Hard-boiled underworld melodrama, with gang wars and gunfights, in which criminal lawyer turns prosecutor to avenge a friend's death..


Is The City Gone Wild worth watching today? Short answer: yes, but with significant caveats that demand a discerning eye. This film is a fascinating, if uneven, time capsule for th...
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James Cruze

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In a metropolis teetering on the brink of anarchy, The City Gone Wild plunges into the brutal heart of urban crime, where a high-stakes criminal lawyer, intimately familiar with the underworld's labyrinthine machinations, finds his carefully constructed world irrevocably shattered. When a trusted friend falls victim to the city's relentless gang warfare, his professional detachment crumbles. Fuelled by a raw, consuming desire for retribution, this former defender of the accused embarks on a radical transformation, shedding his old skin to become a relentless prosecutor. His quest for vengeance propels him through a gauntlet of escalating gunfights and ruthless power struggles, forcing him to navigate the very moral ambiguities he once exploited, all while the city itself threatens to devour him whole.

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Jules Furthman, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Charles Furthman
United States


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