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Gangster movies are loaded with inherently alluring ... Simultaneously viewing the gangster film through the lens of urban Black American youth and launching a distinct genre of its own, John ...

black-and-white adaptation of Jerome Odlum’s gangster novel starred big-screen heavyweights James Cagney as investigative reporter Frank Ross and George Raft as gangster “Hood” Stacey.