A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.
Louis Calhern
- Christopher Bruno
- (as Louis Calhearn)
Inez Courtney
- Susan Bibens - Telephone Operator
- (uncredited)
Oliver Cross
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
Max Davidson
- Abe Cohen - Tailor
- (uncredited)
Chester Gan
- Alpha Delta - Houston's Servant
- (uncredited)
Joseph W. Girard
- Nichols
- (uncredited)
Harrison Greene
- Al - the Bartender
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaOne scene takes place in from of a theatre where posters for The Vampire Bat (1933) are on display. "The Vampire Bat" was one of Majestic's biggest hits, and remains the most widely seen of its existing films. It had gone into release about three months before the release of this film.
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Lionel Houston: The public looks to the law for protection from these leeches who've chiselled and gouged and sweated them out of their hard-earned dollars, and given them nothing but death and misery in return. If I had my way I'd line 'em all up against a wall and shoot 'em. But as long as the law doesn't permit that, I can at least send them away for as long as the law *does* permit.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Cinemassacre's Monster Madness: The Screaming Skull (2010)
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Blue Chip Wall Street Crooks
Before signing with Warner Brothers and after getting his big break with his screen debut in The Front Page, Pat O'Brien appeared in a variety of films of varying quality for different studios. This one is for poverty row Majestic Pictures and for a poverty row film it boasts an impressive cast. But I can safely say that everyone here has done better work in their career. Mind you this is a cast that includes Evelyn Brent, Mary Brian, Neil Hamilton, Louis Calhern and J. Carrol Naish.
District Attorney Wallis Clark who is investigating a crooked stock scheme is set up in a love nest by Evelyn Brent and murdered by trigger man Naish. O'Brien is a crime reporter with all kinds of friends in low places and Hamilton is Clark's upright assistant who succeeds him. But both had a high regard for Clark and both want justice for his daughter Mary Brian and both kind of like her.
Turns out some of O'Brien's low place friends are indeed responsible. But they work for some blue chip Wall Street crooks. In 1933 blue chip Wall Street crooks were very popular villains.
The World Gone Mad should have been a better film. Except for the end which has a great climax where the blue chip crooks get their's, this is a sluggish film. Again at a major studio this would have been a better film.
District Attorney Wallis Clark who is investigating a crooked stock scheme is set up in a love nest by Evelyn Brent and murdered by trigger man Naish. O'Brien is a crime reporter with all kinds of friends in low places and Hamilton is Clark's upright assistant who succeeds him. But both had a high regard for Clark and both want justice for his daughter Mary Brian and both kind of like her.
Turns out some of O'Brien's low place friends are indeed responsible. But they work for some blue chip Wall Street crooks. In 1933 blue chip Wall Street crooks were very popular villains.
The World Gone Mad should have been a better film. Except for the end which has a great climax where the blue chip crooks get their's, this is a sluggish film. Again at a major studio this would have been a better film.
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