Hard Guy

Oct 17, 1941

1h 7m

★ 5.0

An easy trigger finger kept the glamor girl in line...They'll marry any young fool who has the price of a fifty-thousand dollar annulment in his pocket!

Overview

Investigators crack down on a gang of nightclub con artists that has been victimizing wealthy bachelors.

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Crime

Production Companies

PRC

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Cast

Vic Monroe

Jack La Rue

Julie Cavanaugh

Mary Healy

Steve Randall

Kane Richmond

Goldie Duvall

Iris Adrian

Doris Starr (as Gayle Mollott)

Gayle Mellott

Tex Cassidy

Jack Mulhall

Anthony Tremaine Jr.

Howard Banks

Ben Sherwood

Ben Taggart

Anthony Tremaine, Sr.

C. Montague Shaw

Mona Day

Inna Gest

Dick Clayton

Arthur Gardner

Rhumba Orchestra Leader (as Eddie Durant)

Eduardo Durant

The stage of this work is Saitama, a suburb of Tokyo in the early Heisei period. Immediately after the bubble burst gangster countermeasures law, there were gangsters who defended the last territory and young people who freely controlled the city. The youth conflict escalated day by day and became a force that surpassed the yakuza, and the runaways were sent to juvenile prisons one after another, where exclusive rules awaited.

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