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MGM's The Beast of the City (1932), most hard-edged and violent of all 30s gangster movies. Based on a W. R. Burnett story. Walter Huston is chilling as the obsessed cop. Jean Harlow, unconstrained by the Production Code, sizzles as a bad girl.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-beast-of-city-1932.html
@d4doome I had never heard of this film, and after reading your review about MGM's reaction, I understand why. Certainly not Louis B Mayer's cup of tea. Sounds like a very interesting take on the gangster films of the early '30s. I shall have to watch it sometime.
@michaelmeckler There were interesting things going on at MGM in the early 30s, with Irving Thalberg and Louis B. Mayer not seeing eye to eye. So many of MGM's most interesting movies of that period were hated by Mayer and as a result those movies were no properly promoted by the studio.