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Roger Quinn pressures the murdered man's partner into testifying, but Carston learns of the plan and the witness is murdered and Carston is acquitted. Julie is arrested as a material witness and decodes the books, but is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen before she can testify. Bill tricks Carston into
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are kept in a code known only to his secretary, Julie Gardner. When she witnesses the murder of a man who double-crossed her boss, Bill begs her to quit her job, but Julie realizes she knows too much for Carston to let her go.
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department, his comments remained unpublished. The film, featuring a law enforcement officer triumphing over gangsters was released by Warners in the same year as
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taking him where Julie is being held, and the police trail them. A shootout follows and Julie is rescued. Her testimony sends Carston to
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The federal government seeks to imprison gangsters due to their financial crimes, tax evasion and violations of
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New York newspaperman Martin Mooney's story also served as the basis of the 1940 Warner Bros. release
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that the picture was "a poor, paltry thing, unbelievable and unconvincing." At the behest of the
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by Laird Doyle and Abem Finkel is based on a story by Martin Mooney. The film was produced by
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compromised by allowing it to remain intact but without what they considered offensive
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called the film a "crisp, fast moving and thoroughly entertaining
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regulations. Newspaper reporter Bill Bradford is deputized as a
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felt was crucial to the plot to be cut in its entirety. The
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William Keighley
Laird Doyle
Abem Finkel
Martin Mooney
Samuel Bischoff
Bette Davis
George Brent
Ricardo Cortez
Sidney Hickox
Clarence Kolster
Bernhard Kaun
Cosmopolitan Productions
Warner Bros
crime
drama film
William Keighley
Bette Davis
George Brent
screenplay
Cosmopolitan Productions
Warner Bros
Internal Revenue Service
treasury agent
Internal Revenue Bureau
gangster
Al Capone
tax evasion
ledgers
District Attorney

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