Law of the Underworld (1938)
By Day, a Polo-Playing Socialite...By Night, King of the Racket Mob!
Género : Crimen, Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 1M
Director : Lew Landers
Escritor : Bert Granet, Edmund L. Hartmann
Sinopsis
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
La vida de la bulliciosa animadora Texas Guinan se recuerda desde su pobre infancia con un padre con mala suerte hasta su reinado como la Reina de los Clubes Nocturnos. En el camino, también encuentra el romance y la angustia.
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to frame him for the crime. With the police after him, he calls on some of his old acquaintances to help clear his name and avenge the woman's death.
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
A gorgeous girl named Katie inherits her deceased uncle's business and decides that she too can be a businesswoman and hire two hot girlfriends. Katie doesn't like the brothel part so she gets rid of that and is soon giving legit massages. The mob doesn't like this and Katie is quickly being muscled by mob goons to turn up the heat or pay. Katie soon discovers more about the massage-parlor than she had wished.
A peddler of Buddhist amulets runs afoul of a powerful gangster by trying to buy the freedom of a woman he loves, with comically complicated results.
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, Armendáriz falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
A Los Angeles teacher becomes a mob target when he agrees to be a star witness in a gangland murder case.
Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. Times change, the boys up the chain want a bigger profit, so Vinnie's expendable He's assigned a hotheaded kid, Tony, the nephew of a local mobster. Vinnie's told to school the lad, use him for collections, and teach him some sense. What Vinnie doesn't know is that once Tony learns the ropes, Vinnie will be out. Tensions mount when Tony goes around Vinnie's paternalistic ways, takes a bet from an unemployed alcoholic, and demands that the loser's wife pay the vig in trade. Is there any way out for Vinnie - with or without his good name?
Ascensión y caída de un gangster de la mafia, basado en la vida del asesinado gangster de Nueva York "Crazy" Joey Gallo.
Thriller urbano centrado en el enfrentamiento entre un hombre normal y un peligroso asesino al servicio de unos mafiosos que secuestra por error al lánguido protagonista.
When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living in the country with his mother. Rogers has naïve Edward brought to the city and installs him as the head of Acme Protective Agency. Good-hearted Eddy assumes his company provides insurance, rather than extortion-- But don't be too hard on the guy, he still doesn't know he's Baby Face Morgan, the most feared gangster in the city!
A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster.
Jake Brigges, un escritor fracasado y engañado por su mujer, decide romper con todo y trasladarse de Nueva York a Atlantic City. Allí es salvado de una muerte segura por Frankie, un matón a sueldo con el que termina entablando una amistad y se involucra con él en sus sucios negocios. Todo marcha bien, hasta que Jake se enamora de la chica de Frankie.
Un verdugo decapita al gran criminal número 1000. Todo esto trae como consecuencia la liberación de un ejército de demonios. Ahora él y su sucesor deberán luchar como nunca antes.
Madsen plays an assassin who's hired to kill the woman he loves.
A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.
Un descendiente del famoso vampiro obtiene trabajo como fotógrafo de modelos, situación que da lugar a las distintas alternativas de esta mezcla de comedia erótica y terror proveniente del cine europeo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Antonio Maggadino, dueño de una agencia de transportes de San Francisco, es un temido jefe de la mafia, en cuya órbita se mueven muchos hombres bajo sus "consejos". Entre ellos están Lucchese, dueño de una bolera, Garofalo, al frente de una lavandería y Dallamano, propietario de unos almacenes. Tras ellos se mueve el mundo del crimen organizado. Y más atrás aún, un oscuro personaje, Dieterle, sargento de policía, que colabora en secreto con la mafia. Garofalo en secreto ambiciona destronar a Maggadino y ocupar el puesto de Consejero...
The film is about the workers unpaid for six years who decide to lay down the driveway in front of their factory. Oki is an unemployed factory worker and union leader. His son Gruja is a movie director unemployed for ten years, he shoots weddings and funerals in order to survive and save enough money to shoot his first feature film. White, unemployed opera singer and Gruja's girlfriend, is trying to make money by singing opera arias from house to house. The story is about ruined factories and workers without someone to lead them to a better life.
