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Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too brutal and cynical even for pre-Code Hollywood.
Keywords
bootlegger
prohibition era
kidnapping
gangster
pre-code
Casts

Helen Morgan
Lola Fagan

Charles Ruggles
Willie Bindbugel

Fred Kohler
Sam Horner

Jimmy Durante
Daffy (as Durante)
Louis Clayton
Joe
Eddie Jackson
Moe

Joe King
John Hanson
Fuller Mellish Jr.
Hogan
Leo Donnelly
City Editor Keeley

Tammany Young
Jerry
Crews

Hobart Henley
Director

Dashiell Hammett
Novel
Walter Wanger
Producer
Helene Turner
Editor

Ben Hecht
Story
William O. Steiner
Director of Photography
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