Il pericolo pubblico n. 1

Titolo originale: The Beast of the City

1932
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1h 26min

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Jean Harlow and Wallace Ford in Il pericolo pubblico n. 1 (1932)

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaPolice Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.

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Walter Huston

Jim Fitzpatrick

Jean Harlow

Daisy Stevens

Wallace Ford

Ed Fitzpatrick

Jean Hersholt

Sam Belmonte

Dorothy Peterson

Mary Fitzpatrick

Tully Marshall

Michaels

John Miljan

District Attorney

Emmett Corrigan

Chief of Police Burton

Warner Richmond

Sandy Roth

J. Carrol Naish

Pietro Cholo

Eddie Baker

Detective
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Elmer Ballard

Mayor
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Sammy Blum

Turnkey
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Edward Brophy

Police Dispatcher
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Ed Cassidy

Policeman #5 on Telephone
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Allan Cavan

Pat - Car 47 Driver
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Eddy Chandler

Joel - Policeman Outside Car 47
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Regia
- Charles Brabin
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Mickey Rooney had just turned 11 years old when he played Walter Huston's young son in his first full-length sound feature film. His character's name is also "Mickey," and his first line is, "Say, those don't look like pancakes!"

Blooper
When Ed and Daisy first kiss, in a medium shot, he's holding her head in the crook of his left arm, and her right had is on his side. In the next closer shot, his arm is down and her right hand is up on his lapel.

Citazioni
Daisy Stevens, aka Mildred Beaumont: [Ed grabs her arm tightly] Say! That hurts a little bit.
Det. Ed Fitzpatrick: And you don't like to be hurt, do you?
Daisy Stevens, aka Mildred Beaumont: Oh, I don't know.
[Suggestively]
Daisy Stevens, aka Mildred Beaumont: Kinda fun sometimes if it's done in the right spirit.
Det. Ed Fitzpatrick: [Pushes her away] Get the beer!

Curiosità sui crediti
Opening card: Instead of the glorification of cowardly gangsters, we need the glorification of policemen who do their duty and give their lives in public protection. If the police had the vigilant universal backing of the public opinion in their communities, if they had the implacable support of the prosecuting authorities and the courts, I am convinced that our police would stamp out the excessive crime, which had disgraced some of our great cities. ---- President Herbert Hoover

Connessioni
Featured in Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell (1993)

Colonne sonore
Chopsticks
(1877) (uncredited)
Traditional piano tune
Music by Euphemia Allen
Played on piano by Betty Mae Crane and Beverly Crane

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The Skirt That Did Them In

The Beast Of The City finds Walter Huston cast as a crusading and honest cop, possibly too rigidly honest. His character is a whole lot like Kirk Douglas's detective in Detective Story that would come out a generation later.

The film also borrows a lot from westerns at the time. Huston's unknown western city is ruled by gangster Jean Hersholt who is apparently untouchable as far as the law is concerned. A whole lot like real life gangsters Al Capone and Lucky Luciano who were coming into prominence.

Huston's family life is secure enough, wife Dorothy Peterson, a few kids among them a young Mickey Rooney. He also has his younger and weaker brother Wallace Ford living with them. Ford's got a real good deal, no rent and he apparently chases a lot of skirts. That proves to be his downfall and eventually Huston's.

The skirt that did them in belonged to Jean Harlow. Jean was never a better mantrap in her career than she is The Beast Of The City. Wallace Ford turns out to be putty in her hands.

Also note another good performance in The Beast Of The City is that of Tully Marshall who plays Hersholt's lawyer. The word shyster was invented for lawyers like Marshall, but he's good to have on your side especially if you're guilty as sin.

The climax is an unforgettable one and one more typical to a western than a modern drama. It's what makes The Beast Of The City a classic that is too rarely seen today.