The Lawless Years, Vol. 4 On DVD
Actor: James Gregory, Warren Oates, James Griffith, Tommy Cook, Arthur Lovejoy
Director: Allen H. Miner, James Neilson, Edward Dein
Genre: Television
Year: N/A
Studio: Alpha Video
Length: 103
Released: March 25, 2014
Rating: Not Rated
Format: DVD (NTSC/Region 1)
Misc: NTSC, Black & White
Language: English
Subtitles : N/A
DESCRIPTION:
Tom Mix (1880-1940), "the King of the Cowboys," was unquestionably the premier Western superstar of Hollywood's silent era, essentially creating the foundation for subsequent screen cowboys. Mix, who made almost 300 films, was renowned for doing most of the stunts in his films and was among Tinseltown's highest-paid actors. After his death in an auto accident, Mix was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
BONUS SHORTS: THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY: This DVD also includes the rare 1904 remake of the legendary 1903 Edwin S. Porter Western short The Great Train Robbery. Such remakes were common in the film industry before copyright laws were enforced. German-born director Siegmund Lubin specialized in such counterfeits, also releasing a remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon (1914).
YOUNG OLDFIELD: This free-wheeling 1924 slapstick short comedy produced by Hal Roach, and directed by future three-time Oscar winner Leo McCarey, stars
Return to the violent years of the Prohibition Era in these true stories of New York's notorious gangland bootleggers, bookmakers, thugs and killers -- straight from the man who arrested them all. Based on the memoirs of Detective Barney Ruditsky, commanding officer of the city's famed Gangster Squad, "The Lawless Years" focuses on organized crime and high-profile gangsters, as did "The Untouchables," which debuted the very same year.ARTIE MOON: A small time hit-man who has made millions after taking over a distillery, plans to seize sole control of Manhattan's mob.
JONATHAN WILLS: Detective Ruditsky is determined to bring down a crooked lawyer who has grown wealthy and powerful defending mobsters.
MILES MILLER: A jewelry robbery leaves a police officer shot dead, and Detective Ruditsky's investigation leads to a brilliant and cultured mob lawyer.
VICTOR GORDIDO: Ruditsky's probe of a brutal double slaying is thwarted when an eyewitness is too terrified of mob retaliation to testify.
famed funnyman Charley Chase.
Actor: James Gregory, Warren Oates, James Griffith, Tommy Cook, Arthur Lovejoy
Director: Allen H. Miner, James Neilson, Edward Dein
Genre: Television
Year: N/A
Studio: Alpha Video
Length: 103
Released: March 25, 2014
Rating: Not Rated
Format: DVD (NTSC/Region 1)
Misc: NTSC, Black & White
Language: English
Subtitles : N/A
DESCRIPTION:
Tom Mix (1880-1940), "the King of the Cowboys," was unquestionably the premier Western superstar of Hollywood's silent era, essentially creating the foundation for subsequent screen cowboys. Mix, who made almost 300 films, was renowned for doing most of the stunts in his films and was among Tinseltown's highest-paid actors. After his death in an auto accident, Mix was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
BONUS SHORTS: THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY: This DVD also includes the rare 1904 remake of the legendary 1903 Edwin S. Porter Western short The Great Train Robbery. Such remakes were common in the film industry before copyright laws were enforced. German-born director Siegmund Lubin specialized in such counterfeits, also releasing a remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon (1914).
YOUNG OLDFIELD: This free-wheeling 1924 slapstick short comedy produced by Hal Roach, and directed by future three-time Oscar winner Leo McCarey, stars
Return to the violent years of the Prohibition Era in these true stories of New York's notorious gangland bootleggers, bookmakers, thugs and killers -- straight from the man who arrested them all. Based on the memoirs of Detective Barney Ruditsky, commanding officer of the city's famed Gangster Squad, "The Lawless Years" focuses on organized crime and high-profile gangsters, as did "The Untouchables," which debuted the very same year.ARTIE MOON: A small time hit-man who has made millions after taking over a distillery, plans to seize sole control of Manhattan's mob.
JONATHAN WILLS: Detective Ruditsky is determined to bring down a crooked lawyer who has grown wealthy and powerful defending mobsters.
MILES MILLER: A jewelry robbery leaves a police officer shot dead, and Detective Ruditsky's investigation leads to a brilliant and cultured mob lawyer.
VICTOR GORDIDO: Ruditsky's probe of a brutal double slaying is thwarted when an eyewitness is too terrified of mob retaliation to testify.
famed funnyman Charley Chase.
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