Directed by Rowland Brown
Tracy found a meaty role as a truck driver who becomes a corrupt organizer through manipulation and thuggery even as he longs to go legit. Trading up to a more genteel girlfriend, and legal business, are all futile; Bugs is doomed, as the genre dictates. But Tracy leaves a surprisingly charming mark on a character type that he would be glad to escape in just a few years: the “mug.”
Fox Film Corp. Screenwriter: R. Brown, Courtenay Terrett. Cinematographer: Joseph August. Editor: Harold Schuster. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, John Wray, Warner Richmond, Sally Eilers.
35mm, b/w, 69 min.
