Law of the Underworld (1938)
By Day, a Polo-Playing Socialite...By Night, King of the Racket Mob!
Жанр : криминал, драма
Время выполнения : 1Ч 1М
Директор : Lew Landers
Писатель : Bert Granet, Edmund L. Hartmann
Краткое содержание
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
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.
Во времена мексиканской революции генерал повстанцев Хосе Хуан Рейес и его войско захватывают консервативный город Чолула, расположенный недалеко от Мехико. Генерал требует от самых богатых горожан пожертвований на мексиканскую революцию. Однако его планы нарушаются, когда он влюбляется в сеньориту Беатрис Пенафьель, своенравную дочь самого богатого человека города.
A Los Angeles teacher becomes a mob target when he agrees to be a star witness in a gangland murder case.
Винни Глинн - хозяин подпольного тотализатора, находящегося под опекой могущественной итальянской мафиозной семьи, однажды с удивлением узнает о новом компаньоне - молодом головорезе Тони. Отдавший бизнесу 30 лет жизни, Винни возмущен подобным решением, но решает выждать. Однако бесцеремонность и жестокость этого юнца вынуждают его действовать, нарушая все законы преступного мира.
The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.
Рассказ о гангстерах, наемных убийцах и невероятных связях, запутанных в один узел. По нелепому стечению обстоятельств произошла ошибка и совершено заказное нападение не на ту семью и похищен другой ребенок. В поисках исчезнувшего сына отец готов на все… Возможно, он станет очередной мишенью для гангстеров, но он не собирается становиться их очередной жертвой.
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.
Нью-Йоркский журналист Джейк Бриджес при необычных обстоятельствах знакомится с мелким гангстером Фрэнки. Джейк соглашается стать «проводником» Фрэнки в мире большой литературы, а тот берется познакомить Джейка с изнанкой уличной жизни.
An executioner beheads his 1000th criminal, and unleashes a demon army headed by an evil witch called the Blood Lotus
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.
An ancestor of the famous vampire gets a job as a photographer shooting beautiful fashion models at the family estate.
When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of the code, and a bloody mob war breaks out. It is only through the strong support of his family connections in Sicily that Don Antonio is able to survive the mêlée and come out on top. Aghast at the situation he has caused, the godson becomes his leader's "consigliere," or Counselor at Crime.
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.