Synopsis
...the embattled cry of aroused youth in America's "silent war"!
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
False Faces, The Legion of Valour
Alice Brady, was the reason I watched this; as part of my July 2022 list of films featuring my fav supporting players
Brady was a big silent star and then became more of a major supporting player in the 1930s. She was a performer you would recognize as soon as she spoke 3 words & she makes this otherwise convoluted FBI agent crime drama a bit more interesting.
Despite the various stars in this, 6th billed Eric Linden is probably the most memorable in this. But the writers of this simplistically put Linden's character in danger for a scene against all logic just to create (a very artificial) confrontation.
Richard Arlen, Virginia Bruce and Bruce Cabot are the leads in this, but none of them make their characters particularly intriguing and/or interesting.
5.25/10
Good story. Bruce Cabot was great as the bad guy. The heroes were good, too. I wish Virginia Bruce had been in it a bit more.
Hardly the best FBI crime buster, but Bruce Cabot was memorable at the gangster. Loved the plastic surgery! Let 'em Have It (1935) started in fine flow of being introduced to the "modern" methods of the Bureau. The script feels a bit cardboard cut, but delivers enough sympathetic and unsympathetic characters to keep things afloat. The romances wasn't much to brag about, which meant Virginia Bruce was completely wasted, but this was a guys flick where the action was at focus. Solid, though not a very refined crime story.
Feels sort of like a cut-rate William Wellman movie, but this isn't bad. At its core essentially weird pro-FBI, anti-parole propaganda, it suffered from the only slightly interesting character being the villain. The bursts of violence are impactful.