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16 September 1933 (USA) morePlot:
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
entertaining AND stupid! moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Bette Davis | ... | Norma Roberts |
 | Lewis Stone | ... | Captain Webb (as Lewis S. Stone) |
| Pat O'Brien | ... | Detective Butch Saunders |
| Glenda Farrell | ... | Belle Howard Saunders |
| Allen Jenkins | ... | Det. Joe Musik |
| Ruth Donnelly | ... | Gwendolyn 'Pete' Harris |
 | Hugh Herbert | ... | Detective Hank Slade |
| Alan Dinehart | ... | Therme Roberts |
| Marjorie Gateson | ... | Mrs. Paul |
| Tad Alexander | ... | Caesar Paul |
| Noel Francis | ... | Alice Crane |
| Wallis Clark | ... | Mr. Paul |
| Adrian Morris | ... | Detective Irish Conlin |
| Clay Clement | ... | Burton C. Kingman |
| Henry Kolker | ... | Mr. Theodore Arno |
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73 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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USA:Approved (PCA #2622)Filming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USAMOVIEmeter: 
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This movie really can only be enjoyed if the viewers turn off their brain. That's because although the movie is unique and diverting, at times the plot and writing is abysmal. The plot has holes and improbabilities galore and the character played by Pat O'Brien must be most the stupidest and most unbelievably violent cop of the 1930s. If policemen had REALLY been this dumb, I don't know how we ever could have made it through the decade! Plus, if you combine all his civil rights violations (kicking in doors without warrants, arresting people recklessly and savagely beating his bigamist wife at the end of the film), you get a truly annoying character.
However, if you turn off your brain and watch the film JUST for its entertainment value, it's pretty good stuff. Plus, while it didn't do a lot to make Bette Davis a star, it did give her top billing AND her character was a lot better written than O'Brien's.
Entertaining AND stupid--that about says it all!