35 here..My Mom got me hooked on these old classic when she visited me for the holidays. Im practically addicted at this point, I run through 2 or 3 a day
We were lucky kids 🚬🗿life in the big city sure has changed! I remember watching afternoon movies with Birney Herman or late night chiller theater on UHF Home of roller derby and wrestling. They even had bullfighting late at night🦬 Then the test pattern would play the national anthem then conclude today's broadcast🖖
Gangs of New York, released 23 May 1938 (USA), 10 August 1938 (London, UK), 9 January 1939 (UK). Charles Bickford as 'Rocky' Thorpe /John Franklyn; Ann Dvorak as Connie Benson; Alan Baxter as 'Dapper' Mallare; Wynne Gibson as Orchid; Harold Huber as Panatella; Willard Robertson as Inspector Sullivan; Maxie Rosenbloom as Tombstone; Charles Trowbridge as District/ Attorney Lucas; John Wray as Maddock; Jonathan Hale, Warden; Fred Kohler as Krueger; Howard Phillips as Al Benson; Robert Gleckler as Nolan; Elliott Sullivan as Hopkins; Maurice Cass as Phillips; Eddie Acuff, Motorist; Kernan Cripps, Detective; Lester Dorr, Newspaper Reporter; George Magrill, Henchman; Pat McKee, Henchman; Ralph Peters, Krueger's Driver; Carleton Young, Nolan's Henchman.
My great uncle Robert Gleckler is in this. He would go on to be cast in Gone With The Wind as Jonas Wikerson, the overseer of the slaves at Tara. He shot 2 scenes under director George Cukor. He died of uremic poisoning on Feb 25 1939 during a brief hiatus in the production.
Thank you for the broken trout .. all I ask is please try to get higher quality films .I am not super picky as I too grew up with low resolution black n white . But a few films on your channel make for annoying experiences. ..I watch anyways 😅😅😅 thank you for your contributions to people that can't find these hidden gems
The script for the the 1938 Gangs of New York was initially rejected by the Hays Office because of the gang violence and the suggestion of a sexual liaison between Rocky and Orchid. Additional problems included the mentioning of several specific cities, the extensive use of machine guns and the identification of the F.B.I. The Hays Office finally approved the script after most of the objectional material had been removed, and the completed picture was certified on April 25, 1938. The office also advised Republic that some censorship boards might object to the expression "punks," in reference to the gang members, and that New York state would most likely object to the title and the setting. Despite the Hays Office warnings, the New York state censorship board approved the picture without eliminations. Now that's what I call a great movie....many thanks!
It is worth noting that the screenplay, which has no relationship to the Asbury book (despite the credits and title), is written by Sam Fuller, former tabloid editor and later something of a auteur director and Hollywood maverick. And the director is James Cruze, whose career went down a peg after the heights of "The Covered Wagon."
Daniel Day-Lewis is a phenomenal actor. Didn't recognize him at all. But this was expected. More surprising is that I couldn't recognize neither Leo DiCaprio nor Cameron Diaz. Who would've thought that they could merge so well into their characters. Hats off to them!
That Daniel Day Lewis! He's SO talented! He's so convincing that TBH, I couldn't tell which character he was! To think he would play a 1930's actor playing a cop who's playing a criminal is simply amazing...I mean he LITERALLY looked JUST like Charles Bickford when he played Franklin
I couldn't agree more. Your confusion was entirely understandable. I had to go to film archives to research DDL's role. As it turns out, DDL played every character in the arrest scene at the end, including both women.
Dear MM SIZZLAK🙋♀️ I’m not understanding why you think Daniel Day-Lewis is in this film? There was ANOTHER Gangs if New York made in 2002, in which Daniel Day-Lewis DID play. This movie’s actors are adults in 1930-1940. If there’s something I’m missing, please let me know. Otherwise, you may want to check out Mr. Day-Lewis in the 2002 VERSION! God bless and safely keep you, in Jesus’s Precious Name, Amen!🕊💕🙏💜✝️✡️🙋♀️🌹
You are actually Daniel Day Lewis but you're so in character as a random TH-cam commenter that you've forgotten you were in this movie and are seeing your own acting for the first time.
