Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
- gangster
- anti hero
- tragedy
- organized crime
- best friend
- juvenile delinquent
- pre-code
- grapefruit
- amused
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Donald Cook — Mike Powers
- Leslie Fenton — Samuel 'Nails' Nathan
- Beryl Mercer — Ma Powers
- Robert Emmett O'Connor — Paddy Ryan
- Murray Kinnell — Putty Nose
- Clark Burroughs — Dutch (uncredited)
- Mae Clarke — Kitty (uncredited)
- Frank Coghlan Jr. — Tom as a Boy (uncredited)
- George Daly — Machine Gunner (uncredited)
- Frankie Darro — Matt as a Boy (uncredited)
- Snitz Edwards — Miller (uncredited)
- Directed
- William A. Wellman
- Written
- Kubec Glasmon, John Bright
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 393 ratings
- Studio
- The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Bros. Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
