Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
John Ericson | ... | Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd | |
Barry Newman | ... | Al Riccardo | |
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Roy Fant | ... | Jed Watkins |
Joan Harvey | ... | Lil Courtney | |
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Carl York | ... | Curly Winwell |
Jason Evers | ... | Sheriff Blackie Faulkner (as Herb Evers) | |
Effie Afton | ... | Ma Parks | |
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Shirley Smith | ... | Ann Courtney |
Casey Peyson | ... | Gail Crouder | |
Peter Falk | ... | Shorty Walters | |
Al Lewis | ... | Machine Gun Manny | |
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Leo Bloom | ... | Ed Courtney |
Norman Burton | ... | Bill Courtney | |
Philip Kenneally | ... | Baker | |
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Charles Braswell | ... | Special Investigator Neil Trane |
Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that past. With nowhere to go but back home in Oklahoma he gets news that his father's been murdered and the local sheriff lets the killer off with a self-defense plea. Bent on revenge, Floyd does what he must which leads him down a dark road littered with robbing banks and loose women. Floyd's final days are anything BUT pretty! Written by jimthemoviefreak@gmail.com
Chronological with some name changing & liberties to some minor facts, PBF is not bad. If you know nothing of PBF outside his name as I, it is worth a glimpse & held me. Did capture era with fashion, costumes, & props. Gave me a realization of the desperate times, caliber of female companions, glamour & glamourlessness, & extreme ups & downs of a gangster of his time.