You take a two hundred dollar case of booze and you sell it for a hundred.It doesn""t matter.It""s all profit.And then finally, when there""s nothing left, when you can""t borrow another buck from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the joint out.Its low-budget sets and cheap, sleazy atmosphere added to the film""s impact.The film""s rich black-and-white cinematography was provided by Tony Gaudio.W.R.Burnett, the author of the novel on which the film""s screenplay (by Francis Faragoh and Robert N.Lee) was based, was also co-scriptwriter ofScarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932).The crime film""s impact at the start of the sound era was remarkable - its box-office popularity spawned many others like it (mostly from the Warner Bros.The group was threatened again by the wolf pack and pursuit by he Queen, but they managed to cross on a cracking ice floe, holding on to Peter""s sword, to avoid capture.They soon become friends with Charles Baker "Dill" Harris (John Megna) who is visiting his Aunt for two weeks in the summertime from Meridian, Mississippi.(To his wife) What do you think?Nellie: Well - the George is fine - but the Washington - may be too long for a billboard.