The Beast of the City (1932)
Release Date: Feb 13, 1932 Wide
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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. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Feb 13, 1932 Wide
MGM
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Cast
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Walter Huston
Capt. Jim Fitzpatric... -
Jean Harlow
Daisy Stevens -
Wallace Ford
Ed Fitzpatrick -
Jean Hersholt
Sam Belmonte -
Dorothy Peterson
Mary Fitzpatrick -
Tully Marshall
Michaels Defence Att... -
John Miljan
District Attorney -
Emmett Corrigan
Police Chief -
Sandy Roth
Mac -
J. Carrol Naish
Pietro Cholo -
Edward S. Brophy
Police Announcer -
George Chandler
Reporter -
Chuck Hamilton
Policeman -
Julie Haydon
Blonde -
Robert E. Homans
Desk Sergeant -
Arthur Hoyt
Witness -
Nat Pendleton
Abe Gorman -
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Charles Sullivan
Policeman -
Morgan Wallace
Police Captain -
Clarence H. Wilson
Coroner -
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Fitzpatrick
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Harlow plays the quintessential gangster's moll.
Walter Huston and Jean Harlow make the screen sizzle.
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Foreign Titles
- Beast of the City (1932) (DE)
- Beast of the City (1932) (UK)
