Gangs of Chicago (1940)
Directed by Arthur Lubin
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
In this crime drama, a young man becomes a criminal lawyer after witnessing the police shooting of his father, a thief. Most of his clients are criminals and he soon finds himself involved with a mob boss. Together they build a new crime syndicate. Unfortunately, the attorney's partner is secretly an FBI spy. When the agent is shot, his partner, the lawyer saves his life. He then reconsiders his life and rats on his gangster client to the cops.
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bad-guy-turns-good, change-of-heart, client, college, criminal, death, father, FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), gangster, help, informer, lawyer, mob-boss, partner, police, robbery, shoot-out, teenagers, undercover, underworld, weapons, witness, wound [injury]
