***SPOILERS*** With him targeting top New York City mobster Joe Silenus, Harold Huber, the hard hitting just elected city District Attorney Steve Donegan, Walter Pidgeon, gets framed in an elaborate scheme involving his horse playing assistant Don Barrett, J.M Kerrigan who's in hock to Silenus for $3,000.
B-movies were inexpensively made films that lasted about an hour. They were intended as the 2nd, or 'B' film, for a double-feature.
6,000 Enemies (1939) *** (out of 4) Good "B" picture from MGM about a tough-as-nails D.A.
For a 1939 movie, not too bad. A bonus is that it runs just barely one hour, so tells the story fairly crisply.
I'm intrigued that Paul Kelly and Tom Neal are both in the cast of '6000 Enemies'. Kelly and Neal both had prolific careers in tough-guy roles, but they are now remembered largely for the fact that, in real life, both of them (separately) did prison time for manslaughter.
MGM'S 6000 ENEMIES (1939) bears a passing resemblance to Warner Brothers EACH DAWN I DIE (1939) without the star power of James Cagney and George Raft. Stalwart crime fighting citizen is unjustly framed and put behind bars.
Relentless prosecutor (Walter Pidgeon) is framed for bribery and sent to prison. Once there, he is faced with thousands (!
There's a prison scene in the film Cool Hand Luke (1967) in which George Kennedy beats up and continually knocks down new inmate and wise guy Paul Newman in a sanctioned boxing match. Newman keeps getting up until he can do so no more and, in so doing, earns the respect of Kennedy's character and the others in the prison.
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