Let 'Em Have It

1935 film by Sam Wood
  • 1935 (1935)
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Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 American gangster film directed by Sam Wood. The film was also known under the title False Faces in the United Kingdom and The Legion of Valour in Australia.[1][2]

Plot

An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.

Cast

  • Richard Arlen as Mal Stevens
  • Virginia Bruce as Eleanor Spencer
  • Alice Brady as Aunt Ethel
  • Bruce Cabot as Joe Keefer
  • Harvey Stephens as Van Rensseler
  • Eric Linden as Buddy Spencer
  • Joyce Compton as Barbara
  • Gordon Jones as Tex
  • J. Farrell MacDonald as Mr. Keefer
  • Bodil Rosing as Mrs. Keefer
  • Paul Stanton as Department Chief
  • Hale Hamilton as Ex-Senator Reilly
  • Robert Emmett O'Connor as Police Captain
  • Dorothy Appleby as Lola
  • Barbara Pepper as Milly
  • Paul Fix as Sam

Production

The film was shot at Pathe Studios.[3] It was one of a series of movies that came out around this time about "G-Men".[4] with the film giving the audience a look an FBI Headquarters and the training of a Special Agent.[5]

References

  1. ^ Let 'Em Have It at the TCM Movie Database
  2. ^ Newspaper Article at Trove
  3. ^ "Mystery to Be Screened: While Patient Slept to Open Thursday". Los Angeles Times. Mar 4, 1935. p. 19.
  4. ^ Woolfenden, John R. (Apr 14, 1935). "Close Finish Looms in Race Between Studios' "G-Men": Five Pictures, All Dealing With Exploits of Federal Agents, About to Hit Screen Together, Start New Cycle Close Finish Seen in Race". Los Angeles Times. p. A1.
  5. ^ Powers, Richard Gid (1 Nov 1983). G-men, Hoover's FBI in American Popular Culture. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 86.

External links

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