The Secret 6
Wallace Beery stars as a ruthless mob boss loosely based on Al Capone in this hardboiled Pre-Code crime saga.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 16, 2012
- Originally Released: 1931
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Marjorie Rambeau & Ralph Bellamy | |
Performer: | Clark Gable, Paul Hurst, John Miljan & DeWitt Jennings | |
Directed by | George W. Hill | |
Edited by | Blanche Sewell | |
Screenwriting by | Frances Marion | |
Cinematography by | Harold Wenstrom | |
Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons | |
Produced by | George W. Hill & Irving Thalberg | |
Director of Photography: | Harold Wenstrom |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 6.5/10 --
National Treasure: Book of Secrets is a pretty typical blockbuster sequel, focused intently on appeasing what it thinks the audience wants, and missing out on what it takes to make a truly good movie.
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ComingSoon.net
The derivative National Treasure: Book of Secrets is a smooth, lightweight action film for undemanding audiences.
Screen International
Rating: 3/4 --
A slight improvement over its agreeable forebearer...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 2.5/5 --
National Treasure: the Book of Secrets is an absurd adventure, but its absurdity is wacky and warmhearted. You have to suspend your disbelief, but so what? National Treasure: the Book of Secrets delivers on what it sets out to be: lively and
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Fayetteville Free Weekly
This just might be the silliest movie ever to feature three Academy Award winners.
Ebert & Roeper
Rating: 1/4 --
The plot is illogical to the core, which one would have accepted had the film been a sheer roller-coaster ride, leaving you little time to notice the holes in the plot.
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Outlook
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Even when its credibility is stretched thin, it coasts through on charm...which gives it just enough points to make it not a waste of time.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Wallace Beery gives a powerhouse performance in this hard-boiled Pre-Code crime saga costarring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in her MGM debut. Beery stars as Louis Scorpio, a stockyard worker who takes over a bootlegging gang run by small-town hoodlum Johnny Franks (Ralph Bellamy in his screen debut). Muscling into the big city rackets, Scorpio is targeted by the Secret Six, a masked tribunal that works with reporter Carl Luckner (Gable) to dig up the dirt that could convict the mobster and send him straight to the chair.
Borrowed from Howard Hughes, Jean Harlow was cast as one of Scorpio's molls, sharing a few scenes with the up-and-coming Gable. Although his part was small at first, Gable's role was beefed up during production, eventually tripling in size. Within a year, the pair would become two of MGM's biggest stars, reteaming five more times before Harlow's untimely death in 1937.
Borrowed from Howard Hughes, Jean Harlow was cast as one of Scorpio's molls, sharing a few scenes with the up-and-coming Gable. Although his part was small at first, Gable's role was beefed up during production, eventually tripling in size. Within a year, the pair would become two of MGM's biggest stars, reteaming five more times before Harlow's untimely death in 1937.
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