The Secret Six (1931) on Netflix
Chicago attorney Richard Newton runs a bootlegging gang, and Johnny Franks recruits Louis "Slaughterhouse" Scorpio into it. Two reporters join a masked group working against them.
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Plot summary
Richard Newton is a Chicago attorney who also runs a criminal organization and looks after his associates' legal affairs, often with intimidation and violence. Johnny Franks leads the bootlegging side, and to control the liquor trade in town he needs competitor Joe Colimo out of the way. Franks brings in a rough friend, Louis "Slaughterhouse" Scorpio, who got the nickname at a slaughterhouse near the stockyards. Scorpio does whatever the organization requires while watching out for himself, and he ends up at the head of the bootlegging operation. Reporters Hank Rogers and Carl Luckner take up work for a masked group of six businessmen, known as the Secret Six, that aims to bring down Newton, Scorpio and the rest. Anne Courtland, employed at a bar Scorpio runs, passes along inside information because she loves Rogers.
Cast
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- Betty Lawsonas Undertermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Secret Six (1931)
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- The film's title came from a real Chicago vigilante group of the same name, active from 1930 to 1933 until mistakes and scandals ended it. A 1930 Saturday Evening Post article by its founder, Col. Robert Isham Randolph, was attached to Frances Marion's script.
