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Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)

Directed by Robert Florey

Overview

Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy’s rise from small time thug to the city’s most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil “the Owl” Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.

Rated NR | Length 65 minutes

Actors

George E. Stone | Harry Morgan | Anthony Quinn | Matt Briggs | Moroni Olsen | Roy Roberts | Frank Jenks | Frank Orth | Grant Withers | Victor McLaglen | Preston Foster | Reed Hadley | John Archer | William Post Jr. | Trudy Marshall | Kent Taylor | Byron Foulger | Addison Richards | Charles Lang | Kane Richmond | Bess Flowers | Lois Andrews