Glad to see you out! Nobody’s deserve to been locked up in they oldin yeers. Least not non vilent croocks. I gotta feeling that you. U ain’t seem like a bad dood so I’m sure you was just chilling wit da wrong peoples, defanittly at that wrong time. But know you free OG and know you finna get yo chance to fulfill yo dreams . It ain’t never two late Og. Y’all tawt me that. Welcome back 👊🏾
This movie was absolutely modern to its time. But then a strange thing happens. The movie becomes a motion picture snapshot _of_ time. Technology evolves, science evolves, society evolves, culture evolves. Some may say culture and society _devolve_ . But it doesn't matter. Whatever happens, this motion picture, which was once completely contemporary to its time, becomes a time capsule. The way the actors talked, the way the scenes were staged, the quality of the film. It continues to sail quietly, smoothly through the decades. So, what will a motion picture that is contemporary to _today_ , look like in ten, twenty years?
Perhaps. This film was made in 1938, but the cars featured are the rectangular styles of the early 1930's. The quality cars of the late 1930's had sloping styling, often with rounded backs. The film may have been set in the early 1930's and not intended to be contemporary as the early 1930's was a time when mafia gangs were the most powerful. Many of the props such as candlestick phones and desk lamps are of earlier styles. Mafia gangs were less significant during the late 1930's due to the ending of Prohibition (bootleg booze and running clubs considerably boosted the mafia during Prohibition) and the capture or elimination of bosses such as Al Capone. The film is still just as much a time capsule though.
@@SpicyTexan64 : No. The American mafia began long before prohibittion - they first became notorious in 1869, emerging out of Sicilian immigrants - mafia activity has long roots in Sicily. Joe Morello was the first known significant crime boss, active until arrest in 1881. New Orleans police chief David Hennesey was murdered execution style in 1890, attributed to mafia. However the mafia did not become ubiquitous in certain major American cities until Prohibition was enacted in 1919. I did not say the mafia ended with the end of prohibition - they are still around today. However, just as making the supply of booze illegal without the support of the population gave the mafia a considerable boost, legallising it again took away much of their easy income. Also, in the later 1930's, the authorities made a concerted effort to cripple the mafia, as I said before. With these two factors the mafia ceased to be so ubiquitous. Another factor was Benito Mussolini taking over Italy in 1922 - this drove Italian mafia to emigrate to the US - this pretty much ceased by 1933 or so and many were arrested.
Say, Izumi. That's pretty good, see. Yeah, you're alright. If you wanna see how people haven't changed over time, read the Bible. See, people are the same today as back then. Get it? Yeah.
I long for the years when 'ganstas' dressed like gentlemen. You have to be a pretty well connected thug to have a shortwave radio set in your prison cell. Loved it BT. Keep 'em coming.
There are still plenty of well-dressed thugs and criminals in Washington DC (Disclaimer: I am pointing my finger at both sides here, please don't take this too seriously anyone 🙂)
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Realistically portrayed citizens/prisoners/guards. Enjoy viewing the automobiles/prison/phones/furniture/clothing from that era-!!!🤗. Don't recognise any of the players in this presentation-???🤔. Glad the national film archives have preserved these early movies-!!!😉. Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous (2024). 🌈🎉💵😉.
Im Italiano Mexicano, grandpa & dad got me watching this classics black & white, w/no fkng technology, but only raw quality acting. I njoy listening 2 dat old english tone & quick grammar
Blame Democrats. Without cops we could take care of our own business and crime would be wiped off the planet. But crime is business and it keeps Dems in power. Sometimes they turn against the police, until they need them to crack skulls.
