George Raft's Gangsters
Some say he was a real gangster. Had notorious gangsters as
friends, including Bugsy Siegel and Owney Madden, and also many mob connections.
With a Strong New York accent, didn't need to act as a wise guy, he was a natural!
Born and raised in Hell's Kitchen, he was really tough, and didn't need to make an effort to seem like a gangster.
Definitely one of my favorite actors!
friends, including Bugsy Siegel and Owney Madden, and also many mob connections.
With a Strong New York accent, didn't need to act as a wise guy, he was a natural!
Born and raised in Hell's Kitchen, he was really tough, and didn't need to make an effort to seem like a gangster.
Definitely one of my favorite actors!
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- DirectorHoward HawksRichard RossonStarsPaul MuniAnn DvorakKaren MorleyAn ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.
- DirectorRowland BrownStarsSpencer TracyMarguerite ChurchillSally EilersTruck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he plots to kidnap her on her wedding day.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsGeorge RaftConstance CummingsWynne GibsonA successful ex-boxer opens a high-class speakeasy in what once was the childhood home of a formerly rich society girl.
- DirectorJames FloodStarsGeorge RaftNancy CarrollRoscoe KarnsWhen his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police.
- DirectorAlexander HallGeorge SomnesStarsClive BrookGeorge RaftHelen VinsonElegant Colin Grant and his associates are successful jewelry thieves, even unmasked to their victims, their perfect alibis making it impossible for the Comissioner police to arrest them. Things are running smoothly until Nick Mason enters the scene--and flirts with Colin's love interest.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsWallace BeeryGeorge RaftJackie CooperIn New York's Bowery during the Gay Nineties, a saloon owner and a rebel share a rivalry.
- DirectorAlexander HallStarsGeorge RaftJean ParkerAnna May WongFresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seedy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs a smoky nightclub. He falls for a low-class white pickpocket, diminishing his pride in the Chinese half of his heritage and sparking the jealousy of the nightclub's moody star performer.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsGeorge RaftClaire DoddEdward ArnoldEd Beaumont is the personal friend, advisor and bodyguard to Paul Madvig, the political boss of a large city. When a mysterious murder is committed---the son of a Madvig political opponent---Madvig's enemies try to pin the crime on him because he is waging a clean-up campaign they oppose. Ed risks his life and his reputation to find the killer and clear his friend.
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsGeorge RaftBen BernieGrace BradleyBandleader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsGeorge RaftJoan BennettWalter ConnollyThe wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of patriarch Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered, bubble-headed wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such. His spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do in order to bring the unruly brats under control. This is even more difficult than it seems as Carol defies him at every turn, and his old gang is trying to get him back in the business.
- DirectorAlexander HallStarsGeorge RaftDolores CostelloIda LupinoCasino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear that he could follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney, a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsSylvia SidneyGeorge RaftBarton MacLaneAn altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJames CagneyGeorge RaftJane BryanA corrupt D.A. (Thurston Hall) with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter (James Cagney) for manslaughter in order to silence him.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsGeorge RaftJane BryanWilliam HoldenAn ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsGeorge RaftJoan BennettLloyd NolanAn aircraft designer falls for the wife of an imprisoned gangster. All goes well until the gangster gets out of prison...
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsGeorge RaftSylvia SidneyStanley RidgesA rich society woman uses a gangster to win a congressional election.
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsGeorge RaftWilliam BendixMarilyn MaxwellIn San Francisco, when a bookie is murdered by a protection racket syndicate, his bookie friend Dan Gannin and police lieutenant Barney Runson investigate.
- DirectorTed TetzlaffStarsGeorge RaftNina FochGeorge MacreadyTreasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsRobert TaylorJanet LeighGeorge RaftAfter witnessing a murder, honest cop Eddie Kelvaney is silenced by gangster Dan Beaumonte, prompting Eddie's brother, Detective Chris Kelvaney, to search for the killer.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsEdward G. RobinsonGeorge RaftAudrey Totter-In Montreal (Canada), a police inspector slowly discovers a plot to kidnap a nuclear physicist, American mobsters, foreign spies, and a blonde seductress, are all involved.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsMarilyn MonroeTony CurtisJack LemmonAfter two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
- DirectorDenys de La PatellièreStarsJean GabinGert FröbeGeorge RaftIn Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. Also, an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggler's business.