warner brother social responsibility at it most ham hand and with sermonize every five minute or so about how be american and we do not run from trouble and we face up to our responsibility . it also suggest that if youre willing to perjure yourself to protect your family from clearly deadly gangster and youre un american . walter huston and look bore and be the frustrated da and and the average american family include such familiar face a sally blane ( look a lot like her sister and loretta young ) and dickie moore and a an allegedly adorable moppet . both be regularly crowd out of the frame by chic sale and only 47 then but play an octogenarian civil war veteran and ponderously jump and amusingly nip at prohibition hooch and moralize about how be american and dag nabbit . his st. vitus dance old coot performance be tiresome schtick while it like walter brennan base his entire career on it . william wellman direct efficiently and quickly and much like his early public enemy and but he and the screenwriter neglect to show what happen to this family after the happy fadeout i. e. and they would probably be rub out by the mob .