The Big Heat...
Gangster Movies: (ca. 1953) Detective Dave Bannion is an upright but unscrupulous cop on the trail of a vicious gang he ...
White Heat...
Gangster Movies: (ca. 1949) Cody Jarrett is the sadistic leader of a ruthless gang of cut throat criminals. Afflicted by terrible ...
Angels With Dirty Faces...
Gangster Movies: (ca. 1938) Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly were tough kids who grew up together in Hells Kitchen, one of ...
The Petrified Forest...
Gangster Movies: (ca. 1936) Alan Squier, a cynical, failed British writer, wanders into an isolated, weather-beaten desert diner in Arizona owned ...
Scarface 1932...
Gangster Movies: (ca. 1932) "Big Louis Costillo", last of the old world style gang leaders is slain and his former right ...
The Public Enemy...
Gangster Movies: (ca. 1931) Tom Powers and Matt Doyle are best friends and fellow gangsters, working their way up through the ...
City Streets...
Gangster Movies: (ca. 1931) Nan, a racketeer's daughter, is in love with "The Kid", a shooting gallery showman. Despite Nan's prodding, ...
Little Caesar...
Gangster Movies: (ca. 1931) With Little Caesar and Public Enemy (1931) Warner Brothers established themselves as the Studio that could produce ...
Musketeers of Pig Alley...
Gangster Movies: (ca. 1912) This film heavily influenced Martin Scorsese in the making of his own gangster films. It was also ...Early Mob Movies
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The Big Heat
Gangster Movies: (ca. 1953) Detective Dave Bannion is an upright but unscrupulous cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague’s suicide and his fellow officers’ suspicious silence lead him to believe that they are on the gangsters’ payroll. When a [...]
