Quick Millions (1931)
HE GOT HIS! You'll get yours!
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
- Date of release
- 1931-04-17
- TMDB
- 7.3 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Director
- Rowland Brown
Casting
- Spencer Tracy — Daniel J. 'Bugs' Raymond
- Marguerite Churchill — Dorothy Stone
- Sally Eilers — Daisy De Lisle
- Bob Burns — 'Arkansas' Smith (as Robert Burns)
- John Wray — Kenneth Stone
- Warner Richmond — 'Nails' Markey
- George Raft — Jimmy Kirk
- John Swor — Contractor
- Leon Ames — Hood
- Oscar Apfel — Police Detective Capp (uncredited)
- Edwin Argus — Testimonial Dinner Guest (uncredited)
- Ward Bond — Cop in montage (uncredited)
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Quick Millions is a 1931 pre-Code crime film directed by Rowland Brown and starring Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers, and featuring George Raft as the sidekick with a solo eccentric dance performance.
Production
Rowland Brown had wanted to break into Hollywood but not succeeded until he sold Doorway to Hell. He then wrote Skyline and persuaded Fox to let him direct. The film was also known as Hoodlum.
The film gave an early role to George Raft who had been spotted dancing by director Rowland Brown. According to the Los Angeles Times "Brown was looking for menace with sex appeal" and Raft was filming the day after Brown first saw him.
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