We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
Brute “Love That Brute” has been designed strictly for laughs. The comedy takes place in 1928, the era when “X” marked the spot where the coroner knelt and gave some of the rougher Chicago boys their last I.Q.’s. In fact, the entire story is laid in the Windy City when it was wide open, when law-abiding citizens were at the mercy of merciless racketeers and gunmen. Central figure in “Love That Brute”—incidentally, the title was taken from a Life magazine article on Paul Douglas—is a rough, tough, loud-talking gang- leader, named “Big Ed” Hanley, played by Douglas. At the time he and his gang, headed by “Bugs” (Keen- an Wynn), are at war with their rival mob, led by “Pretty Willie”, portrayed by Cesar Romero. But, “Big Ed” falls in love with Jean Peters, a lovely and sophis- ticated young lady temporarily busying herself taking care of children, although aspiring for a career as a singer. She loathes gangsters. “Big Ed”, to be near her, adopts a mean, uncompromising boy, Peter Price, so he may hire her as a governess. To keep her from knowing he is a mob-chief, “Big Ed” brings into his home an assortment of characters, including Mamie (Joan Davis), Quentin (Arthur Treacher), a torpedo, and others to give his household respectability! But, she has her suspicions, so he plots his own murderous “ride”. His plot is so successful even his rivals are convinced he has been “rubbed out”. Then funny things begin to happen in gang-infested Chicago. In the end, “Big Ed” gets his girl. Keenan Wynn was borrowed from MCM for the role of “Bugs” while Joan Davis took time off from her radio chores to enter the cast. Others in the cast of this Fred Kohlmar production directed by A1 Hall include Jay C. Flippen, Edwin Max, Sid Tomack and Charles Lane.