The process photography in the final sequence is superb for the time (1938), every bit as convincing as Orson Welles' same process in "Citizen Kane" three years later. If you look closely, you can discern the vertical line separating the split frame photography in each shot. For example, at 1:04:44, there is an odd outside corner in the wall at center frame that is only there to disguise the split photography.
Yes it was well done. I was very much expecting a scene wherein the well dressed guy confronted both of them, each claiming to be the real one, and had to decide who of them to do in... didn't happen....!
This was probably shot in/on/a Hollywood soundstage and/or lots, anyway (so the scant exterior shots are probably stock footage of NYC edited in as well)
Imo, the first 3-4 years of a decade are really the continuation of the previous decade. So, this film really takes place in the '20s, slowly turning into the 30s. Most people think that mustache guy in Germany is still pretty ok. Most also dont know what, or where Pearl Harbor is. This is late in the Great Depression and most people have their own problems. If we could only warn them.....
I knew this was gonna happen. The 'new' Rocky has a heart. If this were made today, Rocky's girl would learn the truth. It would happen in the way he spoke with her, the way he treated her, but especially, - in the way he loved her.
I don't mean to be crass. I think there was an inference to sexual relations when the police were first discussing the wild idea if one going under cover. It was mentioned that just looking like and speaking like wasn't enough, that the girlfriend would know (wink wink)
There was nothing Lucky about Luppy Luciano. A Pimp with 900 brothels and no health care. Well you can add two plus two and come-up with Alcapone with Syphillis and Gonarea. But luck may be that things could have been worse.
Certainly not Warner Bros film quality. Just another story about a gangster named Rocky who is grumpy & grouchy unlike James Cagney’s charismatic portrayal of HIS gangster Rocky Sullivan. Last time I saw Ann Dvorak in a Warner Bros production was “G-Men” 1935 with Cagney. How did she end up in this B movie? (Ann’s husband had played w/Cagney in the legendary gangster flick “The Public Enemy”)
One of my top 3 movie favs of all time!! Was 13 when I first saw The Public Enemy in the ‘70s & was gobsmacked. Cagney immediately became my favorite actor & still is to this day.
PEOPLE PLEASE!!! THIS MOVIE IS NOT I REPEAT NOT RELATED TO THE GANGS OF NEW YORK WITH LEO DICAPRIO!!. IT HAS THE SAME TITLE NOT RELATED!!. This is way some movies title was CHANGE to avoid confusion. For example: The Matisse Falcon of 1931 w/Bebe Daniels & Ricardo Cortez was retitled "Dangerous Female" (for T.V. prints of the 1950's) so it was not confused with the 1941 most famous remake with Humphrey Bogart; Peter Lorre; Mary Astor; & Sidney Greenstreet. Only Turner Classic Movies restored the original title cards to the 1931 version for clarity.
LOL, ... "I've LIVED being Rocky, I'm even starting to think like him". (Given a picture of Rockys girlfriend). *"Whose This"???, ...* 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
35 here..My Mom got me hooked on these old classic when she visited me for the holidays. Im practically addicted at this point, I run through 2 or 3 a day
Born in 1948, I just love these old films!! Thank you for showing it, B.T.!!
I love you too❤ stay healthy it’s amazing you were born that year
I was born in 1942 and I love these films. To bad you can only put 1 like on them. LOL. I watch them many times.
@@francesrude3007 Same here - wish I could put 5 stars on these😊
God I Love movies like this. What an era for Film!
Yep. Many experts will always say that the greatest decade in Hollywood history still remains the 1930s. Although 1940s was close behind !
Thanks Trout! It’s wonderful to find one of these gems from one of my favourite genres!
As a child of the sixties, old movies have always been fascinating🖖
Same here x
Me too. back in 60s I watched Charlie Chan, Sherlock Holms, Rathbone only, Anything Bogie. My daughter won't watch a BW movie
We were lucky kids 🚬🗿life in the big city sure has changed!
I remember watching afternoon movies with Birney Herman or late night chiller theater on UHF Home of roller derby and wrestling.
