The Doorway to Hell
Lew Ayres plays Ricarno in a machine-gunning Pre-Code saga.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 18 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: April 19, 2012
- Originally Released: 1930
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lew Ayres, Charles Judels, Robert Elliott, James Cagney, Leon Janney & Dorothy Mathews | |
Directed by | Archie Mayo | |
Edited by | Robert Crandall | |
Screenwriting by | George Rosener & Rowland Brown | |
Screenplay by | George Rosener | |
Composition by | Leo F. Forbstein | |
Art Direction by | Max Rée | |
Director of Photography: | Barney McGill |
Entertainment Reviews:
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User Ratings: 141
Rating: C- --
An early talkie from Warner Brothers.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 2.5/5 --
A historical relic flawed by miscasting but almost redeemed by an unjustly misunderstood ending.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Mob boss Louie Ricarno is leaving "the game," quitting the beer-running rackets and settling down in Florida to write his memoirs and live the good life with his new bride. Yet Ricarno's past returns to spoil his happiness, plunging him back into an underworld of violence and payback.
Top-billed Lew Ayres, just two months removed from his success in All Quiet on the Western Front, plays Ricarno in a machine-gunning Pre-Code saga. Adding extra excitement is James Cagney in his second film, giving a live-wire portrayal as a trusted mob lieutenant who secretly romances the boss' wife. Billed sixth but given much screen time in the film's first hour, Cagney confidently serves notice of an actor on the rise. Barely six months later, he would lay claim to stardom in his fourth film, the seminal gangster classic The Public Enemy.
Product Description:
In this early talkie, a vicious crime lord (played by Lew Ayres in a rare villainous role) decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command (James Cagney in hi second film role) and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and Cagney are lovers. Part of the reason the don wants to leave is to keep his young brother, who idolizes him, from learning the awful truth about his avocation. Soon after moving down to Florida, former rivals kidnap the brother and kill him, causing the reformed gangster to come back for deadly revenge. This was an innovative film and featured a lot of elements that would become standards in the gangster genre including tommy guns carried in violin cases, terrible shoot-outs, and lots of rum-running rivalry.
Keywords:
Rivalry
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Death
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Love Triangle
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Escape
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Crime
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Gangsters
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Brothers
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Revenge
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Kidnapping
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Love Triangles
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Criminals
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Battles
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Weapons
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 31,549
- UPC: 883316469095
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