6,000 Enemies

19391939
PassedPassed
1h 2m

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.

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Director
- George B. Seitz
Writers
- Bertram Millhauser(screen play)
- Wilmon Menard(based upon a story by)
- Leo L. Stanley(based upon a story by)
Stars

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Director
- George B. Seitz
Writers
- Bertram Millhauser(screen play)
- Wilmon Menard(based upon a story by)
- Leo L. Stanley(based upon a story by)
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A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.

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Genres
Certificate
- Passed
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Trivia
This film received its television premiere in Los Angeles Monday 14 January 1957 on KTTV (Channel 11); it first aired in Philadelphia 5 March 1957 on WFIL (Channel 6), in New Haven CT 11 March 1957 on WNHC (Channel 8), in Altoona PA 21 March 1957 on WFBG (Channel 10), in Chicago 5 April 1957 on WBBM (Channel 2), in Minneapolis 16 August 1957 on KMGM (Channel 9) and in Miami 20 August 1957 on WCKT (Channel 7); it was first shown in San Francisco 28 December 1958 on KGO-TV (Channel 7), but there is no record of its having been telecast in New York City until 22 February 1962 on WCBS (Channel 2).

Quotes
Steve Donegan: [sits down to eat his lunch] Ohhh boy, look at that- liver and onions!
'Wibbie' Yern: Wait- you can't eat onions. Another hour you'll be leaning over the jury box.
Steve Donegan: [looks down at plate in disappointment, puts down knife and fork] You're right.
'Wibbie' Yern: Boy, what a narrow squeak.
[takes Steve's plate]
'Wibbie' Yern: Lucky for *you*, *I* was here.
[sits down to eat]
Steve Donegan: Yeah...

Connections
Features The Big House (1930)

Soundtracks
A Hot Time in the Old Town
(1896) (uncredited)
Music by Theodore A. Metz
Lyrics by Joe Hayden
In the score during the election montage

Top review

6/10

Seitz, Seitz & Pidgeon

Walter Pidgeon is a tough and honest D. A. He gets framed for bribery, convicted and sent to prison, while his brother, John Arledge works to figure out who framed him. Pidgeon has other problems, to wit the many convicts whom he convicted and sent to the pen.

MGM frequently claimed they produced no B movies, but this one has all the hallmarks, including direction by the always competent George Seitz, and camerawork by John Seitz. That's not to say it didn't have the MGM gloss on it, and the sequence in which Pidgeon earned the respect of his fellow cons by getting into the boxing ring with Nat Pendleton and being pounded into unconsciousness has a crowd of hundreds dressed in prison greys watching the fight; let's just say that an MGM programmer had the budget of an A picture at Columbia or Universal, and showed the money on the screen.

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