They even had bullfighting late at night🦬
Then the test pattern would play the national anthem then conclude today's broadcast🖖
Gangs of New York, released 23 May 1938 (USA), 10 August 1938 (London, UK), 9 January 1939 (UK). Charles Bickford as 'Rocky' Thorpe /John Franklyn; Ann Dvorak as Connie Benson; Alan Baxter as 'Dapper' Mallare; Wynne Gibson as Orchid; Harold Huber as Panatella; Willard Robertson as Inspector Sullivan; Maxie Rosenbloom as Tombstone; Charles Trowbridge as District/ Attorney Lucas; John Wray as Maddock; Jonathan Hale, Warden; Fred Kohler as Krueger; Howard Phillips as Al Benson; Robert Gleckler as Nolan; Elliott Sullivan as Hopkins; Maurice Cass as Phillips; Eddie Acuff, Motorist; Kernan Cripps, Detective; Lester Dorr, Newspaper Reporter; George Magrill, Henchman; Pat McKee, Henchman; Ralph Peters, Krueger's Driver; Carleton Young, Nolan's Henchman.
My great uncle Robert Gleckler is in this. He would go on to be cast in Gone With The Wind as Jonas Wikerson, the overseer of the slaves at Tara. He shot 2 scenes under director George Cukor. He died of uremic poisoning on Feb 25 1939 during a brief hiatus in the production.
Awesome! You have any memorabilia?
The old black and white movies can be fun to watch 😊
Thanks, BT! Good drama, with good acting and a great story. Loved the police breaking through the wall and the ending.
I think that this is the only film that I have ever seen where the double plot line really works! Thanks for sharing.
Maurice Cass ( The old thin man ) Will play Professor Newton in " Rocky Jones , Space Ranger" in 1954.
Thank you for the broken trout .. all I ask is please try to get higher quality films .I am not super picky as I too grew up with low resolution black n white . But a few films on your channel make for annoying experiences. ..I watch anyways 😅😅😅 thank you for your contributions to people that can't find these hidden gems
Keep posting these as long as you can. Pieces of history. It’s always a wonder to me to think everyone in this film is long dead.
I love this!……say? U wouldn’t happen to have an mo videos ? Dos you?…….now scram! You here me! scram! You’ll neva catch me coppa !
Incredible cast !! Lots of 'A' movie character actors here.
The script for the the 1938 Gangs of New York was initially rejected by the Hays Office because of the gang violence and the suggestion of a sexual liaison between Rocky and Orchid. Additional problems included the mentioning of several specific cities, the extensive use of machine guns and the identification of the F.B.I. The Hays Office finally approved the script after most of the objectional material had been removed, and the completed picture was certified on April 25, 1938. The office also advised Republic that some censorship boards might object to the expression "punks," in reference to the gang members, and that New York state would most likely object to the title and the setting. Despite the Hays Office warnings, the New York state censorship board approved the picture without eliminations. Now that's what I call a great movie....many thanks!
interesting
It is worth noting that the screenplay, which has no relationship to the Asbury book (despite the credits and title), is written by Sam Fuller, former tabloid editor and later something of a auteur director and Hollywood maverick. And the director is James Cruze, whose career went down a peg after the heights of "The Covered Wagon."
Great movie I love em mobster flicks thanks
Love the oldies..Angels with dirty faces is my favorite i remember crying as a kid when Cagney went to the chair
Me too @bjeffrey1863
I never write anything but broken trout this was really great really great Thank you
Thank you for writing @Anna Warner I appreciate it very much.
Write what?
Love these old gangster movies
This is the most hilariously farfetched gangster flick I've had the pleasure of seeing AND it's got Ann Dvorak. Win/win!
It's pretty entertaining yes..
Ann can be a psycho. We’ve dated on an off for like 79 years. Great gal besides that
Daniel Day-Lewis is a phenomenal actor. Didn't recognize him at all. But this was expected. More surprising is that I couldn't recognize neither Leo DiCaprio nor Cameron Diaz. Who would've thought that they could merge so well into their characters. Hats off to them!
