King of the Underworld

Throwback to early 30s crime dramas
"King of the Underworld" is a 1939 crime data based on an original screenplay by famed crime writer W. R. Burnett ("Little Caesar", "Beast of the City", "High Sierra", "This Gun for Hire", "Asphalt Jungle", "Scarface"). The plot borrows heavily from Warner Brothers "Dr. Socrates" (1935) with Paul Muni as well as "The Petrified Forest" (1936) with Humphrey Bogart.

In a complicated plot, a mob surgeon is killed and his innocent wife (Kay Francis) under suspicion gets involved with the mob boss (Humphrey Bogart), a man who fancies himself a modern day Napolean.

Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) usually played second fiddle to Edward G. Robinson ("Kid Galahad", "Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse") and James Cagney ("The Roaring Twenties", "The Oklahoma Kid", "Angels with Dirty Faces", "Dead End"), but here he gets his first starring role, even though it is a B film. Only two years later, in 1941 he starred in "High Sierra" and "The Maltese Falcon" and he became a big name star,...

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