Blondie Johnson
"LOVE made her beautiful... WANT made her daring... MEN made her ruthless!"
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
"LOVE made her beautiful... WANT made her daring... MEN made her ruthless!"
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
Joan Blondell
Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson
Chester Morris
R. Burton "Danny" Jones
Allen Jenkins
Louie
Earle Foxe
Al Scannel
Claire Dodd
Gladys LaMann
Mae Busch
Mae
Joseph Cawthorn
Jewelry Store Manager (as Joe Cawthorn)
Olin Howland
Eddie
Sterling Holloway
Red Charley
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last?
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful part of his life. He seeks the help of a therapist and meets a woman in the waiting room that he connects with.
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children. He is determined to leave a positive legacy for his grandson, but the criminal underworld isn’t done with him and won’t loosen their grip willingly.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.
Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.