Alright youse guys! Ya betta shape up! Im runnin this gig see. We'll be back after a word from our sponsors see and den we'll finish off them coppers!
I love the old cars!
Fabulous movie thanks for sharing 🏁🎬📽️🎭
That Daniel Day Lewis! He's SO talented! He's so convincing that TBH, I couldn't tell which character he was! To think he would play a 1930's actor playing a cop who's playing a criminal is simply amazing...I mean he LITERALLY looked JUST like Charles Bickford when he played Franklin
I couldn't agree more. Your confusion was entirely understandable. I had to go to film archives to research DDL's role. As it turns out, DDL played every character in the arrest scene at the end, including both women.
According to IMDB, Daniel Day Lewis came up with the story during the time he was a bootlegger for Capone.
Dear MM SIZZLAK🙋♀️ I’m not understanding why you think Daniel Day-Lewis is in this film? There was ANOTHER Gangs if New York made in 2002, in which Daniel Day-Lewis DID play. This movie’s actors are adults in 1930-1940. If there’s something I’m missing, please let me know. Otherwise, you may want to check out Mr. Day-Lewis in the 2002 VERSION! God bless and safely keep you, in Jesus’s Precious Name, Amen!🕊💕🙏💜✝️✡️🙋♀️🌹
You are actually Daniel Day Lewis but you're so in character as a random TH-cam commenter that you've forgotten you were in this movie and are seeing your own acting for the first time.
another dumpster fire comment section and then i find this.
hahahha 😂
Born '56, grew up in the 60's, you've no idea how these movies, vehicles, style, is in the minds of recent pensioners!!!
You are not wrong.
What month
Glad to see you out! Nobody’s deserve to been locked up in they oldin yeers. Least not non vilent croocks. I gotta feeling that you. U ain’t seem like a bad dood so I’m sure you was just chilling wit da wrong peoples, defanittly at that wrong time. But know you free OG and know you finna get yo chance to fulfill yo dreams . It ain’t never two late Og. Y’all tawt me that. Welcome back 👊🏾
Good ol flick. Interesting to see Slappcy Maxie great boxer playing a mug. Tku for post.
Born in 1961.
Wish I lived in them times.
This movie was absolutely modern to its time. But then a strange thing happens. The movie becomes a motion picture snapshot _of_ time. Technology evolves, science evolves, society evolves, culture evolves. Some may say culture and society _devolve_ . But it doesn't matter. Whatever happens, this motion picture, which was once completely contemporary to its time, becomes a time capsule. The way the actors talked, the way the scenes were staged, the quality of the film. It continues to sail quietly, smoothly through the decades. So, what will a motion picture that is contemporary to _today_ , look like in ten, twenty years?
Perhaps. This film was made in 1938, but the cars featured are the rectangular styles of the early 1930's. The quality cars of the late 1930's had sloping styling, often with rounded backs. The film may have been set in the early 1930's and not intended to be contemporary as the early 1930's was a time when mafia gangs were the most powerful. Many of the props such as candlestick phones and desk lamps are of earlier styles. Mafia gangs were less significant during the late 1930's due to the ending of Prohibition (bootleg booze and running clubs considerably boosted the mafia during Prohibition) and the capture or elimination of bosses such as Al Capone.
The film is still just as much a time capsule though.
@@keithammleter3824 Mafia gangs began with prohibition but they didn't end with the end of prohibition.
@@SpicyTexan64 : No. The American mafia began long before prohibittion - they first became notorious in 1869, emerging out of Sicilian immigrants - mafia activity has long roots in Sicily. Joe Morello was the first known significant crime boss, active until arrest in 1881. New Orleans police chief David Hennesey was murdered execution style in 1890, attributed to mafia.
