The Lady and the Mob (1939)

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Country: USA
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Release: 1939-04-03
Director: Benjamin Stoloff
Writers: Richard Maibaum , Gertrude Purcell , George Bradshaw , Price Day
Language: English
Stars: Fay Bainter , Ida Lupino , Lee Bowman , Henry Armetta , Warren Hymer , Harold Huber , Forbes Murray , Joe Sawyer , Tom Dugan , Joe Caits
Runtime: 66 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Uma Dama Entre Gangsters (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , The Lady and the Mob , The Lady and the Mob (United Kingdom) , Hennes nåd gangsterskräcken! (Sweden) , Che succede a San Francisco? (Italy) , The Lady and the Mob (United States of America) , Gangsterler ve Şürekâsı (Turkey)
Plot: Society-woman Hattie Leonard organizes her own band of 'gang-busters' when she discovers a garment she sent to the dry-cleaners had been taxed twenty-five-cents to pay for gang 'protection.' She sends to New York City for a reformed gangster she had befriended, Frankie O'Fallon, and he hires the manpower needed from the usual Columbia hoods. Her gang hi-jacks the racketeers, recovers the merchant's money and returns it to them. Lila Thorne, engaged to Hattie' son, Fred, throws in with her future mother-in-law when she sees the old lady is fighting for the American principle of freedom of choice...and action. Lila frames the gang-leader, George Watson, and Hattie's big-city vigilantes kidnap him, and extract the information that the town-mayor, Johnny "J.J." Jones, is the brains behind the protection-gang and is getting the big cut of the money. But Hattie still has to rob a bank before she can secure the evidence needed to convict the mayor. All in a day's work for a crusading society dame.
IMDB:tt0031547