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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Gary Cooper, in a fine, gangly performance as a saintly bootlegger, is worth watching. Read more
Richard Brody, New Yorker: This atmospheric gangster classic, from 1931, is based on a story by Dashiell Hammett; it offers a terse visual translation of his prose as well as of his cold-blooded view of Prohibition-era underworld wiles. Read more