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Quick Millions

  • 1931
  • 1h 12min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,3/10
440
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Spencer Tracy and Marguerite Churchill in Quick Millions (1931)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaTruck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he plots to k... Leggi tuttoTruck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he plots to kidnap her on her wedding day.Truck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he plots to kidnap her on her wedding day.

  • Regia
    • Rowland Brown
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Rowland Brown
    • Ben Hecht
    • Charles MacArthur
  • Star
    • Spencer Tracy
    • Marguerite Churchill
    • Sally Eilers
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,3/10
    440
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Rowland Brown
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Rowland Brown
      • Ben Hecht
      • Charles MacArthur
    • Star
      • Spencer Tracy
      • Marguerite Churchill
      • Sally Eilers
    • 14Recensioni degli utenti
    • 7Recensioni della critica
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    Interpreti principali24

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    Spencer Tracy
    Spencer Tracy
    • Daniel J. 'Bugs' Raymond
    Marguerite Churchill
    Marguerite Churchill
    • Dorothy Stone
    Sally Eilers
    Sally Eilers
    • Daisy De Lisle
    Bob Burns
    Bob Burns
    • 'Arkansas' Smith
    • (as Robert Burns)
    John Wray
    John Wray
    • Kenneth Stone
    Warner Richmond
    Warner Richmond
    • 'Nails' Markey
    George Raft
    George Raft
    • Jimmy Kirk
    John Swor
    • Contractor
    Leon Ames
    Leon Ames
    • Hood
    • (as Leon Waycoff)
    Oscar Apfel
    Oscar Apfel
    • Police Detective Capp
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Edwin Argus
    Edwin Argus
    • Testimonial Dinner Guest
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Ward Bond
    Ward Bond
    • Cop in Montage
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Dannie Mac Grant
    Dannie Mac Grant
    • Newsboy
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Eddie Hart
    Eddie Hart
    • Henchman
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Edgar Kennedy
    Edgar Kennedy
    • Cop
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    Henry Kolker
    Henry Kolker
    • District Attorney
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    Dixie Lee
    Dixie Lee
    • Stone's Secretary
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    Tom London
    Tom London
    • Atlas Newsreel Man
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      • Rowland Brown
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Rowland Brown
      • Ben Hecht
      • Charles MacArthur
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    61930s_Time_Machine

    One of the classic early thirties gangster films

    PUBLIC ENEMY, SCARFACE and LITTLE CAESAR are the ones we all know but this one should definitely be on that same shelf. If you like 'the big three' you're bound to like this as well. Is it as good? Not quite but still a must see for any old gangster fans.

    This was so obviously made in America in 1931 which was not a happy place. Filmmaker Rowland Brown was very much part of that seedy and dangerous world and it was his mission to show everyone the reality of how he saw life. His film is therefore quite pessimistic - it offers no answer or way out of the escalating problem of crime and corruption which to so many people back then seemed unstoppable. In one scene someone says that in twenty years time, America will no longer be a democracy but a land ruled by gangsters,hoodlums and petty warlords. This film is about that society so there's not many smiles per minute!

    Although a very talented writer - his DOORWAY TO HELL really was one of the very best of the early thirties gangster pictures (better than LITTLE CAESAR) but as a director he was more an enthusiastic amateur than a filmmaker. This film is packed with so much story that it doesn't quite allow enough time to develop the characters. As is often the case with first movies, he possibly tries to squeeze too many ideas into his seventy minutes? This is the first film he directed and it unfortunately shows. He doesn't quite manage to make his actors into real people. Marguerite Churchill, for example, one of the most beautiful actresses ever to grace the screen is completely wasted in this - she only has about ten lines. Her role is just decoration. And "For the ladies" there's George Raft - again we don't get to know him.

    The big, big, big difference between this and the thirties' best gangster movie, PUBLIC ENEMY is that William Wellman's film was about a person you could relate to. It had focus. Cagney's character wasn't exactly likeable but you felt you knew enough about him to want to know more. You could understand why he was the way he was. Spencer Tracy doesn't feel like someone you'd want to know - he's thoroughly unpleasant.

    In summary, this is a well-made film, it's watchable, interesting and entertaining but to be critical, it does lack emotional engagement. Like Brown's (excellent) DOORWAY TO HELL (and also SCARFACE), this invests most of its effort into reflecting early thirties society than telling us about the characters and what makes them tick. As a time machine it's brilliant in transporting you, body and soul to the grimy, gritty and dangerous streets of 1931. If you want a sense of that era, this is perfect.
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    Quick Millions is quite mediocre.

    1931 was a bumper crop year featuring up and coming movie stars (Cagney, Robinson, Tracy) who would become legends doing gangster turns, followed in 32 by Paul Muni in Scarface. While Robinson and Cagney scored in in Little Caser and Public Enemy respectively, Spencer Tracy in Quick Millions proved he was more at home with virtue than vice.

    Truck driver with a sense of ambition, Bugs Raymond (Tracy) organizes drivers with some muscle and is soon running a sweet protection racket across the city. Working his way up the food chain he garners respectability and a desire to marry the upper crust daughter (Sarah Churchill) of his extorted, legitimate partner. When she rejects him he hatches an absurd plan to whisk her away, giving his former mob pals an opportunity to exploit his power.

