Law of the Underworld

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Chester Morris and Anne Shirley in Law of the Underworld (1938)

A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution.A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution.A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution.

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5.4/10

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Chester Morris

Gene Fillmore

Anne Shirley

Annabelle Porter

Eduardo Ciannelli

Rocky

Walter Abel

Warren Rogers

Richard Bond

Tommy Brown

Lee Patrick

Dorothy Palmer

Paul Guilfoyle

Batsy

Frank M. Thomas

Police Captain Gargan

Eddie Acuff

Bill

Vinton Hayworth

Eddie
(as Jack Arnold)

Jack Carson

Johnny

Paul Stanton

Barton

Joseph E. Bernard

Frank - Headwaiter
(uncredited)

Stanley Blystone

Policeman
(uncredited)

Richard Cramer

Policeman
(uncredited)

Bud Geary

Policeman
(uncredited)

Chuck Hamilton

Policeman
(uncredited)

Cecil Kellaway

Phillips - Gene's Butler
(uncredited)

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Trivia
The $136 that's stolen would equate to around $3,042 in 2024.

Goofs
Gene (Chester Morris) puts down his cue stick and takes a cigarette case out of his inside jacket pocket twice between shots.

Connections
Version of The Pay-Off (1930)

Soundtracks
Yours Alone
(uncredited)
Composer unknown
Sung by Lee Patrick at the nightclub

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3/10

What A Jackpot

Law Of The Underworld contains some nice performances by Chester Morris, Lee Patrick, and Eduardo Ciannelli and sad that they are wasted in a muddle of a film. Quite frankly this thing is unbelievable.

Richard Bond and Anne Shirley are a pair of engaged folks who apparently have no street smarts and flash a roll around some gangsters. One of them Eduardo Ciannelli is a particularly murderous individual who hasn't been getting his financial due from the big boss Chester Morris. Still this big time heist guy robbing these kids for walking around money is really dumb.

But that's nothing to how dumb Shirley and Bond are who decide to stick up the stick up men and get their $136.00 nest egg back. Morris is in the room now and he overpowers them. But he decides he can use these two as a kind of shill for his next job which is jewelry store robbery.

It all of course both goes wrong and the film keeps going downhill from there. Lee Patrick is a nightclub singer and a really bad dame who's been two timing Morris with Ciannelli. Walter Abel repeats the role he had in Warner Brothers Racketbusters as a Thomas E. Dewey type special prosecutor.

The story is pretty unbelievable, why didn't those two young people just go to the cops and make a police report of the robbery? I guarantee you if you see Law Of The Underworld you won't figure it out either.