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‘ON GUARD, AMERICA! New amazing racket sweeps nation!’ Director Louis King’s 1938 Paramount Pictures American crime drama film Illegal Traffic reunites J Carrol Naish and Robert Preston from the same year’s King of Alcatraz. It […]
Captain Glennan (Harry Carey Sr): ‘Man and boy, I’ve sailed the seas for 30 years… and I’ve never lost a ship.’ Director Robert Florey’s 1938 American crime drama film King of Alcatraz stars Gail Patrick, […]
Director Carlo Lizzani’s 1974 crime thriller film Crazy Joe is an effective, strongly cast Italian gangster movie about real-life hot-tempered New York mafia boss ‘Crazy Joe’ Gallo, played by Peter Boyle. Crazy Joe is a […]
‘Sensational! Shocking! The inside story of the Nation’s Worst Crime Plot!’ Parole officers fight gangsters infiltrating the US parole system in the 1948 film noir crime thriller Parole, Inc. Director Alfred Zeisler’s low-budget 1948 black […]
Director Josef Von Sternberg’s 1929 film Thunderbolt [At the Gates of Death] is a tough, glum gangster picture, with the cops rounding up mobster Thunderbolt Jim Lang (George Bancroft, who was Oscar nominated for Best Actor). […]
Director Josef von Sternberg’s influential 1927 American silent crime thriller film Underworld [Paying the Penalty] is an impressively fast and furious tale of mobsters during Prohibition. It is one of the earliest gangster movies, and […]
Director Jerry Paris’s middling 1968 Walt Disney heist crime comedy film Never a Dull Moment stars Dick Van Dyke, Edward G Robinson, Dorothy Provine, Henry Silva, Slim Pickens and Jack Elam. Gangster-playing actor Jack Albany (Dick Van Dyke) is […]