	Mary Fitzpatrick
Tully Marshall	Michaels
John Miljan	District Attorney
Emmett Corrigan	Chief of Police
Warner Richmond	Tom,Tom
Sandy Roth	Mac
J. Carrol Naish	Cholo
Edward Coppo	Fingerprint Expert
George Chandler	Reporter
Nat Pendleton	Abe Gorman
Arthur Hoyt	Witness
Julie Haydon	Blonde
Chuck Hamilton	Policeman
Clarence Wilson	Coroner,Coroner
Charles Sullivan	Cop in Hall
Morgan Wallace	Police Captain
Mickey Rooney	Mickey Fitzpatrick
Robert Homans	Desk Sergeant
Edward Brophy	Police Announcer

Technical Credits

John Lee Mahin

W.R. Burnett

Charles Brabin	Director
Hunt Stromberg	Producer
John Lee Mahin	Screenwriter
W.R. Burnett	Screenwriter