The Ruling Voice

Ruthless crime lord Jack Bannister (Walter Huston) causes countless hardships. His daughter Gloria (Loretta Young) is returning home after ten years in an European boarding school. When she discovers his criminal work, she breaks her engagement to her boyfriend Dick Cheney. She's ashamed of her own father and fears entangling anyone else to his organization. He launches a milk war and she is threatened over it.

It's an entry in the WB gangster movie genre. Huston's performance is more stuffy than Godfather. It would be better to have Jack Bannister get his hands dirty early in the movie. Instead, he's a CEO dressed in a suit. He's vicious but he's not that different from the many psychopaths in the executive suites. The ending is rushed and unrealistic. It's odd that it doesn't even show the shooting. It's a marginal gangster movie.