Movie: Law of the Underworld

Top 10 Billed Cast

Chester Morris
Chester Morris

Gene Fillmore

Richard Bond
Richard Bond

Tommy Brown

Anne Shirley
Anne Shirley

Annabelle Porter

Eduardo Ciannelli
Eduardo Ciannelli

Rocky

Lee Patrick
Lee Patrick

Dorothy Palmer

Walter Abel
Walter Abel

Special Prosecutor Warren Rogers

Paul Guilfoyle
Paul Guilfoyle

Henchman Batsy

Eddie Acuff
Eddie Acuff

Henchman Bill

George Shelley
George Shelley

Henchman Frank

Anthony Warde
Anthony Warde

Henchman Larry

  • HomePage

  • Overview

    A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution

  • Release Date

    1938-05-06

  • Average

    5.5

  • Rating:

    2.8 starts
  • Tagline

    By Day, a Polo-Playing Socialite...By Night, King of the Racket Mob!

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    English
  • Keywords

Recommendations Movies

Florence Fight Club
74%

Florence Fight Club(ru)

2015-06-21

Intertwined stories from the gladiator/athletes participating to the Calcio Storico Fiorentino yearly championship.

Strange Object
60%

Strange Object(en)

2020-10-07

An archival investigation into the imperial image-making of the RAF ‘Z Unit’, which determined the destruction of human, animal and cultural life across Somaliland, as well as Africa and Asia.

Joy in Moscow
62%

Joy in Moscow(fr)

1992-01-14

Pretty Joy and her friend come to Moscow to shoot a commercial. A taxi driver, who recruits girls for an underground organization run by a distant descendant of Rasputin, suggests they visit the Rasputin Museum. During the tour, the girls are hypnotized by the evil character, who hypnotizes his victims before using their charms to seduce the rich tourists.

No End
70%

No End(pl)

1985-06-17

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.

The Pilgrim
68%

The Pilgrim(en)

1923-02-19

The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.

Six: Inside
85%

Six: Inside(en)

2009-01-01

Delves deep into the anxiety, thrill and uncertainty of six aspiring animation artists as they are plunged into the twelve-week trial-by-fire that is the NFB's Hothouse for animation filmmakers.

The Peasants
50%

The Peasants(az)

1939-12-28

A historical revolutionary film depicting the struggle of peasants and the Baku proletariat against landowners and Musavatists in 1919.

The Harder They Come
65%

The Harder They Come(en)

1972-08-01

Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a manipulative producer named Hilton, soon finds himself resorting to petty crime in order to pay the bills. He deals marijuana, kills some abusive cops and earns local folk hero status. Meanwhile, his record is topping the charts.

The Courtyard of Memories
54%

The Courtyard of Memories(pt)

2025-08-14

Vanessa inherits an old Portuguese Revue theatre after the death of a distant aunt. Her agent, Tozé Leal, tries to convince her to sell it, but she decides to restore it to its former glory with the help of her friends Joana and Ribeiro. But her dream will not be easy to achieve: Armando, the owner of a neighbouring theatre, will do everything he can to stop Vanessa.

A Clockwork Orange
86%

A Clockwork Orange(en)

2013-07-09

Video installation showing the film "A Clockwork Orange", reduced to its colour.

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
78%

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum(ja)

1939-10-13

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.

Ballet Mécanique
65%

Ballet Mécanique(fr)

1924-09-24

A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a few moments of solitude in a garden.

American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice
30%

American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice(en)

2017-03-01

A young man suffering from significant childhood trauma believes there are portals to the darkness around him that can be accessed through extreme self-mutilation. He locks himself in his home and proceeds to perform acts to summon the Goddess Ishtar to help him cross over to the other side.

Gabriel
80%

Gabriel(nl)

2020-09-01

At the end of World War II, a wounded German soldier, disguised as a Canadian, ends up in the midst of a hiding Jewish family.

The Idiot
65%

The Idiot(fr)

2008-08-07

Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky. Another is the opportunistic Ganya, whom Totsky has promised 75,000 rubles if he will marry Nastassia. Rogozhin offers Nastassia 100,000 rubles for her hand. And the “idiot,” Prince Myshkin, loves Nastassia madly and vows to “save” her.

The Golden Spurtle
67%

The Golden Spurtle(en)

2025-09-12

In a quaint Scottish village in the Highlands, contenders from around the globe gather to compete for the title of World Porridge Champion armed only with oats, salt and water. As the ailing Porridge Chieftain's tenure ends, he embarks on a mission to find a successor. Amidst intense rivalries and the charm of eccentric locals, this documentary delves into the legacy of the village and unveils a captivating culinary spectacle.

Dangerous Charm
83%

Dangerous Charm(bg)

1984-06-18

He is well educated, charming, and gallant - a dream for each lonely lady. In reality he is a skillful swindler, who robs naive women. Cheating merchants with guilty consciences are his targets as well. This is the elusive protagonist of the movie. He constantly changes his name, stages his own death, and travels from town to town. His exploits are myriad and his life is an endless adventure. Yet, he remains an amiable swindler, an unrealized actor, whose only goal is make his life more interesting.

