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The Black Hand Gang is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Wee Georgie Wood, Viola Compton and Alfred Wood. [1] It was made by British International Pictures and based on a play by Black Hand George by Bert Lee and R.P. Weston. Shot at Elstree Studios as a quota quickie, it was released as a second feature. [2]
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The gang appeared first in their own stage show Crazy Week at the London Palladium, which later became their adopted home. In 1938 they appeared at the Palladium in the hit revue These Foolish Things alongside the Sherman Fisher Girls. After being signed by Gainsborough Pictures, they then made several films under Ted Black. [1]
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Little Caesar (1931). The years 1931 and 1932 saw the genre produce three enduring classics: Warner Bros.' Little Caesar and The Public Enemy, which made screen icons out of Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney, respectively, and Howard Hawks' Scarface starring Paul Muni, which offered a dark psychological analysis of a fictionalized Al Capone [4] and launched the film career of George Raft.
In the early twentieth century, for instance, Red Hook’s docks were controlled by an Irish gang, the White Hand. “At first they robbed everyone blind, but there was little violence,” writes ...