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Gangs of New York (1938 film)

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Gangs of New York

Directed by	James Cruze
Written by	Herbert Asbury (book) Samuel Fuller (screenplay) Samuel Fuller (story) Charles F. Royal (writer) Wellyn Totman (writer) Jack Townley (writer) Nathanael West^{[citation needed]} (uncredited)
Produced by	Armand Schaefer (producer)
Starring	See below
Cinematography	Ernest Miller
Edited by	William Morgan
Music by	Alberto Colombo
Distributed by	Republic Pictures
Release date	May 23, 1938 (1938-05-23)
Running time	67 minutes 53 minutes (edited American TV version)
Country	United States
Language	English

Gangs of New York is a 1938 American film directed by James Cruze and written by Samuel Fuller.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Plot[edit]

Crime lord Rocky Thorpe is impersonated by police officer John Franklin in order to infiltrate his organization and bring an end to it once and for all.^[4]

Cast[edit]

Charles Bickford as Rocky Thorpe/John Franklin
Ann Dvorak as Connie Benson
Alan Baxter as 'Dapper' Mallare
Wynne Gibson as Orchid
Harold Huber as Panatella
Willard Robertson as Inspector Sullivan
Maxie Rosenbloom as Tombstone
Charles Trowbridge as District Attorney Lucas
John Wray as Maddock
Jonathan Hale as Warden
Fred Kohler as Kruger
Howard Phillips as Al Benson
Robert Gleckler as Nolan
Elliott Sullivan as Hopkins
Maurice Cass as Phillips

References[edit]

^ LLC, New York Media (August 12, 1991). "New York Magazine". New York Media, LLC – via Google Books.

^ Kerbel, Sorrel (November 23, 2004). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. Routledge. ISBN 9781135456078 – via Google Books.

^ Langman, Larry; Finn, Daniel (April 11, 1995). A Guide to American Crime Films of the Thirties. Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313295324 – via Google Books.

^ Parish, James Robert; Pitts, Michael R. (April 11, 1987). The Great Gangster Pictures II. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810819610 – via Google Books.

External links[edit]

Gangs of New YorkatIMDb
Gangs of New York at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Gangs of New York is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

Films directed by James Cruze

1910s

From Wash to Washington (1914)
Too Many Millions (1918)
The Dub (1919)
Alias Mike Moran (1919)
The Roaring Road (1919)
You're Fired (1919)
The Love Burglar (1919)
The Valley of the Giants (1919)
The Lottery Man (1919)
Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (1919)
An Adventure in Hearts (1919)

1920s

Terror Island (1920)
Mrs. Temple's Telegram (1920)
The Sins of St. Anthony (1920)
What Happened to Jones (1920)
Food for Scandal (1920)
A Full House (1920)
Always Audacious (1920)
The Charm School (1921)
The Dollar-a-Year Man (1921)
Gasoline Gus (1921)
Crazy to Marry (1921)
One Glorious Day (1922)
Is Matrimony a Failure? (1922)
The Fast Freight (1922)
The Dictator (1922)
The Old Homestead (1922)
Thirty Days (1922)
The Covered Wagon (1923)
Hollywood (1923)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1923)
To the Ladies (1923)
Leap Year (1924) filmed 1921
The Fighting Coward (1924)
The Enemy Sex (1924)
Merton of the Movies (1924)
The City That Never Sleeps (1924)
The Garden of Weeds (1924)
The Goose Hangs High (1925)
Waking Up the Town (1925)
Welcome Home (1925)
Beggar on Horseback (1925)
Marry Me (1925)
The Pony Express (1925)
Mannequin (1926)
Old Ironsides (1926)
The Waiter from the Ritz (1926) never completed or released
We're All Gamblers (1927)
The City Gone Wild (1927)
On to Reno (1928)
The Mating Call (1928)
The Red Mark (1928)
Excess Baggage (1928)
The Duke Steps Out (1929)
A Man's Man (1929)
The Great Gabbo (1929)

1930s

Once a Gentleman (1930)
She Got What She Wanted (1930)
Salvation Nell (1931)
Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932)
If I Had a Million (segment "Death Cell", 1932)
Racetrack (1933)
Sailor Be Good (1933)
I Cover the Waterfront (1933)
Mr. Skitch (1933)
David Harum (1934)
Their Big Moment (1934)
Helldorado (1934)
Two-Fisted (1935)
Sutter's Gold (1936)
The Wrong Road (1937)
Prison Nurse (1938)
Gangs of New York (1938)
Come On, Leathernecks! (1938)

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