Big Town Czar
“DICTATOR... Of The Sinister Empire Behind The Big City's Bright Lights!”
1939•NR•1h 6m•7.0•Released
Mystery
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.
Director
Arthur Lubin
Writer
Edmund L. Hartmann
Studio
Universal Pictures
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
Clyde Dilson
Morgan
James Flavin
George Mitchell
Jennifer Gray
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