Big Town Czar

May 3, 1939

1h 6m

★ 0.0

DICTATOR... Of The Sinister Empire Behind The Big City's Bright Lights!

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.

Genres

Mystery

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Big Town Czar Trailers

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Cast

Phil Daley

Barton MacLane

Danny Daley

Tom Brown

Susan Warren

Eve Arden

Mike Luger

Jack La Rue

Sid Travers

Frank Jenks

Paul Burgess

Walter Woolf King

Pa Daley

Oscar O'Shea

Ma Daley

Esther Dale

Punchy

Horace McMahon

Narrator / Newspaper Columnist

Ed Sullivan

Real Estate Man

Irving Bacon

Thompson

Heinie Conklin

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