Below the Beltway
48%

Below the Beltway(de)

2010-04-23

A political operative tries to expose a decade-old sex scandal that involves a U.S. senator.

My Wife's Relations
62%

My Wife's Relations(en)

1922-05-15

Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.

Similar Movies

Suicide Kings
66%

Suicide Kings(en)

1997-09-06

Carlo, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Carlo plays mind games, however, his captors splinter -- each wondering whether one of their own had a hand in the crime.

Knockaround Guys
60%

Knockaround Guys(en)

2001-11-30

Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.

Tudor Rose
81%

Tudor Rose(en)

1936-09-01

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

Pink Flamingos
62%

Pink Flamingos(en)

1972-03-17

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

A History of Violence
72%

A History of Violence(en)

2005-09-23

An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

Burn Out
67%

Burn Out(fr)

2018-01-03

Tony, a promising young motorcycle racer, is forced to do perilous drug runs to save the mother of his child from a dangerous mobster.

The Traitor
65%

The Traitor(de)

2024-10-24

Hoping to become a great singer in Germany, a young dreamer named Ernst Schrämli finds himself drawn into underhand dealings. Determined to escape a suffocating environment that annihilates any kind of creative or artistic impetus, Ernst sells information about the Swiss army to a Nazi spy by the name of August Schmid, who charms and manipulates him. When Ernst’s crime is uncovered, he is sentenced to death for espionage and treason, becoming the first Swiss citizen to be executed.

Reach for Glory
53%

Reach for Glory(en)

1962-04-14

During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won't end before they can fight in it.

Jánošík
50%

Jánošík(sk)

1936-01-17

Jánošík has been topic of many Slovak and Polish legends, books and films. According to the legend, he robbed nobles and gave the loot to the poor. The legend were also known in neighboring Silesia, the Margraviate of Moravia and later spread to the Kingdom of Bohemia. The actual robber had little to do with the modern legend, whose content partly reflects the ubiquitous folk myths of a hero taking from the rich and giving to the poor. However, the legend was also shaped in important ways by the activists and writers in the 19th century when Jánošík became the key highwayman character in stories that spread in the north counties of the Kingdom of Hungary (present Slovakia) and among the local Gorals and Polish tourists in the Podhale region north of the Tatras.

Decoy
58%

Decoy(en)

1946-09-14

A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies.

Highway
55%

Highway(en)

2002-03-26

Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. Pilot insists that they head for Seattle, but doesn't tell Jack why. The goons learn from Pilot's drug source where the youths are headed, and they follow, hell bent on breaking Jack's feet. On the road, Jack and Pilot give a ride to Cassie, a distressed young woman. She and Jack hit it off. They pick up an aging stoner headed to Seattle for Kurt Cobain's memorial, and they help a circus sideshow family. Why is Pilot so set on Seattle, will the goons catch Jack, and is there any way the friends' competing needs can be resolved?

Hoodlum
64%

Hoodlum(en)

1997-08-27

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.

Criss Cross
71%

Criss Cross(en)

1949-02-04

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

Drop Dead Sexy
48%

Drop Dead Sexy(en)

2005-03-12

When their money scam runs aground, a group of would-be thieves turn to kidnapping in an attempt to blackmail their target.

Super Fly
62%

Super Fly(en)

1972-08-04

Priest, a suave top-rung New York City drug dealer, decides that he wants to get out of his dangerous trade. Working with his reluctant friend, Eddie, Priest devises a scheme that will allow him to make a big deal and then retire. When a desperate street dealer informs the police of Priest's activities, Priest is forced into an uncomfortable arrangement with corrupt narcotics officers. Setting his plan in motion, he aims to both leave the business and stick it to the man.

Stray Dog
0%

Stray Dog(en)

2017-10-16

A money launderer finds himself in a bind on Christmas Eve when a case of mistaken identity leads to him spending the evening with an unpredictable runaway instead of his family.

Outlaw
47%

Outlaw(en)

2001-01-01

Conner is a hit man. A mob boss gets whacked. His son hires Conner to find out who did it. If he refuses or takes longer he's dead.

Dolan's Cadillac
59%

Dolan's Cadillac(en)

2009-07-01

Robinson, a once peaceful, law-abiding school teacher, has turned into an obsessed vengeance machine, intent on killing the man who murdered his wife - ruthless Las Vegas mob boss James Dolan. But to do so, Robinson must infiltrate the dangerous underworld, and devise a diabolical plan that will bury Dolan once and for all.

Mobsters
62%

Mobsters(en)

1991-07-26

The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...

The Executioner's Song
57%

The Executioner's Song(en)

1982-09-10

In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. As their relationship quickly deteriorates, Gary goes on a murderous rampage, leaving two dead. During his trial, he demands capital punishment; a media circus ensues and outsiders look to profit from his story.