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1) The racket
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"Nick Scanlon is an old-fashioned kind of gangster. If someone crosses you, settle it with a fist or a bullet. Tom McQuigg is an old-fashioned kind of cop. Grab the bad guy, not the bribe. But they're both living in a corrupt new world of smooth operators on both sides of the law, efficient green-eyeshade types who run a crime ring like a corporation. They won't mind if Scanlon and McQuigg square off... if they bring each other down"--Container.
3) Al Capone
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An account of the life of Al Capone, tracing his rise to the top of Chicago's underworld.
4) Penthouse
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Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumbs. No more. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out. And there's something else that won't stay hush-hush: Gertie and Jackson are falling in love.
5) Party girl
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A mob lawyer has a professional crisis of conscience after he begins a romantic relationship with a naive showgirl.
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A melodrama where Crawford plays a hardened mobster who's about to go blind. On top of this she is being watched by the police and is burdened by an overly jealous boyfriend. She goes to Indianapolis to consult an expert eye surgeon to repair her eyes and ends up falling hopelessly in love with him. Will she be able to forget her seedy past and make a fresh start?
7) The Yakuza
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Retired detective Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum) is called upon by an old friend, George Tanner (Brian Keith). Tanner has been doing business with a yakuza gangster, Tono (Eiji Okada), who has taken Tanner's daughter and her boyfriend hostage to apply pressure in a business deal involving the sale of guns. Tanner hopes that Kilmer can locate and rescue the girl using his Japanese connections.
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Blonde crazy: A bellhop and chambermaid are out to enjoy each other, while conning criminals.
Strangers may kiss: A desperate lady is on a love trek across the continent.
Hi, Nellie: A newspaperman gets demoted to being a lovelorn-column writer, and finds comfort in a glass.
Dark hazard: A gambling addict is torn between a good girl and a glamour girl who bets it all on one special pooch.
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African-American private investigator Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenaged daughter; Shaft comes to the aid of his girlfriend after her brother is murdered by the mob; Shaft goes to Africa to track down a slave-trading operation and becomes entangled in an international scheme of corruption and murder.
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"Factory worker Thomas Hacklin [who] has moved on with his life after divorce. He plays baseball on weekends. Dates a little. And never misses a scheduled visit with his two young children. But one day Hacklin shows up for a visit and finds his children are gone. They, Hacklin's ex and the mob informant she married have been whisked into the secrecy of the witness relocation program. A compelling true-life tale of a father determined to find and reclaim...
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