Crime DOES pay (sometimes)
Annie Van Auken | Planet Earth | 06/01/2007
(3 out of 5 stars)
"For discriminating crooks and thugs everywhere--
BRENTWOOD's GANGSTERS offers ten mid-20th century crime dramas, several of which have become quite obscure. So, all you mob guys oughta grab your gats and spats, your moll and your haul, and lay low until the coast is clear. Meanwhile get a load of these here picture shows!
(If you like gangster cinema, check out CRIME CLASSICS 50 MOVIE PACK. Talk about your bad guys!)
Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website.
(5.9) Behave Yourself! (1951) - Farley Granger/Shelley Winters/William Demarest/Sheldon Leonard
(6.5) The Chase (1946) - Robert Cummings/Steve Cochran/Peter Lorre
(5.0) Gang Busters (1955) - Myron Healey/Don C. Harvey/Frank Gerstle
(5.5) Gangs, Inc. ("Paper Bullets") (1941) - Joan Woodbury/Jack LaRue/Alan Ladd (in support)
(4.3) The Gangster Story (1960) - Walter Matthau/Carol Grace/Vic Tayback (uncredited)
(6.3) The Hoodlum (1951) - Lawrence Tierney
(5.9) Lady Gangster (1942) - Faye Emerson/Jackie Gleason
(5.2) Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960) - Lurene Tuttle/Tristam Coffin/Don Grady
(5.2) They Made Me A Criminal (1939) - John Garfield/The Dead End Kids
(7.2) Too Late for Tears (1949) - Lizabeth Scott/Don DeFore/Dan Duryea"