Portrait of a Mobster
– A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the lif..
Release Date:
21 Dec 1961
Language:
English
Director:
Joseph Pevney
Writer:
Howard Browne, Harry Grey (book)
Main Actors:
Vic Morrow, Leslie Parrish, Peter Breck, Norman Alden
Plot:
This movie portrays the rise and fall of 1920s gangster Dutch Schultz. While building his own mob ring, he romances Iris, the daughter of a man he killed. When Iris marries a cop, Schultz makes sure the cop goes bad and takes kickbacks from Schultz's organization. Iris goes back to the arms of Schultz, not knowing he's the man who killed her father.
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