He’s best known for his writing, relying on his own mysterious background to craft underworld stories that soon became films like The Doorway to Hell (1930) and the classic Angels with Dirty Faces (1939).
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Sissy was one of a few films that Brown bolted from, others including RKO’s State’s Attorney (1932), which he wrote, and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), which proves Brown wasn’t willing to curb temperament, even when abroad. Rowland Brown directed just four movies and that’s only if you’re willing to include The Devil Is a Sissy (1936), which wound up credited to W.S. Blood Money is wild, even for a pre-Code, largely because of the young society woman and Frances Dee’s contribution to that character. The Dee character winds up duping Bancroft and this leads to a major misunderstanding and falling out between the bondsman and his former underworld connections. It’s only so long before she meets one of Bancroft’s clients, a crook that also happens to be brother of Bancroft’s long-time flame, played by Judith Anderson. The third release from 20th Century Pictures, Blood Money, features George Bancroft as an underworld bail bondsman, who falls for a young society kleptomaniac, played by Frances Dee, who's infected with an “underworld mania” and yearns for a strong man to dominate her. Starring George Bancroft, Judith Anderson, Frances Dee, Chick Chandler, Blossom Seeley, Etienne Girardot, George Regas. Based on an original story by Rowland Brown with contributions from a short by Read “Speed” Kendall.