However the mafia did not become ubiquitous in certain major American cities until Prohibition was enacted in 1919. I did not say the mafia ended with the end of prohibition - they are still around today. However, just as making the supply of booze illegal without the support of the population gave the mafia a considerable boost, legallising it again took away much of their easy income. Also, in the later 1930's, the authorities made a concerted effort to cripple the mafia, as I said before. With these two factors the mafia ceased to be so ubiquitous.
Another factor was Benito Mussolini taking over Italy in 1922 - this drove Italian mafia to emigrate to the US - this pretty much ceased by 1933 or so and many were arrested.
For a 1938 movie, this is pretty good.
I like all the cars in it as well.
Say, Izumi. That's pretty good, see. Yeah, you're alright. If you wanna see how people haven't changed over time, read the Bible. See, people are the same today as back then. Get it? Yeah.
Thoroughly enjoyable. Love Charles Bickford.
I watched it because he was in "Song of Bernadette."
This was a great movie!! Any other suggestions?I had forgotten how much I love these classic gangster movies!!
I watched these movies on TCM years ago. I'm 51 now.
This is the way movies should be today. No vulgar language or sexual content so any age group could enjoy!!!
This my era! Take me back!
I long for the years when 'ganstas' dressed like gentlemen. You have to be a pretty well connected thug to have a shortwave radio set in your prison cell. Loved it BT. Keep 'em coming.
Your dream may come true soon
There are still plenty of well-dressed thugs and criminals in Washington DC
(Disclaimer: I am pointing my finger at both sides here, please don't take this too seriously anyone 🙂)
@@mc12358 You are so right. I wish more people WOULD take this seriously.
Fauci!
@@90FF1 The devil may be a serpent, but he has a Left and a Right arm and he is also ambidextrous.
Still a great movie. Good acting by “Dapper” and Rocky.
My Fathers young world 1930's.
I knew more about East coast gangsters than 90% of my 1960's - 1970's young friends.
Just came across your channel today, you have some great stuff here bud.
Some of the worst “taunting” in a prison I’ve ever heard! _Boo, nyaaa_
Disgraceful behaviour
Not having been in prison I'll take your word for it. Haha
But yeah, it was pretty funny.
@@secretsquirrel6308 Ha! I’m a retired police officer and have been inside many jails & one prison. They don’t say _Boo…nyaa_
@@robertansley6331 thank goodness , I've never heard such shocking language.
@@robertansley6331 nyaa I won't ask
Greetings from Washington DC. 75 years old, and love these old movies.
78 here in Northern Ontario, Canada and I too love these old gangster movies.
cool movies! thanks, excellent!
Springing the Guilty...Police faced the same issue in 1930 ...like 2022.
Pretty cool, just when I Was starting to fall in love with the characters, it ends!
Film Noir beats all genres (for me anyways) thanks BT!🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆
This film was not 'noir'.
Film Noir is my genre . It set a standard that still hasn’t been surpassed !
Charles Bickford was in the movies a long time and even years later he was the same in “The Big Country “!
He never seemed to look young.
Great flick, very underrrated!
Good show! Thank you.
Harold Huber (Panatella) never disappoints. He's always hilarious right from his first scene. Love it 😂😂
Yes, he was a great character actor.
Norm McDonald was great in this film.
😂
@@garrysekelli6776 I liked John Lovitz.
He's great....just don't shake hands with the mug.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Realistically portrayed citizens/prisoners/guards. Enjoy viewing the automobiles/prison/phones/furniture/clothing from that era-!!!🤗. Don't recognise any of the players in this presentation-???🤔. Glad the national film archives have preserved these early movies-!!!😉. Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous (2024). 🌈🎉💵😉.
Quite an interesting sleeper movie. The only actress I recognized was Anne Dvork.
Those eyes.Check Scarface.
@@keithharvey7230 And Three On A Match. She was amazing in that.
*you didn't recognize Charles Bickford?!?* 🤔
'betcha can't pronounce her name as she did.
Watch enough gangsta movies made in the 30s and 40s, and you will recognize them all
Ann Dvorak never got good breaks. Not only beautiful to look at but a much better actress than most from that era.
