The Purple Gang

1959
Not Rated
1h 25min

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Agrega una trama en tu idiomaThe story of the infamous Purple Gang, a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920s' Detroit.The story of the infamous Purple Gang, a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920s' Detroit.The story of the infamous Purple Gang, a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920s' Detroit.

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Barry Sullivan

Police Lt. William P. Harley

Robert Blake

William Joseph 'Honeyboy' Willard

Elaine Edwards

Gladys Harley

Marc Cavell

Henry Abel 'Hank' Smith

Jody Lawrance

Joan MacNamara

Suzanne Ridgway

Daisy
(as Suzy Marquette)

Joe Turkel

Eddie Olsen
(as Joseph Turkel)

Victor Creatore

Al Olsen

Paul Dubov

Thomas Allen 'Killer' Burke

Ray Boyle

Tom Olsen
(as Dirk London)

Kathleen Lockhart

Nestor Paiva

Laurence Orlofsky

Lou Krugman

Dr. Riordan

Robert Anderson

Police Commissioner

Mauritz Hugo

Licovetti

James Roosevelt

Self in Prologue
(as Congressman James Roosevelt)

Don Ames

Citizen
(sin créditos)

Benjie Bancroft

Police Officer
(sin créditos)

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Trivia
The real Purple Gang was made up of mostly Jewish members. The script of this film gave the members non-Jewish names.

Citas
Joan MacNamara: [after she sees Harley backhand a boy, grabs Harley's arm] He's just a boy! I'm from the welfare department.
[shows her badge]
Police Lt. William P. Harley: [to the desk sergeant] Book him, book all of 'em.
[he starts to walks away]
Joan MacNamara: Now wait a minute.
[she grabs his arm, turns him towards her]
Joan MacNamara: Some of these young men are- are underage!
Police Lt. William P. Harley: They're not young men, miss, they're hoodlums.
Joan MacNamara: There is a law in this state that says no juvenile can be locked up with an adult criminal.
Police Lt. William P. Harley: I know the law, miss. I've already got a special tank prepared just for them. Does that satisfy you?
Joan MacNamara: [with attitude] No. The whole system is wrong. Those boys should not be locked up at all. You see, what youth needs now days is a little psychological adjustment.
Police Lt. William P. Harley: [interrupts, moves closer] They're three-syllable words, lady. How do you expect a policeman to understand them?
[walks away]

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[Prologue] This picture is based on information from official files which revealed the shocking story of the wave of juvenile delinquency which spawned Detroit's Purple Gang. Incredible as it may seem, this youthful rat-pack of terrorists dominated the city's underworld for more than a decade during the prohibition era.

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Not a purple patch

The Purple Gang was a mob of bootleggers and hijackers with predominantly Jewish members operating in Detroit, Michigan, during the 1920s. They came to be Detroit's dominant criminal gang, but ultimately excessive violence and infighting caused the gang to self-destruct in the 1930s. This Allied Artists production, leveraged by a goodly amount of footage lifted from earlier films, plays fast and loose with what was an interesting history in a production weighted by two excellent leads, Sullivan and Blake, and which contains two or three memorably violent scenes while Blake's screaming claustrophobia offers other choice moments. Ultimately not one of the genre stand outs (for that one needs to seek out such titles as AL CAPONE or the RISE AND FALL OF LEGS DIAMOND etc) it is never the less a entertaining enough time waster even if it ends up feeling rather perfunctory. Sullivan's best gangster film, imho, is the appropriately named THE GANGSTER.