The Last Gangster (1937)

THE LAST GANGSTER  (1937)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Edward Ludwig
    Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rose Stradner,
    Lionel Stander, Douglas Scott, John Carradine,
    Sidney Blackmer, Grant Mitchell, Louise Beavers
A bootlegger starts a ten-year stretch on Alcatraz, just as his wife is about to give birth. He's a violent psychopath to begin with, and this sequence of events does not improve his disposition. A fast-paced crime melodrama, predictable but well-played, with a couple of unusual features: a) the shootouts all take place offscreen, and b) Jimmy Stewart with a mustache. Robinson takes a beating in this, and Carradine swipes a scene or two as a fellow inmate who doesn't like him very much.