The Big Shakedown is a 1934 American pre-Code crime drama film starring Charles Farrell and Bette Davis, and directed by John Francis Dillon.

Jimmy Morrell and Norma Nelson who plan to wed as soon as their neighborhood pharmacy begins to show a profit.

The opportunity arises when former bootlegger Dutch Barnes offers Jimmy a job duplicating name brand toothpaste and cosmetics that can be made cheaply and then sold in the bottles and jars of reputable pharmaceutical companies at regular prices.

Thus it maintains a moderate sum of interest and excitement in the face of a routine assortment of gang-film impedimenta.

"[1] TV Guide calls it an "overblown crime melodrama" and adds, "the material stretches believability at every plot turn.