Assessment:
Obviously modelled on Al Capone, with an incestuous sister thrown in, this was perhaps the most vivid film of the gangster cycle, and its revelling in its own sins was not obscured by the subtitle, The Shame of a Nation.
Significant production contributions:
d Howard Hawks ph Lee Garmes, L. W. O'Connell
Significant performances:
Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft
