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Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)

Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)

Drama Crime

LAST OF THE GANGSTERS!

Release Date: 1944, June 3
Directors: Robert Florey
Countries: United States of America
Production: 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox
Cast: Addison Richards, Bess Flowers, Moroni Olsen, George E. Stone, Preston Foster, Anthony Quinn, Harry Morgan, Roy Roberts, Byron Foulger, Victor McLaglen, Frank Jenks, Frank Orth

Overview:

Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.

Keywords:

biography gangster irish mob b movie