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U.S., 1932
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Marion Burns, J. Farrell McDonald, George Walsh
Approx. 79 mins. 

Cop Spencer Tracy’s slanging matches with hash-slinger Joan Bennett, spiced with a hilarious parody of O’Neill’s Strange Interlude, are interrupted when director Walsh’s brother blasts his way into a bank.

Reviews

“The quintessential gum-chewing, fast-talking romance comedy of the period.”
 – Elliott Stein

“Walsh’s sharp-tongued and rowdy characters are played by a tangy and exuberant deck of character actors... Walsh was a master of the talking picture.”
 – Richard Brody, The New Yorker

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