Big Town Czar (1939)
DICTATOR... Of The Sinister Empire Behind The Big City's Bright Lights!
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.
- Date of release
- 1939-05-03
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 6m
- Genres
- Mystery
- Director
- Arthur Lubin
Casting
- Barton MacLane — Phil Daley
- Tom Brown — Danny Daley
- Eve Arden — Susan Warren
- Jack La Rue — Mike Luger
- Frank Jenks — Sid Travers
- Walter Woolf King — Paul Burgess
- Oscar O'Shea — Pa Daley
- Esther Dale — Ma Daley
- Horace McMahon — Punchy
- Ed Sullivan — Narrator / Newspaper Columnist
- Irving Bacon — Real Estate Man
- Heinie Conklin — Thompson
Interesting facts
Big Town Czar is a 1939 American mystery film directed by Arthur Lubin starring Barton MacLane and Tom Brown.
Production
The film was based on a story by Ed Sullivan. Universal bought it in August 1938. Barton MacLane was cast in December.
Lubin was attached to the film in February 1939.
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