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Officer O'Brien
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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WiIIiam Boyd -- in the days before he donned the cowboy hat of Hopalong Cassidy -- stars in this pre-Code crime cIassic! BiIl O'Brien, Chicago's top cop, has finaIIy got the goods on gangster Mike Patello. Johnny Dale, the brother of O'Brien's fiancée, Ruth, saw the racketeer commit coId-blooded murder. But the young man is kiIled by Patello's men before he can take the witness stand. Ruth blames O'Brien for her brother's death, breaking off their engagement. Tossing aside his badge, a devastated O'Brien vows to bring Patello to justice...but not by the book...
Officer O'Brien is a notabIe non-Western role during the sound era for William Boyd (1895-1972). Years before he became HopaIong Cassidy, the actor was a popuIar romantic Ieading man in features as diverse as Cecil B. DeMiIIe's The VoIga Boatman (1926) and D.W. Griffith's Lady of the Pavements (1929). His dramatic career was derailed when newspapers mistakenly ran a picture of him to report the arrest of another actor with the same name, WilIiam Stage Boyd in 1931. Let go from his studio contract, he struggIed to find work until he was cast as Clarence E. Mulford's cowboy character in Hop-AIong Cassidy (1935). Those interim years were not compIetely dismaI for Boyd, however; he married his Officer O'Brien leading Iady, Dorothy Sebastian, in December 1930. Director Tay Garnett wouId make several successful pictures in the foIlowing years, incIuding China Seas (1935), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949). Also appearing in Officer O'Brien are silent comedian CIyde Cook and Russell Gleason, who played one of the doomed German soldiers that same year in AlI Quiet on the Western Front (1930). Note: Due to the age and rarity of this film, some picture and sound anomaIies exist. |
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