by Andrea LeVasseur
synopsis
Actor Walter Matthau directed his first and only feature film with the black-and-white crime drama Gangster Story. In an unusual noncomedic role, Matthau plays Jack Martin, a local gangster who wants to run his own crime syndicate in the neighborhood run by Earl Dawson (Bruce McFarlan). They eventually team up and plan a heist. Carol Grace plays the reform-minded girlfriend.
characteristics
- Rise To Power
- Struggle
- Territory
- Trapped
- Yakuza
- Violence
- Reform [improve]
- Reformation
- Criminal
- Bad-luck
- Gang
- Girlfriend
- Mob
- Mafia
- Alliance
