Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Robert Florey

Writers:

Jerome Cady (screenplay)
Crane Wilbur (screenplay)

Release Date:

July 1944 (USA)

Genre:

Biography | Crime | Drama

Plot Keywords:

Irish | Chicago Illinois | Gangster | Irish American | Character Name In Title

Cast

Preston Foster	...	Roger Touhy
Victor McLaglen	...	Herman 'Owl' Banghart
Lois Andrews	...	Daisy, Touhy's secretary
Kent Taylor	...	Police Capt. Steve Warren
Anthony Quinn	...	George Carroll
William Post Jr.	...	Joseph P. Sutton
Harry Morgan	...	Thomas J. 'Smoke' Reardon (as Henry Morgan)
Matt Briggs	...	Cameron
Moroni Olsen	...	Riley
Reed Hadley	...	FBI Agent Boyden
Trudy Marshall	...	Gloria, Sutton's escort
John Archer	...	FBI Agent Kerrigan
Frank Jenks	...	Bernard 'Troubles' O'Connor
George E. Stone	...	'Ice Box' Hamilton
Charles Lang	...	FBI Agent

Also Known As:

Roger Touhy
The Last Gangster (UK)

Runtime:

65 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Sweden:(Banned)

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

The prison scenes were filmed at Stateville Prison in Joliet, Illinois, where the real Roger Touhy was incarcerated. The film was previewed at Stateville on July 12, 1943 with the Governor of Illinois (Dwight H. Green), and over 1,000 police officers and State's Attorneys from Chicago other Illinois communities in attendance. Touhy, who was suing 20th Century Fox (unsuccessfully it turned out) to prevent the films release, was not invited to the show, nor were any other prisoners, which was held in the prison chapel.