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Dutch's ex-girlfriend Lily Duran, jealous over his attentions to another woman, notifies the antiseptic company about the deception, and is murdered by Dutch. Without their key witness, the company is forced to drop their lawsuit against Jimmy. Now beholden to Dutch, he is forced to make fake
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said, " particular virtue . . . is that it is specific and believable in its description of the felonious behavior involved in the racket. Thus it maintains a moderate sum of interest and excitement in the face of a routine assortment of gang-film impedimenta."
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Jimmy seeks vengeance against Dutch, but Sheffner, who formulated the antiseptic Jimmy manufactured, shoots Dutch. Jimmy confesses everything to the
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calls it an "overblown crime melodrama" and adds, "the material stretches believability at every plot turn."
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companies at regular prices. When Dutch asks him to copy the formula for a popular brand of
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and is exonerated, allowing him and Norma to return to life as they once knew it.
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Jimmy Morrell and Norma Nelson who plan to wed as soon as their neighborhood
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that can be made cheaply and then sold in the bottles and jars of reputable
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begins to show a profit. The opportunity arises when former
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Dutch Barnes offers Jimmy a job duplicating name brand
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John Francis Dillon
Niven Busch
Samuel Bischoff
Charles Farrell
Bette Davis
Ricardo Cortez
Glenda Farrell
Sidney Hickox
Leo F. Forbstein
Warner Bros.
pre-Code
crime
drama film
Charles Farrell
Bette Davis
John Francis Dillon
Niven Busch
Samuel G. Engel
Ricardo Cortez
Glenda Farrell
pharmacy
bootlegger
toothpaste
cosmetics
pharmaceutical
antiseptic
digitalis
district attorney
Charles Farrell

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