| The Secret Six | |
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| Directed by | George W. Hill |
| Written by | Frances Marion |
| Produced by | George W. Hill Irving Thalberg |
| Starring | Wallace Beery Lewis Stone John Mack Brown Jean Harlow Clark Gable Ralph Bellamy Marjorie Rambeau |
| Cinematography | Harold Wenstrom |
| Edited by | Blanche Sewell |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $494,000[1] |
| Box office | $994,000[1] |
The Secret Six is a 1931 Americanpre-Code crime film starringWallace Beery as "Slaughterhouse Scorpio", a character very loosely based onAl Capone, and featuringLewis Stone,John Mack Brown,Jean Harlow,Clark Gable,Marjorie Rambeau andRalph Bellamy. The film was written byFrances Marion and directed byGeorge W. Hill forMGM.
Bootlegger Johnny Franks recruits a crude working man called Louis "Slaughterhouse" Scorpio as part of the gang of mob boss and lawyer Richard "Newt" Newton. Scorpio eventually becomes head of the organization himself. Then he is prosecuted by a secret group of six masked crime fighters, aided by newspaper reporters Carl Luckner and Hank Rogers.
The film wasRalph Bellamy's first screen role in what became a six-decade career. Despite being billed seventh in the cast, Clark Gable has more screen time than this implies, and much greater impact. Beery and Gable madeHell Divers (1932) the following year, this time with Gable's role and billing almost as large as Beery's. Beery, Harlow and Gable would work together again four years later in the epic seafaring adventureChina Seas (1935), only with their billing reversed and all three names (Gable, Harlow and Beery) above the title.
Harlow and Gable would work together in five other films,Red Dust (1932),Hold Your Man (1933),China Seas (1935),Wife vs. Secretary (1936) andSaratoga (1937).[2]
Harlow andLewis Stone would work together in four other films,Red-Headed Woman (1932),The Girl from Missouri (1934),China Seas (1935) andSuzy (1936).[3]
According to MGM records, the film earned $708,000 in the US and Canada and $286,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $148,000.[1]
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