WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

bpress54 The absolute worst part about this movie, besides the awful dialog, is the performance by Eduardo Cianelli. What a crap actor he was. He really sucked. He has a stupid accent. He acts like a bad ass but is really a pussy. His acting isn't good. I just keep writing because I need ten lines on order to get published. Eduardo Cianelli was a horrible actor. I don't see how he got an acting job. He was a really bad actor. I have to keep writing to get 10 lines of text. The premise behind the movie was OK but the writing and dialog was really bad. there were some other crap actors in the movie too, like the old dried up blonde who played rocky's girlfriend. She was nasty looking and not a good actress. did people really talk the way they do in these old movies?

bkoganbing Law Of The Underworld contains some nice performances by Chester Morris, Lee Patrick, and Eduardo Ciannelli and sad that they are wasted in a muddle of a film. Quite frankly this thing is unbelievable.Richard Bond and Anne Shirley are a pair of engaged folks who apparently have no street smarts and flash a roll around some gangsters. One of them Eduardo Ciannelli is a particularly murderous individual who hasn't been getting his financial due from the big boss Chester Morris. Still this big time heist guy robbing these kids for walking around money is really dumb.But that's nothing to how dumb Shirley and Bond are who decide to stick up the stick up men and get their $136.00 nest egg back. Morris is in the room now and he overpowers them. But he decides he can use these two as a kind of shill for his next job which is jewelry store robbery.It all of course both goes wrong and the film keeps going downhill from there. Lee Patrick is a nightclub singer and a really bad dame who's been two timing Morris with Ciannelli. Walter Abel repeats the role he had in Warner Brothers Racketbusters as a Thomas E. Dewey type special prosecutor.The story is pretty unbelievable, why didn't those two young people just go to the cops and make a police report of the robbery? I guarantee you if you see Law Of The Underworld you won't figure it out either.

MartinHafer Again and again during the course of this film you might think that the movie might in fact turn out to be a reasonably good little film. However, due to really awful writing that occasionally creeps onto the screen, the overall effort is very, very poor, so don't get your hopes up with this little film.The movie starts by showing a young couple being robbed in Central Park. It isn't surprising this happens--after all, they did a lousy job of concealing their wad of cash meant for their honeymoon. And, oddly, when a cop comes upon the robbery, the couple say nothing and don't ask for help--allowing the two crooks to continue robbing them and get away!! Even dumber is later, when the two burst into a room full of hoodlums and demand their money back at gunpoint!!! Believe it or not, this very, very naive couple only behave more stupidly throughout the course of the film.While these two dummies seem too idiotic to believe, the rest of the actors in leading roles are pretty good---at least at first. Eduardo Cianelli is excellent as a hot-headed hood and Chester Morris is generally good as the leader of a gang. However, as the film concludes, Morris is so stupid that you wonder if hanging around this couple perhaps wore off on him--such as a stupid virus!! While parts of the film work, the bad parts are what I was left remembering. Even though I am a huge fan of classic Hollywood films, this is one I can't recommend and can never see myself seeing again. Avoid it--you'll be doing yourself a favor.By the way, if you look carefully, you'll see that a member of the gang is a very young Jack Carson before he was a star.

lianfarrer LAW OF THE UNDERWORLD is a grade-B gangster film that is little more than a promising premise. Chester Morris stars as Gene Fillmore, an "honorable gangster" whose strategy is to keep a low criminal profile, directing his gang to carry out well-planned robberies that avoid the need to use violence. He keeps his men on a tight leash to make sure they stay out of trouble—and jail.So far, Gene's system has been successful. None of his high-society friends (including the newly-appointed district attorney, played by Walter Abel) has any idea that he is anything other than a fun-loving playboy. In fact, the D.A. tries to elicit Gene's help in a crusade to wipe out crime. He declines the invitation. It might have made a more interesting story if he'd done otherwise!One of Gene's underlings, Rockey (played by the appropriately creepy Eduardo Ciannelli), chafes at Gene's "play-it-safe" approach to crime. In a play to become top dog, he has sown the seeds of dissent with some of the other members of the gang, convincing them that Gene is too weak to be their leader. The ruthless Rockey is also having an affair with Gene's girl, a nightclub singer named Dorothy (played by a miscast Lee Patrick). Gene's "honorable thief" character is put to the test when an innocent young couple (Anne Shirley and Richard Bond) are drawn into his nest of criminals. The youngsters have stolen back the money that Rockey had stolen from them, at gunpoint, a short time earlier. They are told that they themselves are now guilty of theft and will go to jail unless they agree to participate as decoys in a jewel robbery. During the heist, Rockey shoots a couple of people, and the D.A. is out for blood.Back at the gang's nightclub hangout, Rockey and Gene square off, with Gene killing Rockey in self defense. Chanteuse Dorothy is enraged to see her man dead. In revenge, she lies to the gang in order to get them to turn on Gene. She then tips off the police, who raid the nightclub and arrest the young couple, though they fail to find Gene. Will honorable-gangster Gene let the young innocents take the rap for him? The outcome is pretty obvious, especially if you know the kind of character Chester Morris usually plays.The plot of LAW OF THE UNDERWORLD is full of holes and gaps in credibility, which undermines the conflict and suspense that might have made this a neat little crime story. Among the major head-scratching moments is the scene where Rockey holds up the young couple in Central Park. A police officer walks right up to them in the middle of the robbery and the kids say nothing, even though the girl had just said something about wishing a policeman would come along. It's also pretty hard to accept that nightclub singer Dorothy would prefer churlish, snarling Rockey to loving, generous (and much better-looking) Gene. Those are just two of many logistical gaffes to be found in the film. Additional liabilities are flaccid direction by Lew Landers and a patchy script by Bert Granet and Edmund L. Hartman.Among the few positive elements to be found in LAW OF THE UNDERWORLD are the performances of the always-watchable Chester Morris (I wish he'd been given better material to work with) and especially Eduardo Ciannelli, who shows himself to be the master of the sadistic sneer.Don't waste your time with this one unless you're a devoted fan of the genre.