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Big Town Czar

  • Mystery

May 3, 1939 (US)

1h 6m

DICTATOR... Of The Sinister Empire Behind The Big City's Bright Lights!

When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fi...

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