The Public Enemy  - Starring James Cagney and Edward Burns. Released May 15, 1931 This gangster pic was released four months after ...

The old adage, art reflects life , was never more true than with the rise of the gangster film in the 1930s.   Thanks to years of Proh...

Thirty-eight year old Bill Kirkillis was a former Chicago hoodlum who had moved to Massillon, Ohio, and had become known as the "Ki...

Harry Hyter was a gangland sort dating back to at least the early 1920s when he was involved with a bootleg gang operating out of Gary,...

A little after midnight on this date back in 1931, Luigi Piazza pulled into a gas station near Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Greensburg ...

Carmelo Fresina was a St. Louis gang leader involved in bootlegging and extortion. He was looking at some bootlegging trials and told h...