30's Gangster movies
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- DirectorGeorge W. HillStarsWallace BeeryLewis StoneJohnny Mack BrownAfter rising bootlegger Slaughterhouse Scorpio eliminates his gangland competition, two reporters and a cabal of six businessmen work to expose him.
- DirectorRobert J. HornerStarsJack PerrinJosephine HillRobert WalkerMarshal Jack is sent, undercover, into the bad lands to clean up a gang of Indians who have been terrorizing the local ranchers. Horses belonging to a ranch owner are stolen and the horse which was supposed to be in an endurance race is maimed. Jack is blamed for both deeds. He acquits himself and wins the race for The Colonel, after disclosing that the supposed band of Indians are a pack of white smugglers led by the ranch foreman.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJames CagneyJean HarlowEdward WoodsAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsMae ClarkeJames HallMarie PrevostGangster's moll Marcia Cameron (Mae Clark) quits her racketeering boyfriend Dapper Dan Tyler (Robert Ellis) for a respectable rich man, Bob Henderson (James Hall), but after giving birth to their child, her shady background becomes a liability. Bob is so embarrassed by her former associations that he sues for divorce. But Dapper Dan is gunned down by a detective and picky Bob forgives all.
- DirectorJoseph LeveringStarsCatherine Dale OwenJohn HollandRobert GlecklerA gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnGeorge MelfordStarsLeo CarrilloNoah BeeryMary BrianThe police use a gangster's son to get to him.
- DirectorZion MyersJules WhiteStarsBuster KeatonAnita PageCliff EdwardsA dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place.
- DirectorStuart PatonStarsCarmel MyersRex LeaseBarbara KentThe female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsEddie QuillanRobert ArmstrongGinger RogersEddie Quillan falls in love with a gangster's girlfriend but avoids trouble when he becomes friends with Robert Armstrong and his girlfriend
- DirectorStuart WalkerStarsKay FrancisWilliam 'Stage' BoydConway TearleA woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man; she comes to feel a true motherly love for the young man, and refuses to try to cheat him.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsGlenn TryonVera ReynoldsMarjorie BeebeA sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsJack MulhallPatsy Ruth MillerWalter McGrailA young couple finds themselves mixed up with mobsters planning to rob a warehouse.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsMary NolanJohn DavidsonMarjorie BeebeBelle (Mary Nolan), cafe waitress on the San Francisco docks, becomes the moll of small-time racketeer Vance (Jon Davidson), but a slumming novelist John Banning (Jason Robards Sr.), decides to rescue her from chosen seedy life.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsJerry VernoAnthony HollesEdgar NorfolkJerry Mason inherits a seaside hotel but discovers that a gang of robbers have buried their loot on the site where the hotel now stands.
- DirectorHoward HawksRichard RossonStarsPaul MuniAnn DvorakKaren MorleyAn ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsBuck JonesLoretta SayersWallace MacDonaldA policeman, working on a case against a local mobster and his gang, slips on some race-car-driver overalls and goggles and , in addition to stopping the mobsters in their tracks, wins a few races and the love of the daughter of the racetrack owner.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsPierre RenoirGeorges TérofWinna WinifriedInspector Maigret investigates the mysterious murder of a Dutch diamond dealer, found dead in a stolen car. The car belongs to an insurance agent, Michonnet, and has been abandoned in the garage belonging to Carl Andersen.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsLeon M. LionAnne GreyJohn StuartA gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.
- DirectorHarry L. FraserStarsRex BellMarceline DayMatthew BetzA cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west.
- DirectorCharles HutchisonStarsNoah BeeryDorothy BurgessMiriam SeegarWhile a ship's captain is being slowly poisoned, a gang of thugs try to take over the ship.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsPaul MuniGlenda FarrellHelen VinsonWrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
- DirectorAlbert RayStarsBetty CompsonClaudia DellTom DouglasRuth Payne, innocent to begin with, is trying to extradite herself from the clutches of a gang-mob who obtained her release from prison on a falsified confession because they thought she knew something they didn't want known. Maizie, the hard-boiled gang-moll and sweetie of the hard-boiled gang-boss comes to her aid.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsCarl MahonStarr CallowayAlice B. RussellAn undercover government agent on a case in Mississipi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss. He rescues the girl, and they leave Mississippi and head to Harlem, but their troubles follow them: they become involved in the murder of a local crime boss there.
- DirectorElliott NugentCharles ReisnerStarsErnest TruexUna MerkelEdward ArnoldA mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster who hopes to get the writer's help in devising the "perfect crime."
- DirectorHoward BrethertonWilliam KeighleyStarsBarbara StanwyckPreston FosterLyle TalbotAttractive Nan, member of a bank-robbery gang, goes to prison thanks to evangelist Dave Slade...who loves her.
- DirectorColbert ClarkAlbert HermanStarsBela LugosiViva TattersallMalcolm McGregorA mysterious criminal known as The Whispering Shadow commits crimes by means of a gang he controls by television and radio rays. Jack Norton, whose brother was murdered by The Whispering Shadow, suspects that the eerie Professor Strang - whose ghostly wax museum contains figures far too lifelike - may be involved in the crimes.
- DirectorArchie MayoMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyMadge EvansArthur ByronFive members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the state reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed deputy commissioner as a political favor, arrives - complete with hip flask and blonde. Gargan falls for activist nurse Dorothy and, inspired by her, takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. But Thompson, to conceal his years of graft, needs a quick way to discredit Gargan.
- DirectorPhil WhitmanStarsNick StuartMerna KennedyRoberta GaleA professional fighter decides to quit the sport and go to college, but he finds out that his sister has gotten mixed up with gangsters.
- DirectorVictor TrivasStarsVladimir SokoloffMadeleine OzerayMarcelle WormsA gang of poverty-ridden juvenile delinquents progress from petty theft to hard crime, but a kindly judge manages to set most of them on the right path after they are finally apprehended.
- DirectorRalph InceWilliam BoydStarsWilliam BoydCharles 'Chic' SaleDorothy WilsonGangsters come out West to hide out and the locals, led by a newcomer (William Boyd), fight them in self-defense before the local authorities arrive.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsCharles BickfordJudith AllenRichard CromwellHigh school students band together to dispense vigilante justice against a vicious gangland boss.
- DirectorAlbert HermanStarsJohn DarrowMerna KennedyNatalie MoorheadGangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJames CagneyMae ClarkeMargaret LindsayA former gangster makes it big in Hollywood, but his old life catches up with him.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsStarsDorothy SebastianFred KohlerLeon AmesA gang of escaped convicts hijacks a ship and heads for a remote island. On the way they pick up a young woman who's been shipwrecked.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsTim McCoyShirley GreyWheeler OakmanWhen newspaper reporter Tim Collins, of the "Post", is slugged while investigating the shooting of a big-time gambler, he sets out to get his man with such determination that he ends up in jail. There, he discovers a "parole racket" which involves a crooked politician, and he faces death to get the story for his paper.
- DirectorLupino LaneStarsAlbert BurdonRenee GaddMolly LamontA window cleaner bumps into an old flame, and the pair turn detective in an attempt to foil a gang of burglars.