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Director:
Alexander Hall
Writers:
John Lee Mahin (writer)
Karl Tunberg (screenplay)
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Release Date:
6 June 1950 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime more
Tagline:
The Love Story of a Mug!
Plot:
In 1928, Big Ed Hanley (Paul Douglas), boss of a gang of Chicago racketeers, has money and power, but he is bored... more | add synopsis
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Paul Douglas has tailor-made role in fluffy comedy... more (3 total)

Cast

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Paul Douglas ... E.L. 'Big Ed' Hanley
Jean Peters ... Ruth Manning

Cesar Romero ... Pretty Willie Wetzchahofsky
Keenan Wynn ... Bugsy Welch
Joan Davis ... Mamie Sage
Arthur Treacher ... Quentin, Hanley's Butler
Peter Price ... Harry the Kid Jr.
Jay C. Flippen ... Biff Sage
Barry Kelley ... Detective Charlie
Leon Belasco ... François Ducray aka Frenchy
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Dorothy Neumann ... Undetermined Role (scenes deleted)
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Runtime:
86 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
Company:
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation more

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A remake of Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941) in which 'Cesar Romero' had the lead role, while Sheldon Leonard played the character that Romero plays here. more
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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Paul Douglas has tailor-made role in fluffy comedy..., 24 February 2007
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Author: Neil Doyle from U.S.A.

LOVE THAT BRUTE is a comedy tailor-made for the unique talents of PAUL DOUGLAS as a soft-hearted gangster with designs on a pretty governess (JEAN PETERS) who's willing to take on the job of supervising his rebellious son (PETER PRICE), actually a relative Douglas gets to pose as his son so that he'll have an excuse to hire Peters. Price gets the most laughs with his tough guy lines, sounding an awful lot like "Lampwick" to Pinnochio.

For added amusement, JOAN DAVIS, ARTHUR TREACHER and CESAR ROMERO have some snappy bits of business--although the script never gives any of them the chance to really do their stuff.

There's some nice chemistry between Douglas and Peters, but they don't make a believable romantic pair and this has its drawbacks since the whole story concerns Douglas and his obsession for the pretty governess with show biz ambitions. He uses his influence to get her a job as a singer in a nightclub he owns--and the resultant musical number, while not exactly perfect, shows that Peters had more sides to her personality than the role really suggests. Good choreography makes the sequence amusing and pleasant enough to watch.

Biggest scene stealer is Price, with some sharp grown-up observations to go along with his tough guy facade. Story develops at a fast pace and leads to a good payoff for crime boss Romero revealed to be the brute responsible for a number of gangland deaths.

Summing up: Good mixture of comedy and gangster crime circa 1920s Chicago.

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