The Beast of the City

1932
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1h 26m

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Jean Harlow and Wallace Ford in The Beast of the City (1932)

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.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
(uncredited)

Elmer Ballard

Mayor
(uncredited)

Sammy Blum

Turnkey
(uncredited)

Edward Brophy

Police Dispatcher
(uncredited)

Ed Cassidy

Policeman #5 on Telephone
(uncredited)

Allan Cavan

Pat - Car 47 Driver
(uncredited)

Eddy Chandler

Joel - Policeman Outside Car 47
(uncredited)

Director
- Charles Brabin
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Trivia
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!"

Goofs
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.

Quotes
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!

Crazy credits
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

Connections
Featured in Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell (1993)

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

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7/10

Harlow was Red Hot in 1932

The blond bomb shell, Jean Harlow,(Daisy Stevens),"Reckless",'35 gave an outstanding performance and some of her outfits showed off all the wonderful things males love in a woman during the 1930's and still DO ! Walter Houston,(Capt. Jim Fitzpatrick),"The Great Sinner",'49, played a rough and tough Irish Captain who did not mess around with the mob and especially Jean Hersholt, who really did not fit very well in this role. Jean Hersholt played very few roles as the bad guy during the 1920's and 30's and was a good actor in the radio days. J. Carrol Naish,(Pietro Cholo),"The Beast With Five Fingers",'46, was very young and gave a great supporting role on his way to a fantastic career on the Silver Screen. The ending of this film is great and I thought it was very well directed and produced.