    Tracy simply is not up to the iconic mobster performances delivered by the aforementioned actors getting their starts. Too measured in his rage he lacks the operatic pretense of Rico, the natural smart alecky ways of Cagney, the disturbing incestuous lunacy of Muni to be absorbing and put spark into the picture. Margurite Churchill as the love interest also does the picture no favors with a flat performance while Sally Eilers as Daisy and George Raft as a triggerman give plus performances.

    Directed by the supposedly talented but temperamental Rowland Brown and lensed by underrated Joe August, Millions displays some moments of fine mise en scene, but in total this is lack luster Spence, an actor more at home on the side of decency than immorality. More adept at hearing confessions than giving them.
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    Better the second time around

    "Quick Millions" is a shadow of better gangster films made the same year (Public Enemy and Little Caesar) but for all its awkwardness it grows with the viewing and is better the second time around.

    Aesthetically, it is not an important film and explores only familiar territory. Still, there are unexpected delicious moments. The studio seemed to be trying to make Spencer Tracy into James Cagney with this turn as a racketeer trying to class himself up.

    In film history, "Quick Millions" is important. It was Tracy's first starring role, and he needed it badly. It's not a common character for him and yet his skills at underplaying are clear and marvelous. For George Raft, who looks totally GQ in his every scene, this film was the direct reason he landed a similar henchman role in the terrific "Scarface," which proved to be his breakthrough. It also got him his contract with Paramount. Despite a rough beginning, Tracy and Raft became good friends while filming "Quick Millions." It's an interesting aspect, almost an unconscious battle of screen chemistry. Just try to keep your eyes off Raft doing absolutely nothing in the background except shifting his weight while you're supposed to be paying attention to Tracy's important dialogue with other characters.

    What works: Great lighting direction during the holdup at the "testimonial dinner." Focus on Raft's legs while dancing at a party, which initially seems to be just showing off his deft moves but in fact is leading up to the next time we see his legs in a brilliantly shot murder scene. Surprising musical interludes. Tracy incorrigible and so believable in carrying the film.

    What does not work: Ham-fisted camera work - even in '31 cinematography was advanced beyond this clumsiness. Long-winded anti-racketeering speeches. While dialogue is often sharp, the storytelling leaves gaps.

    And watch out for a flip of the bird.
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    Quick Brown

    Roland Brown the director was a hell of a guy. He had ties with the underworld, was a boxing sparring partner for Jack Dempsey, he knocked down a producer.... So, he was not the common bland film maker. This one is his first film, the first of a short list of features. It is a light hearted crime drama, but not a comedy. Not a pure gangster film either. However I was so surprised to see Spencer Tracy co starring George Raft, one year before SCARFACE. Spencer Tracy in a role not so far from Sylvester Stallone in F. I. S. T, a bleak character. But I would have prefered a grittier movie. I expected a bit more from Rowland Brown, maybe because of his reputation, hard boiled reputation.
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    A harbinger of Jimmy Hoffa

    In his second film Spencer Tracy could have been typecast the rest of his career on the strength of his performance in Quick Millions. Fortunately for him he wasn't, but he's pretty nigh unforgettable here.

    Long before Jimmy Hoffa came around, Spencer Tracy got the idea in this film that if truck drivers could be organized there was a lot of money to be made for the one who did it. With the support of girl Sally Eilers who wants a taste of the good life too in those Depression years, Tracy gets a whole lot of people under his thumb. As he shows what can one do without material being delivered. One can't sell produce or build buildings without the material at hand. Jimmy Hoffa would have liked the way Tracy's character Bugs Raymond thinks.

    But Hoffa sure would not have liked the way Tracy obsesses over society girl Marguerite Churchill. She's the sister of John Wray from whom he extorted a partnership in the building trades via his truck union. That obsession is what leads to his downfall.

    Quick Millions was also the second film for George Raft who plays Tracy's bodyguard and trigger man. Raft also does an occasional freelance job and that is what does him in as well. Raft would have to wait another year for his breakout role in support of Paul Muni in Scarface in a similar role as in Quick Millions.

    One of the few gangster films of the era that specifically does not deal with Prohibition, Quick Millions is an early example of labor racketeering shown on film. And it's a great early work for Spencer Tracy.

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      When Bugs Raymond asks a bookie for a tip on a horse race he is told, "Owney M. - put plenty on him". This was an in-joke allusion to New York racketeer Owney Madden, who was sponsoring George Raft's budding Hollywood career at the time.
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      Daniel J. 'Bugs' Raymond: I'll bet we'll be the best-dressed people there. That's all anybody goes to the opera for.

      Jimmy Kirk: I thought they only went to hear the music.

      Daniel J. 'Bugs' Raymond: Sure, but those people sit up in the balcony.

    • Connessioni
      Featured in Hollywood and the Stars: How to Succeed as a Gangster (1963)
    • Colonne sonore
      St. Louis Blues
      Written by W.C. Handy

      Played by pianist at party.

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    • Data di uscita
      • 3 maggio 1931 (Stati Uniti)
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      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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      • Fox Film Corporation
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