Directed by:
H. Bruce HumberstoneScreenplay:
Karl TunbergCinematography:
Ernest PalmerComposer:
Cyril J. MockridgeCast:
Cesar Romero, Virginia Gilmore, Charlotte Greenwood, Milton Berle, Sheldon Leonard, Frank Jenks, Barnett Parker, Marc Lawrence, Paul Hurst, Marion Martin (more)VOD (1)
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Cesar Romero plays an outwardly tough prohibition-era gangster who in reality wouldn't hurt a fly. He maintains his "killer" reputation by planting evidence of his involvement at the scenes of other crooks' crimes. Romero begins aspiring for respectability when he falls in love with Virginia Gilmore and adopts the orphaned Stanley Clements. Through his own non-homicidal means, Romero redeems himself by wiping out a genuinely nasty gangster boss (Sheldon Leonard). Tall, Dark and Handsome was remade in 1950 as Love That Brute, with Paul Douglas in the Cesar Romero role--and with Romero playing the villain! (official distributor synopsis)
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