Robert Rossen
1) The hustler
Language
English
Description
Itinerant pool shark challenges the top man for the championship, sacrificing everything until he realizes the stakes are too high.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, young Joe Bell also gets picked up for vagrancy and forced to work on a rock farm. A showdown with his sadistic foreman ends in accidental death. Joe runs away with the foreman's stepdaughter, and waits for his fate.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charley Davis, a strong-willed young prizefighter whose ruthless quest for a shot at the title forces him to mortgage his humanity to a corrupt boxing syndicate. But when faced with the chance to regain his self-respect, Charley climbs into the ring one last time--in an unforgettable climatic fight scene.
Series
Warner Bros. Pictures gangsters volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A World War I veteran (Cagney) returns to New York, innocently becomes involved in bootlegging, builds up an empire and dies in a gang war. Set against a background of newsreel-like montages and narration.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (349 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The public enemy: A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war--www.imdb.com.
The roaring twenties: After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd...