Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 18, 1931
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,Cosmopolitan Productions
- Cast
- Jean Harlow,Johnny Mack Brown,Ralph Bellamy,Wallace Beery,Theodore von Eltz,Walter Walker,Paul Hurst,Joseph W. Girard,DeWitt Jennings,S.D. Wilcoxand 17 more
- Director
- George W. Hill
- Writer
- Frances Marion
- Producer
- Irving Thalberg,George W. Hill
- Cinematography
- Harold Wenstrom
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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