Big Town Czar (1939)

7.0/10 66 min Mystery

Overview

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.

Cast

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

James Flavin

George Mitchell

Eddie Hall

Taxi Cab Driver

Gordon Jones

Chuck Hardy

Donald Kirke

Bit Role

Jerry Marlowe

Nick

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