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Director:
Herbert J. Leder
Writer:
Herbert J. Leder (writer)
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Release Date:
January 1960 (USA) more
Genre:
Biography | Crime | Drama more
Tagline:
THE KISS OF DEATH - WHERE THE UNDERWORLD BECOME THE JUDGES AND A HOODLUM WINDS UP DEAD! (original print ad - all caps)
Plot:
Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that past... more | add synopsis
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pretty good for the time more (6 total)

Cast

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John Ericson ... Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
Barry Newman ... Al Riccardo
Roy Fant ... Jed Watkins
Joan Harvey ... Lil Courtney
Carl York ... Curly Winwell
Jason Evers ... Sheriff Blackie Faulkner (as Herb Evers)
Effie Afton ... Ma Parks
Shirley Smith ... Ann Courtney

Casey Peyson ... Gail Crouder

Peter Falk ... Shorty Walters
Al Lewis ... Machine Gun Manny
Leo Bloom ... Ed Courtney
Norman Burton ... Bill Courtney
Philip Kenneally ... Baker
Charles Braswell ... Special Investigator Neil Trane
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Runtime:
96 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Le-Sac Productions more

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Trivia:
Film debut of Barry Newman) more
Goofs:
Factual errors: The film shows Pretty Boy Floyd having a career as a boxer. Even fighting under his nickname. This is completely false. Floyd was never a professional fighter, nor would he fight with the nickname he received from a robbery - a name that he despised. more
Soundtrack:
Black Emanuelle more

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pretty good for the time, 10 May 2006
7/10
Author: jwc53531 from United States

considering the budget and casting this is a good effort - I just LOVE the completely out-of-place soundtrack (the jazz score really is quite good in its own right) - you would think they would on occasion use some country music - I know it bears little semblance to the historical Floyd story but kudos for the great cast - T-Bag from Prison Break is definitely channeling Pretty Boy's brother, Curly and Al Lewis is awesome - Ericsson is actually quite good too and doesn't really resort to over-the-top caricatures as one might think - Peter Falk has a nice role too pretty much like his role as Abe Relas in Murder Inc - as Sabre pointed out above, the machine guns look like French MAT49s (not yet available in the 1930s but used by the post-war French army in Indochina and Algeria) - a similar weapon (although with a folding metal stock) was used in The Laughing Policeman to great effect - the cops seem to use Thompsons like you would expect - I think this fits in rather nicely with all the second-tier crime flicks that came out in the last 50s and early 60s

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