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Bette Davis, George Brent and Ricardo Cortez star in this hard-hitting crime drama inspired by the government case against Al Capone. Unable to nail racketeer Alexander Carston (Cortez) for his criminal deeds, the Feds decided to indict him for tax evasion, but haven't the proof to convict him. Posing as a newspaper reporter, treasury agent Bill Bradford (Brent) woos gangland bookkeeper Julie Gardner (Davis) and get her to hand over the ledgers. Informed by a snitch that Bradford's a T-man and Gardner's agreed to testify, Carston takes steps to silence the dame who double-crossed and betrayed him. Based on a story idea by crime-reporter-turned-screenwriter Martin Mooney (Bullets or Ballots, Detour), Special Agent would be remade by Warner Bros. as Gambling on the High Seas, a 1940 programmer starring Jane Wyman, Wayne Morris and Gilber Roland.
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Movie Details
- Format
- DVD
- Encoding
- Region 1 (US & Canada)
- Rating
- G
- Originally Released
- 1935
- Runtime
- 1 hours, 16 minutes
- Label
- Warner
- Starring
- Bette Davis;George Brent;Ricardo Cortez;Jack La Rue;Henry O'Neill;Robert Strange;Joseph Crehan;J. Carrol Naish;Joe Sawyer;William B. Davidson;Robert Barrat;Paul Guilfoyle;Joe King;Irving Pichel
Manufactured on Demand
This film was released by studios as part of their MOD (Manufactured-On-Demand) line of releases. This is not a bootleg. In order to make the release of films with low sales demand possible, major studios like Universal, Sony, Warner, Paramount, Hallmark and 20th Century Fox have contracted with a distributor to provide manufactured-on-demand releases to consumers.