Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
LAST OF THE GANGSTERS!
65 min
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
- Release date
- June 3, 1944
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Hugo Friedhofer
Cast
- Preston Foster as Roger Touhy
- Victor McLaglen as Herman 'Owl' Banghart
- Lois Andrews as Daisy
- Kent Taylor as Police Capt. Steven Warren
- Anthony Quinn as George Carroll
- William Post Jr. as Joseph P. Sutton
- Harry Morgan as Thomas J. 'Smoke' Reardon
- Matt Briggs as Horace Cameron
- Moroni Olsen as Riley
- Reed Hadley as FBI Agent Boyden
Crew
- Robert Florey · Director
- Jerome Cady · Writer
- Crane Wilbur · Writer
- Lee S. Marcus · Producer
- Hugo Friedhofer · Composer
- Glen MacWilliams · Cinematographer
- Harry Reynolds · Editor