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5.9/10   55 votes
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Writers:
William A. Ullman Jr. (story)
Wells Root (screenplay)
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Release Date:
24 March 1939 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Beery as the law . . . blasting his way in thundering thrills more
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Maddening von Sternberg more (3 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Wallace Beery ... Sgt. Shaun Madden
Tom Brown ... Albert 'Al' Boylan, Jr.
Alan Curtis ... Dennis Madden
Laraine Day ... Eileen Daly
Fay Holden ... Mary Madden
Marc Lawrence ... 'Piggy' Ceders
Marion Martin ... Charlotte LePage
David Gorcey ... Punchy
Donald Haines ... Milton
Ben Welden ... Henchman Stemmy
Etta McDaniel ... Dove (Madden's maid)
John Kelly ... Henchman Nero
Horace McMahon ... Philadelphia (as Horace MacMahon)
Neil Fitzgerald ... Casey (police broadcaster)
Dickie Jones ... Dennis Madden, as a boy
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Additional Details

Runtime:
80 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Charles Trowbridge replaced George Irving as the Commissioner for the retakes. more

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9 out of 12 people found the following review useful.
Maddening von Sternberg, 13 October 2003
7/10
Author: boblipton from New York City

Typical Wallace Beery feature rendered weird and beautiful by von Sternberg direction. Although only Beery gives a good performance -- slower and much more introspective than his usual Long John Silver of this era --the von Sternberg visual touches -- the odd camera angle that brings out the lines on Beery's face, or the macrame drapes that cast shadows on the juveniles -- make this a deeply disturbing movie, like Tarrantino directing an episode of Sesame Street.

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