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Purple Gang Aka Sugar House Gang — Part 4
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around the Biograph Theater.
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year of bank robbery.
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ness knows is in prison under Harry Pier-
old stuff, But HRB." pont, the marvelously planned.
‘real criminals. i and executed robbery of batiks, |
Pp ainstakingly “4 * 49. |the meticulous casing of: the;
“treated as - his: & |banks, the rather casual kill-:
itorical charac-. r Jing of cops and a sheriff all:
jters are brand _jheld one spellbound, dramati-|
‘new and rath- _ jeally speaking. But also it,
‘er disturbing € 4 (bothered me a little. A good’
Frotagonisls — Crosby. hort course in bank robbery,;
-1 hesitate to rosby kept thinking. though I sup-
+ efll them heroes—Ail over the ose it could also be called a
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_ THE DETAILED and fright-
ftutly accurate re-enactment of
famous crimes is a fairly new
and fertile field of dramatic
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iM he movie mob is way ahead’ But you can't escape the, The Washington Poat ona Ce
‘of TV in this regard withMeeling that this is the giori-, Times Herald
‘guch movies as “Al Capone,"Mication of gangsterism, even The Washington Dally News __
i“The Purple Gang,” “The Rise hough this is a very honest: ee .
iand Fall of Legs Diamond,” Mocumentary. The bad guys: The Evening Star
“Jack the Pipper” he: all of|ket it in the end—but for an New York Herald Tribune
‘which are doing rather alarm-! hour they have led a pretty, .
“tngly well at the box office,/glorious and adventurous life. New York Journal-American —
“especially with the teen crowd. With all the movies around, I; New York Mirror
:;On felevision we have hadfean’t help feeling that hero: New York Dally News
(Playhouse 90's "Seven Against¥worship of hoodlums is beingi New York Poat
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jentine’s Day’s massacre, andor some not very scrupulous| The New York Times
most recently “John Dillingerffilm makérs and I hate to see) The Worker
‘—A Year to Kill’ which CBSITV get mixed up in this port, The N 4
"put on as a special the other}of thing, * New Leader
night. : This particular show was to! The Wall Street Joumal
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