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Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy, and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of six masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.
Keywords
secret society
bootlegging
pre-code
Casts

Wallace Beery
Louis 'Slaughterhouse' Scorpio

Lewis Stone
Richard 'Newt' Newton - Attorney at Law

Johnny Mack Brown
Hank Rogers

Jean Harlow
Anne Courtland

Marjorie Rambeau
Peaches
Paul Hurst
Nick Mizoski - the Gouger

Clark Gable
Carl Luckner

Ralph Bellamy
Johnny Franks

John Miljan
Joe Colimo

DeWitt Jennings
Chief of Police Donlin

Murray Kinnell
Metz - the Dummy

Fletcher Norton
Jimmy Delano

Louis Natheaux
Eddie

Frank McGlynn Sr.
Judge

Theodore von Eltz
District Attorney Keeler

Lynton Brent
Reporter (uncredited)

Charles Giblyn
Mr. Simms - Ballistics Expert (uncredited)

Joseph W. Girard
Official (uncredited)
Betty Lawson
Undertermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Tom London
Blackjacking Gangster (uncredited)

George Magrill
Police Guard at Jailhouse (uncredited)

Lee Phelps
Smelts - Waiter (uncredited)
Oscar Rudolph
Ivan Colimo (uncredited)
Hector Sarno
Finko (uncredited)

Carol Tevis
Manicurist (uncredited)

Walter Walker
Onlooker in Courtroom (uncredited)
S.D. Wilcox
Protesting Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
Crews

Frances Marion
Writer
George W. Hill
Director

Irving Thalberg
Producer
Harold Wenstrom
Director of Photography
George W. Hill
Producer
Blanche Sewell
Editor

Edgar G. Ulmer
Production Design

Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Backdrops & Posters

