The Purple Gang

Policeman Barry Sullivan fights Detroit's Purple Gang led by Robert Blake in the 1920s and 1930s in this Allied Artists programmer directed by Frank MacDonald. Quite obviously shot on studio lots and underdecorated sets, with a lot of stock footage edited into montages, it also features a high-speed narrative voice-over narrative by Sullivan.

The Purple Gang was a real Detroit mob, perhaps best remembered for being predominantly Jewish. The movie makes no indication of this.

Suzanne Ridgeway has a small part in this movie. She had entered the movies in 1937. Ultimately, she appeared in 233 feature films, 12 shorts and 13 television appearances. In that time, she was received on-screen credit four times, including the infamous FROM HELL IT CAME. This was her last movie appearance. She died in 1996, 78 years old, another of the forgotten horde of players whose presence helped make two Oscar winners and a multitude of other movies.