Gangster's Boy

Nov 16, 1938

1h 20m

★ 5.0

Yesterday CHEERED! Today SHUNNED!

Overview

A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Monogram Pictures

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Cast

Larry Kelly

Jackie Cooper

Tim Kelly

Robert Warwick

Julia Davis

Lucy Gilman

Mrs. Kelly

Louise Lorimer

Bill Davis

Tommy Wonder

Judge Davis

Selmer Jackson

Mrs. Davis

Betty Blythe

Principal

Huntley Gordon

Butler

Herbert Evans

District Attorney

William Gould

Sergeant

Jack Kennedy

Salvatore

Bobby Stone

Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.

6.5

The Racket

Nov 1, 1928

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

6.5

Ziegfeld Girl

Apr 25, 1941

Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.

7.1

Baby Boy

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The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different women-Yvette and Peanut but still lives with his own mother. He can't seem to strike a balance or find direction in his chaotic life.

7.6

Blood Diamond

Dec 8, 2006

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

6.4

The Story of Temple Drake

May 6, 1933

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.

4.8

I Cover the Waterfront

May 19, 1933

An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.

6.2

City Streets

Apr 18, 1931

A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.

6.7

Night Nurse

Jul 16, 1931

Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.

4.5

Roadhouse Nights

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Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too brutal and cynical even for pre-Code Hollywood.

5.0

The Helen Morgan Story

Oct 2, 1957

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.

5.5

Broadway

May 8, 1942

Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.

4.1

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6.4

Dance, Fools, Dance

Feb 7, 1931

When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, her naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.

3.0

Of One Blood

Jan 1, 1944

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5.1

Hell's House

Jan 30, 1932

A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.

3.8

Gal Young 'Un

Sep 24, 1979

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4.7

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5.0

Sanctuary

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6.1

The Guilty Generation

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