I’d watch anything with Harold Huber. A national treasure gone way too soon… just my opinion. TY Trout!
Nice little movie. Interesting and entertaining. Good quality print, too.
this is a great "midnight" movie. lot's of fun.
Im Italiano Mexicano, grandpa & dad got me watching this classics black & white, w/no fkng technology, but only raw quality acting. I njoy listening 2 dat old english tone & quick grammar
It seems more like a Saturday Matinee yarn than a serious movie, even for it's time.
Another winner here, BT. Great film. Just one thing, though. I wonder if Rocky realised his girlfriend's name is Greek for testicle (Orchid).
LOL, My thanks to you for that Movie Monster!
Really enjoyed This 🆒👍❤️💯🌹
The scar comes and goes. Sometimes it’s there and sometimes it’s not.
I love this. Back when they pretended like the cops didn’t all have their hands out and totally involved in the rackets
Tell me, when that weasel lawyer first handed that court order to the commisioner if you didn't think it was payola. I surely did.
Back than a lot of ppl had to take what they could get. Making ends meet were a hard thing to do back in the day.
Blame Democrats. Without cops we could take care of our own business and crime would be wiped off the planet. But crime is business and it keeps Dems in power. Sometimes they turn against the police, until they need them to crack skulls.
some they did some they didnt, just like nowdays
*Well, this certainly is a thrilling story, its very plot does not leave the film the opportunity not to be a thriller. Like 34*
Very true @LOYAL WARRIOR
The process photography in the final sequence is superb for the time (1938), every bit as convincing as Orson Welles' same process in "Citizen Kane" three years later. If you look closely, you can discern the vertical line separating the split frame photography in each shot. For example, at 1:04:44, there is an odd outside corner in the wall at center frame that is only there to disguise the split photography.
Yes it was well done. I was very much expecting a scene wherein the well dressed guy confronted both of them, each claiming to be the real one, and had to decide who of them to do in... didn't happen....!
A secret jail cell for the governors enemies. Cool
early Noir crime. Shame they didn't show more exteriors of NYC 1938...
Hello Frankie, not much on the exteriors but plenty of wiseguys to go around though.
@@BrokenTrout Like this movie anyways but love to see some history. In the latter movies -till today- they did more exteriors. Love them
This was probably shot in/on/a Hollywood soundstage and/or lots, anyway (so the scant exterior shots are probably stock footage of NYC edited in as well)
THANK YOU BROKEN TROUT I LIKE THIS MOVIE 2 GOOD MOVIES THIS EVENING
Your very welcome RSC, Thank you for checking the film out.
@@BrokenTrout I ALWAYS ENJOY WATCHING CHARLES BICKFORD MOVIES
@@RetiredSchoolCook He was a good actor.
Hard to imagine running those late 30s limousines through a high speed chase, when today, they're worth more than $200k each...
That was then.
Accounting for inflation, they were worth >$200,000 then.
During WW2 they were scrap.
Even that ambulance would be a collectors gem now !
@@catherinecrow5662 Absolutely.
I can lose myself nicely in these old movies. 👍💙
Wow Good upload first time seeing this really Good Movie thanks for the upload!!!!
Wow! The great Sam Fuller before the war and before he started directing!
That was terrific. I wonder if the Sam Fuller in the screenplay credits is THE Sam Fuller? I really enjoyed this.
Yeah, it's him. That's how I got here lol. Was reading up on his early work.
Yup
Good movie. The " gangster dialog" is killer . Hehehe
I didn’t realize that the modern version was based on an older film; it’ll be interesting to see how similar they are.😉😄
Engagements sure were short in the good old days 😂 The end
"Y'all never keep me here..I"ll get sprung in the morning..ya chump"
thank you
Good movie broken trout enjoyable movie 🤙
I thought so Robert, it moves right along. Thanks for watching.
Love these movie CLASSICS !
