67%User score 67 percent
Cry of the City
1948 · Crime · Drama
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25 votes
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
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CinemaSerf
October 3, 2025
With Chicago effectively a lawless city controlled by warring gangsters fighting over their turf and their lucrative prohibition income, opportunistic “Louie” (Lew Ayres) sees an opportunity to centralise things. A meeting, a few machine guns, and some sheer brass neck soon sees him running the racketeers and presiding over an unusually peaceful city. Then he marries his sweetheart “Doris” (Dorothy Matthews) and has…
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