Directed by Rowland Brown • 1931 • United States
Starring Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers
The first film directed by screenwriter Rowland Brown, QUICK MILLIONS features a ruthless performance from a young Spencer Tracy as Danny Raymond, a truck driver “too lazy to work and too nervous to steal” who rises through the criminal underworld as a racketeer. Eschewing any semblance of sentimentality, Brown offers a dynamic, startlingly violent, and breathtakingly cynical vision of total corruption.
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