Big Town Czar

Big Town Czar

66 mins | Mystery | May 3, 1939

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.

Big Town Czar

66 mins | Mystery | May 3, 1939

Big Town Czar
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.
Producers Universal Pictures
Original title Big Town Czar
Directors Arthur Lubin
Writers Ed Sullivan, Edmund L. Hartmann

Cast

Barton MacLane

as Phil Daley

Tom Brown

as Danny Daley

Eve Arden

as Susan Warren

Jack La Rue

as Mike Luger

Frank Jenks

as Sid Travers

Walter Woolf King

as Paul Burgess

Oscar O'Shea

as Pa Daley

Esther Dale

as Ma Daley

Horace McMahon

as Punchy

Ed Sullivan

as Narrator / Newspaper Columnist

Irving Bacon

as Real Estate Man

Heinie Conklin

as Thompson

Clyde Dilson

as Morgan

James Flavin

as George Mitchell

Jennifer Gray

as Telephone Operator

Eddie Hall

as Taxi Cab Driver

Gordon Jones

as Chuck Hardy

Donald Kirke

as Bit Role

Jimmie Lucas

as Stooge

Jerry Marlowe

as Nick

LeRoy Mason

as Poker Game Robber

Frank Melton

as Hotel Clerk

Miki Morita

as Butler

Raymond Parker

as Student

Buster Phelps

as Boy

Oscar Polk

as Arthur, Harlem Numbers Man

Cully Richards

as Herman

Frances Robinson

as Florist Shop Employee

Don Rowan

as Stranger

John Sheehan

as Ray Norman

Martin Turner

as Mickey

Carleton Young

as Thompson, Luger Henchman

Walter Young

as Lawyer