Big Town Czar (1939)

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Country: USA
Genres: Mystery
Release: 1939-05-11
Director: Arthur Lubin
Writers: Edmund L. Hartmann , Ed Sullivan
Language: English
Stars: Barton MacLane , Tom Brown , Eve Arden , Jack La Rue , Frank Jenks , Walter Woolf King , Oscar O’Shea , Esther Dale , Horace McMahon , Ed Sullivan , Ed Sullivan
Runtime: 66 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: To telos enos gangster (Greece) , El rey de los gangsters (Mexico) , A Ferro e Fogo (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Big Town Czar (United Kingdom) , Big Town Czar , O Rei dos Gangsters (Brazil) , Fighting the Racketeers (United States of America) , Big Town Czar (United States of America)
Plot: When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
IMDB:tt0031098