Week Fifty-Five
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"Hunted Men" 1938
Thanks to Ken from Canada for finding this one. |
MOVIE NAME: HUNTED MEN
STUDIO: PARAMOUNT PICTURES INC.
PRODUCER: HAROLD HURLEY
DIRECTOR: LOUIS KING
DATE: 1938
TYPE: CRIME, DRAMA
CAST:
MARY CARLISLE as Jane Harris , LLOYD NOLAN as Joe Albany, LYNNE OVERMAN as Peter Harris , J. CARROL NAISH as Morton Rice, ANTHONY QUINN as Mac , DOROTHY PETERSON as Mrs. Mary Harris, DELMAR WATSON as Robert Harris, SONNY BUPP as G-Man Club member , TOMMY BUPP as Club Member , JOHNNY DOWNS as Frank Martin
SOURCE: A F I, Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940
STORY: Notorious Racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. While escaping from a get-a-way taxi he is accidentally hit with a car by hardware salesman Peter Harris, unharmed, Joe uses the opportunity to hide in Peter's car. A drunken Peter believes Joe's story that he is Charles Edwards, a fellow hardware man who was with him at the hardware convention and accompanies Peter to his home. The next morning Joe wants to leave, but Peter's family, his wife Mary, son Robert and daughter Jane all want him to stay. Later, his lawyer Morton Rice, advises him that to hideout in the Harris home, so Joe reveals his true identity to Peter and Mary, and becomes their unwelcome guest. Robert and Jane become fond of "Charles." Joe was Roberts role model, especially after he buys him a toy G-man outfit. Robert swears Joe into his secret G-man club, but the oath that Joe takes makes him uncomfortable, because he has to swear never to raise his hand against the law. Joe and Jane develop a relationship and after she confesses her love, he rejects her to save her from future unhappiness. Finally the police are lead to the Harris home. The police arrest Joe's thugs who are living across the street and call for to come out or they will come in shooting. At first Joe takes the family hostage, but Robert's disappointment upon learning Joe's identity causes Joe to have a change of heart and hand his gun to Peter and give himself up. Joe walks out of the house, but when he refuses to raise his arms for the police and reaches for his coat pocket, they gun him down. As he dies, Joe recalls some of Jane and Robert's words of innocent wisdom.
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