The Gangster (1947)
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Having struck gold with the previous season's Dillinger, the King Brothers returned to Monogram as producers of The Gangster. Adapted by Daniel Fuchs from his own novel Low Company, the film stars Barry Sullivan as flint-faced racketeer Shubunka. Shown to be a product of the slums, Shubunka spends his adulthood in pursuit of power and riches, with no time for friendship or romance. Wounded in a gangland shootout, Shubunka ruminates on his past, present and (unlikely) future, wondering if it's all been worth it. Promoted as a "psychological" drama, The Gangster has plenty of gunplay and bloodshed to satiate action fans, and a surfeit of sex appeal in the form of gangster's moll Nancy (played by Monogram's resident skating star Belita). Prominent in the supporting cast is the ineluctable Sheldon Leonard as Shubunka's chief rival, delivering a subtler variation on his patented tough-guy screen persona. The Gangster was directed by Oscar-winning art director Gordon Wiles, later a mainstay of such TV series as Land of the Lost and Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Barry Sullivan - Shubunka
- Joan Lorring - Dorothy
- John Ireland - Karty
- Fifi D'Orsay - Mrs. Ostroleng
- Leif Erickson - Beaumont
- John Kellogg - Sterling
- Murray Alper - Eddie
- Phil Arnold - Man
- Elisha Cook, Jr. - Oval
- Marguerita Padula - Woman
- Edwin Maxwell - Politician
- Ted Hecht - Swain
- Billy Gray - Little Boy
- Jay Eaton - Man
- Jane Weeks - Girl in Corridor
- Maxine Semon - Hotel Maid
- Parker Gee - Man in Corridor
- Sammy Shack - Man
- Jean Calhoun - Woman
- Tommy Reilly - Piano Player
- Peter Whitney - Brother-in-law
- Larry Steers - Headwaiter
- Jack Reynolds - Thug
- Jeff Corey - Brother-in-law
- Mikel Conrad
- Marie Blake - House Mistress
- Dolores Castle - Cigarette Girl
- Belita - Nancy Starr
- Akim Tamiroff - Nick Jammey
- Sheldon Leonard - Cornell
- Virginia Christine - Mrs. Karty
- Charles McGraw - Dugas
- Ruth Allen - Girl Singer
- Andy Andrews - Man
- Gene Collins - Boy
- Rex Downing - Boy with Note
- Sid Melton - Stage Manager
- Bill Kennedy - Thug
- Don Haggerty - Stranger
- Greta Granstedt - Woman
- Henry Morgan - Shorty
- Anita Turner - Essie
- Norma Jean Nilsson - Little Girl
- Michael Gaddis
- Michael Lally - Man
- Larry Thompson - Thug
- Shelley Winters - Hazel
- Michael Vallon - Man on Boardwalk
- Dewey Robinson - Pool Player
- Alex Pope
- Clancy Cooper - Brother-in-Law
- Griff Barnett - Dorothy's Father
- Lennie Bremen - Man
- Director(s):
- Gordon Wiles
- Writer(s):
- Daniel Fuchs
- Producer(s):
- Maurice King, Frank King
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