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The Secret Six is a american film of genre Drama directed by George William Hill released in USA on 18 april 1931 with Wallace Beery
The Secret Six (1931)
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Add to a movie listThe 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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Pendant la prohibition, des gangs s'affrontent pour le contrôle des débits de boissons. Tribunal secret raconte l'ascension d'un second couteau. Wallace Beery, dans le rôle principal, incarne un ancien employé des abattoirs, Louis Scorpio, devenu homme de main de Newton, patron de la pègre. Clark Gable, dans un second rôle, interprète un journaliste qui couvre les faits divers à l'Examiner. Louis Scorpio tente de le corrompre pour l'inciter à soutenir dans la presse un homme de paille corrompu en lice pour les élections. Clark Gable refuse et s'engage dans la lutte contre la corruption en renseignant un tribunal secret, the Secret Six, qui lutte contre la pègre.Actors
Wallace Beery
(Louis 'Slaughterhouse' Scorpio)
Lewis Stone
(Richard 'Newt' Newton - Attorney at Law)
John Mack Brown
(Hank Rogers)
Jean Harlow
(Anne Courtland)
Clark Gable
(Carl Luckner)
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