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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]
"Seventy-Six Trombones" is a show tune and the signature song from the 1957 musical The Music Man, by Meredith Willson, a film of the same name in 1962 and a made-for-TV movie in 2003. The piece is commonly played by marching bands, military bands, and orchestras. [1] [2]
The Black Hand Gang [2] [3] Comedy: Monty Banks: Wee Georgie Wood, Viola Compton, Alfred Wood Children of Chance [3] Comedy crime: Alexander Esway: Elissa Landi, Mabel Poulton, John Stuart and John Longden: The Chinese Bungalow [3] Drama: Arthur Barnes, J.B. Williams: Matheson Lang, Jill Esmond, Anna Neagle: Choral Cameos [24] Short film ...
The Music Man is a 1962 American musical film directed and produced by Morton DaCosta, based on Meredith Willson's 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which DaCosta also directed. Robert Preston reprises the title role from the stage version, starring alongside Shirley Jones , Buddy Hackett , Hermione Gingold , Ronny Howard , and Paul Ford .
The Black Hand", written by novelist/screenwriter James Dalessandro. In My Ears Are Bent, Joseph Mitchell's collection of his feature articles from the 1930s, Petrosino appears as "Louis Sittenberg, the famous New York detective who was killed on a trip to Italy to bring back a Black Hand agent." Whether Mitchell's informant was confused or ...
Sky Movies wrote, "Formby's on form – especially singing 'Keep Your Seats, Please' and 'When I'm Cleaning Windows' – Florence Desmond's a much stronger leading lady than George usually had, and Alastair Sim made one of his first major impacts in films as the unscrupulous lawyer who also has his beady eye on the hidden fortune".
Carollo was born on June 17, 1896, in Terrasini, Sicily, and immigrated to the United States in 1903 to join his parents in the French Quarter of New Orleans.By 1918, Carollo was a high-ranking member of the New Orleans Black Hand gang.
Willie "Two-Knife" Altieri, also called Willie "Two Gun" Altieri, was an American gangster who served as the chief enforcer for Frankie Yale's Italian-American "Black-Hand" gang, one of the most powerful criminal organizations in 1920s New York City. He got his nickname after his preferred method of dispatching a victim.