million lawsuit against  Warner Bros., claiming the corrupt mayor in the movie was modelled  after him, and that it showed he was responsible for the bombing of  a private investigator. Shaw had been voted out of office in 1938 in  a campaign against political corruption led by a civic reform group  (which had hired a private detective to investigate the mayor; it  was that detectives house that had been bombed). Warner Bros.  countered that the movie was a remake of a 1931 film, but  nevertheless Warners East Coast ad campaign for the film called it  "The Ex