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Director
  
George W. Hill

Screenplay
  
Frances Marion

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

6.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Crime, Drama, Romance

Producer
  
Irving Thalberg

Language
  
English

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Writer
  
Frances Marion (story)

Release date
  
April 18, 1931 (1931-04-18)

Directors
  
George W. Hill, George King

Cast
  
Wallace Beery
(Louis 'Louie' Scorpio),
Lewis Stone
(Richard 'Newt' Newton),
Johnny Mack Brown
(Hank Rogers (as John Mack Brown)),
Jean Harlow
(Anne Courtland),
Marjorie Rambeau
(Peaches),
Paul Hurst
(Nick 'the Gouger' Mizoski)

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,
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The Secret Six is a fast-paced 1931 American Pre-Code crime film starring Wallace Beery as "Slaughterhouse Scorpio", a character very loosely based on Al Capone, and featuring Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Marjorie Rambeau and Ralph Bellamy. The film was written by Frances Marion and directed by George W. Hill for MGM.

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Plot

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Bootlegger Johnny Franks recruits a crude working man called Louis "Louie" Scorpio as part of the gang of mob boss Richard "Newt" Newton. Scorpio eventually becomes head of the organization himself. Then he is prosecuted by a secret group of six masked crime fighters, aided by newspaper reporters Carl Luckner and Hank Rogers.

Cast (in credits order)

  • Wallace Beery as Louis 'Louie' Scorpio
  • Lewis Stone as Richard 'Newt' Newton
  • John Mack Brown as Hank Rogers
  • Jean Harlow as Anne Courtland
  • Marjorie Rambeau as Peaches
  • Paul Hurst as Nick 'The Gouger' Mizoski
  • Clark Gable as Carl Luckner
  • Ralph Bellamy as Johnny Franks
  • John Miljan as Smiling Joe Colimo
  • DeWitt Jennings as Chief Donlin
  • Murray Kinnell as 'Dummy' Metz (alias of Fink)
  • Fletcher Norton as Jimmy Delano
  • Louis Natheaux as Eddie
  • Frank McGlynn, Sr. as Judge
  • Theodore Von Eltz as District Attorney Keeler
  • Lynton Brent ... Reporter (uncredited)
  • Charles Giblyn ... Mr. Simms - Ballistics Expert (uncredited)
  • Joseph W. Girard ... Official (uncredited)
  • Tom London ... Blackjacking Gangster (uncredited)
  • George Magrill ... Police Guard at Jailhouse (uncredited)
  • Lee Phelps ... Smelts - Waiter (uncredited)
  • Oscar Rudolph ... Ivan Colimo (uncredited)
  • Hector Sarno ... Finko (uncredited)
  • Carol Tevis ... Manicurist (uncredited)
  • Walter Walker ... Onlooker in Courtroom (uncredited)
  • S.D. Wilcox ... Protesting Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
  • Context

    The film was Ralph Bellamy's first screen role. Beery and Gable made Hell Divers the following year, this time with Gable's role almost as large as Beery's. Beery, Harlow and Gable would work together again four years later in the epic seafaring adventure China Seas (1935), only with their billing reversed and all three names above the title.

    Box office

    According to MGM records the film earned $708,000 in the US and Canada and $286,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $148,000.

    References

    The Secret Six Wikipedia
    The Secret Six IMDb The Secret Six themoviedb.org