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6.2/10
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Racketeers flood the market with counterfeit cosmetics and drugs, causing some tragedies.Racketeers flood the market with counterfeit cosmetics and drugs, causing some tragedies.Racketeers flood the market with counterfeit cosmetics and drugs, causing some tragedies.
G. Pat Collins
- Gyp
- (as George Pat Collins)
Ben Hendricks Jr.
- Spike
- (as Ben Hendricks)
Oscar Apfel
- Digitalis Doctor
- (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
- Third Drug Store Proprietor
- (uncredited)
Matt Briggs
- Robert J. Wilbur
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFinal film of director John Francis Dillon.
- GoofsWhen Jimmy and Higgins are fighting in the car, Higgins' position starts off behind the driver and ends up behind the passenger seat. However in the next cut when the fighting is shown through the car mirror, Wiggins's position is the opposite of how it should appear in the mirror.
- Quotes
Dutch Barnes: Lefty, what's our racket?
Lefty: Beer!
Dutch Barnes: Beer, huh, you're five minutes late. We're going into the drug business.
Lefty: Not me. I got a brother doing twenty years for going into the drug business and all they found on him was two decks of coke.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits are shown over a background of coins and bills. Then the lead actors are shown above their written names.
- ConnectionsReferenced in This Is Your Life: Bette Davis (1971)
- SoundtracksFree
(uncredited)
Lyrics by Edward Heyman
Music by Dana Suesse
Played during the opening photo credits and often in the score
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EARLY bette davis
Stars a young Bette Davis as Norma, girlfriend to Jimmy (Charles Farrell). Jimmy runs the drugstore that the gangsters want to take over. Jimmy doesn't want to sell, but the gangsters want him to start making cheap knockoffs of major pharma products. what could go wrong? co-stars Glenda Farrell (Lil, and Torchy Blane !) and Ricardo Cortez. and of course, the nasal character actor Allen Jenkins. he was in every single gangster movie made in the 1930s and 1940s... sometimes the good guy, sometimes the bad guy. John Wray would die pretty young at 53, but he made some big films in the 1930s. it's a snapshot of the rough and tumble mobster films of the depression, complete with a chick-fight between the two ladies, Lil and Norma. Directed by John Dillon, his last film; died of a heart attack at 49. From First National. He had also directed the 1930 version of Kismet. Shakedown is pretty good.. some huge hollywood names in the early days of talkies. It's in great condition, considering it's from 1934; it must have been restored.
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- ksf-2
- Nov 10, 2019
Details
- Runtime1 hour 4 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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