The Beast of the City

Police Captain Jim Fitzpatrick takes on a city’s corrupt administration when he investigates a killing and arrests a crime boss with friends in high places. The man is released and Fitzpatrick is reassigned to the boondocks, but gets his chance again when he is on the spot to prevent a bank robbery., Jean Harlow stars as a gangster moll in this gritty police drama about an overzealous, but well-meaning, cop who learns how hard it is to clean up his crime-riddled city and corrupt police force., A reluctantly appointed police chief in a crime-riddled city decides to try and make a difference, working ruthlessly hard to clean the streets of gangsters and to shape up his own corrupt department., A reluctantly appointed police chief in a crime-riddled city takes his job seriously and works hard to clean the streets of gangsters and to shape up his own corrupt department in this brutal, gritty film noir. Jean Harlow plays a luminescent but ill-fated gun moll.