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Old School gangsters
Humphrey Bogart in
Key Largo -mobster trying to sneak back in the country takes over hotel during hurricane
The Petrified Forest - mobsters take over desert truck stop
High Sierra - just out of prison Bogart robs swanky resort hotel
William Powell & Clark Gable in
Manhattan Melodrama - 2 childhood friends; one become D.A. the other a gangster who he sends to death row
Movie is also famous as Bank Robber John Dillinger was shot down minutes after watching the movie by the FBI
James Cagney
White Heat - best line "Look at me Mom I'm on top of the world"
It was either Manhattan Melodrama or a Cagney movie were the gangster says to the priest just before execution he's going out tall and proud.The priest tells him he can't as young boys will try and be like him. So he goes that last walk crying so the newspapers will report it.
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