Imo, the first 3-4 years of a decade are really the continuation of the previous decade. So, this film really takes place in the '20s, slowly turning into the 30s. Most people think that mustache guy in Germany is still pretty ok. Most also dont know what, or where Pearl Harbor is. This is late in the Great Depression and most people have their own problems. If we could only warn them.....
thankyoou mr trout for helping me to deal with covid 19
your very welcome @Lisa Godin
Charles Bickford still had the same voice almost 20 years later in “The Big Country “ with his course voice evident as always.
Very good, but I think the ending is unconvincing.
I knew this was gonna happen. The 'new' Rocky
has a heart.
If this were made today, Rocky's girl would learn the truth. It would happen in the way he spoke with her, the way he treated her, but especially, - in the way he loved her.
I don't mean to be crass. I think there was an inference to sexual relations when the police were first discussing the wild idea if one going under cover. It was mentioned that just looking like and speaking like wasn't enough, that the girlfriend would know (wink wink)
Rocky's girl was some of the goofiest acting i have ever seen.
just ridiculous.
Saayyy! What's the idea?
If he don't show, I'm comin' after him, see?!!
Great movie!
Str8 up winner..great movie of a bygone era
Wow, a young Sam Fuller got a story and screenplay credit on this!
Thanks.👍🧐💫
Wow the first actor in the line up really looked like lucky Luciano in boardwalk empire. Striking resemblance…
There was nothing Lucky about Luppy Luciano. A Pimp with 900 brothels and no health care. Well you can add two plus two and come-up with Alcapone with Syphillis and Gonarea. But luck may be that things could have been worse.
I remember seeing a movie like this but wow
I'm liking the gangsters eating ice-cream 😅
I was gonna say something about that... Today's gangsters will b too "gangsta" to b eating ice cream like that 😂
Such a beautiful classic ❤
I especially liked the part where the ventriloquist dummy was staring at the girl and planning her murder.. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👦👴😯😯💆👯
That was the best part!!!!
Certainly not Warner Bros film quality. Just another story about a gangster named Rocky who is grumpy & grouchy unlike James Cagney’s charismatic portrayal of HIS gangster Rocky Sullivan.
Last time I saw Ann Dvorak in a Warner Bros production was “G-Men” 1935 with Cagney. How did she end up in this B movie?
(Ann’s husband had played w/Cagney in the legendary gangster flick “The Public Enemy”)
That is my favorite movie! 🎥
One of my top 3 movie favs of all time!! Was 13 when I first saw The Public Enemy in the ‘70s & was gobsmacked. Cagney immediately became my favorite actor & still is to this day.
Ohh bummer I thought this might be an earlier version of that Daniel Day-Lewis Leo DiCaprio masterpiece
😊 thanks
The only thing this film has in common with the great novel, " The Gangs of New York "
is the title.
Great Novel? It was more like a police manual.
PEOPLE PLEASE!!! THIS MOVIE IS NOT I REPEAT NOT RELATED TO THE GANGS OF NEW YORK WITH LEO DICAPRIO!!. IT HAS THE SAME TITLE NOT RELATED!!. This is way some movies title was CHANGE to avoid confusion. For example: The Matisse Falcon of 1931 w/Bebe Daniels & Ricardo Cortez was retitled "Dangerous Female" (for T.V. prints of the 1950's) so it was not confused with the 1941 most famous remake with Humphrey Bogart; Peter Lorre; Mary Astor; & Sidney Greenstreet. Only Turner Classic Movies restored the original title cards to the 1931 version for clarity.
It's the same movie. This was the rough cut before going thru editing.
Yeah it has much better talent for acting.
LOL, ... "I've LIVED being Rocky, I'm even starting to think like him". (Given a picture of Rockys girlfriend). *"Whose This"???, ...* 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Im gonna bring back the hats they wore back then n the way they used to talk lol
Excellent
Mel Blanc MUST have used the cop's voice for the gangster opposite bugs bunny.