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Kelly was an American gangster during the Prohibition era. His nickname came from his favorite weapon, a Thompson submachine gun. His most famous crime was the kidnapping of oil tycoon and businessman Charles Urschel in July 1933, for which he and his gang earned $200,000 ransom. [1] [2] John Allen Kendrick: 1897–1960
1933: Lady Killer: Roy Del Ruth: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Leslie Fenton: United States: Gangster film [27] The Little Giant: Roy Del Ruth: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Helen Vinson: United States [28] The Mayor of Hell: Archie Mayo: James Cagney, Madge Evans, Allen Jenkins: United States [29] The Midnight Club: George Somnes, Alexander Hall
Nine gangster films were released in 1930, 26 in 1931, 28 in 1932, and 15 in 1933, when the genre's popularity began to subside after the end of Prohibition. [28] The backlash against gangster pictures was swift. In 1931 Jack L. Warner announced that his studio would stop making them, and that he had never let his 15-year-old son see one. [29]
The movie is hailed as a classic in the gangster movie genre, [2] [3] and considered an homage to the classic gangster movie of the early 1930s. [4] The Roaring Twenties was the third and last film that Cagney and Bogart made together. The other two were Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and The Oklahoma Kid (1939).
Pages in category "American gangsters of the interwar period" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 242 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Kansas City massacre was the shootout and murder of four law enforcement officers and a criminal fugitive at the Union Station railroad depot in Kansas City, Missouri, on the morning of June 17, 1933. It occurred as part of the attempt by a gang led by Vernon C. "Verne" Miller to free Frank "Jelly" Nash, a federal prisoner.
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Crime drama, Gangster film 1928: The Big City: Tod Browning: Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Betty Compson: United States: The Dragnet: Josef von Sternberg, Helen Lewis: George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell: United States: Crime drama Ladies of the Mob: William Wellman: Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Helen Lynch, Carl Gerard: United States ...