Gangster's Boy (1938)
Yesterday CHEERED! Today SHUNNED!
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 20M
Director : William Nigh
Escritor : Robert Hardy Andrews
Sinopse
A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
Quando a Guerra Civil se enfurece na década de 1990 em Serra Leoa, dois homens, um branco sul-africano mercenário e um pescador negro, se juntam em uma busca para recuperar uma joia rara que tem o poder de transformar suas vidas. Com a ajuda de uma jornalista norte-americana, os homens embarcam em uma jornada perigosa através do território rebelde para conseguir seu objetivo.
Jody (Tyrese) é um jovem de 20 anos que se vê em meio a uma série de problemas: ele está atualmente desempregado, tem dois filhos e não suporta o atual namorado de sua mãe. Jody deseja sair de casa e recomeçar sua vida com a atual namorada, mas a mãe de seus filhos sempre o acaba prendendo na atual casa. Em meio a estes problemas, Jody ainda tem que lidar com o fato de seu melhor amigo estar disposto a voltar para uma gangue de rua e de que o namorado de uma ex-namorada está atrás dele.
Depois que o esperto garoto Raees cresce e se torna o rei do contrabando de Gujarat nos anos 1980, ele tenta equilibrar sua vida de crimes ajudando outras pessoas.
Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin (Robert Mitchum) makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon (Trevor Bardette), but won't let his younger brother Robin (James Mitchum) join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan (Jacques Aubuchon), who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett (Gene Barry), who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.
Frankie Madison retorna a Nova York depois de 14 anos de prisão. Noll Turner, ex-parceiro de Frankie em contrabando, é agora um rico gerente de boate, e Frankie está esperando que ele honre um acordo verbal de 'meio-a-meio' que eles fizeram quando ele foi pego e Noll escapou. Chance gorda! Será que Frankie, que conhece apenas os métodos violentos da Lei Seca, vai vencer no Big Business? Vai ser difícil... mesmo com a improvável ajuda da cantora Kay, a ex-namorada de Noll. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
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.
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.
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
The three surviving daughters of a murdered moonshiner band together with a racecar driver to run high-test shine behind the corpulent backs of the local likker syndicate.
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
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, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law.
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime underworld with brute force and corrupting many touchable individuals. Until the day the head of the Untouchables Brigade, Eliot Ness, entered the scene. Since then, a cruel battle between the two of them began, a battle that ended in trial, conviction, disease, insanity and death.