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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)

Crime History

The Wildest Mobster of the Roaring Twenties!

Release Date: 1960, February 3
Directors: Budd Boetticher
Countries: United States of America
Production: United States Pictures, United States Pictures
Cast: Jimmy Walker, Frank De Kova, Dorothy Neumann, Bob Herron, Ron Nyman, Rudy Germane, Simon Oakland, George Taylor, Joseph Ruskin, Elaine Stewart, Mickey Golden, Robert Haines

Overview:

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.

Keywords:

new york city gangster mafia 1920s prohibition era