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Love That Brute is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Alexander Hall released in USA on 6 june 1950 with Paul Douglas

Love That Brute (1950)

Love That Brute
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Released in USA 6 june 1950
Length 1h26
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Crime
Rating62% 3.140833.140833.140833.140833.14083

Love That Brute is a 1950 comedy-crime film directed by Alexander Hall. The film is a remake of Tall, Dark and Handsome, a 1941 film also distributed by 20th Century Fox.

Synopsis

In 1928 Chicago, two gangsters kill a store owner. Mobster Big Ed (Paul Douglas) sends top henchman Bugsy Welch (Keenan Wynn) to place a white carnation -- his trademark -- on the corpses, to suggest that he is responsible. The police rush to arrest Big Ed, only to find out that he has an alibi. He has been in the park, where Big Ed encounters Ruth Manning (Jean Peters), a country girl who came to Chicago to be a singer, but is now a children's governess.

Actors

Paul Douglas

(E.L. 'Big Ed' Hanley)Jean Peters

(Ruth Manning)Cesar Romero

(Pretty Willie Wetzchahofsky)Keenan Wynn

(Bugsy Welch)Joan Davis

(Mamie Sage)
And :
Laurette Luez
Arthur Treacher
Jay C. Flippen
Barry Kelley
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