The Purple Gang (1959)

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Country: USA
Genres: Crime, Drama
Release: 1960-01-05
Director: Frank McDonald
Writers: Jack DeWitt
Language: English
Stars: Barry Sullivan , Robert Blake , Elaine Edwards , Marc Cavell , Jody Lawrance , Suzanne Ridgway , Joe Turkel , Victor Creatore , Paul Dubov , Ray Boyle
Runtime: 85 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: I kokkini symmoria (Greece) , The Purple Gang (United Kingdom) , Die Ratten von Detroit , Banda purpurie (Romania) , 全員射殺 (Japan) , The Purple Gang (Australia) , A Quadrilha Escarlate (Brazil) , The Purple Gang (New Zealand) , Пурпурная Банда , The Purple Gang , Η κόκκινη συμμορία (Greece) , La pandilla purpura (Argentina) , The Purple Gang (Canada) , The Purple Gang (Ireland) , Guerra di gangster (Italy) , Die Ratten von Detroit (Austria) , Purpurnaya Banda , The Purple Gang (United States of America)
Plot: A teen-age rat pack of the Detroit slums, the Purple Gang, headed by psychotic William Joseph "Honeyboy" Willard, teams with adult hijackers during prohibition and in three years controls the city's underworld. Detective Bill Harley is given a special assignment to break the gang. To intimidate Harley, Honeyboy and his chief henchman, Hank Smith, terrorize his pregnant wife, Gladys, who loses her baby and dies. The gang moves in on the cleaning and dyeing industry, which calls in the Mafia for protection. Hank tries to tip off Harley as to where the Mafia hoods are holed up but Honeyboy, mistaking his intentions, has Killer Burke seal him alive in a coffin and drop him in the Detroit river. Honeyboy locates the Mafia headquarters in an apartment building and goes there with two of his men. They break in and machine-gun the three Mafia leaders, Licovetti, Ricco and Castiglione.
IMDB:tt0054218