- Title: V-1136
- Summary: GANG WAR: TWO MOBS FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF THE JUKEBOX RACKET. ALL-BLACK CAST GANGSTER FILM. WITH RALPH COOPER, GLADYS SNYDER, REGGIE FENDERSON, LAWRENCE GRINER, MONTE HAWLEY, JESSE BROOKS, JOHNNY THOMAS, MACEO BRUCE SCHEFFIELD, CHARLES HAWKINS, ROBERT JONSON, HENRY ROBERTS, HAROLD GARRISON, MARIE BRYANT, WILLIE COVAN, HALLEY HARDING, RAY MARTIN, ERNEST MORRISON, EDWARD THOMPSON. DIRECTED BY: LEO C.POPKIN
- Description:00:02:00 - GANGSTER MOVIE INTRO. MONTAGE OF 1940 GANGSTER SHOOT OUTS. NEWSPAPER HEADLINES READ "GANG WAR" 00:02:11 - BLACK CAR PULLS UP TO THE CURB. 00:02:12 - INTERIOR OF A SMOKY BAR. BLACK PATRONS SMOKE, DRINK AND SOCIALIZE. 00:02:28 - SMALL TABLES OF GANGSTERS SOCIALIZE, COOL GANGSTERS LOOK LAID BACK AND IN CONTROL. 00:02:32 - TWO MEN ENTER THE BAR AND OPEN UP THE 1940s JUKE BOX TO COLLECT THE COINS. THE MEN EMPTY THE COINS INTO LEATHER DOCTORS BAG AS RIVAL GANGSTERS LOOK ON QUIETLY IN THE BKGD. 00:03:18 - GROUP OF SMALL TIME GANGSTERS APPROACH THE JUKE BOX COLLECTION AGENTS AND DEMAND THAT THEY TURN OVER THE PROFITS. A MOB BOSS INTERVENES WITH THE TRANSACTION & BAR BRAWL OCCURS. MEN GET THROWN OVER TABLES AND INTO WALLS. BAR FIGHT. 00:04:49 - GANGSTERS RUN FROM A BAR BRAWL. A GANGSTER SMASHES WINDOW GLASS AND SHOOTS HANDGUN INTO STREET. ONE MOBSTER GETS SHOT IN THE BUM-BACK AS HE TRIES TO ESCAPE. 00:05:01 - POLICE OFFICERS WALKING THE STREET, BEAT RUN TOWARD THE SOUND OF GUN FIRE, CRIME SCENE. 00:05:09 - CURIOUS PEDESTRIANS SURROUND THE BAR WHERE GUN SHOTS WERE FIRED FROM. NOSEY BY STANDERS. POLICE STRUGGLE TO GET OUT FROM THE CROWD. POLICE VEHICLES WITH SIRENS WAILING PURSUE MOB GANGSTERS THROUGH STREETS AS THEY TRY TO ESCAPE A CRIME SCENE. MOBSTERS FIRE GUN SHOTS INTO BUSY STREETS AS THEY TRY TO OUTRUN POLICE. COPS IN PURSUIT OF CRIMINALS. WILD AND DANGEROUS POLICE CHASE THROUGH CROWDED URBAN STREETS. 00:06:03 - WILD POLICE CHASE. COPS PURSUE CRIMINALS THROUGH CROWDED CITY STREETS. POV THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD OF THE CRIMINALS CAR AS THEY DODGE TRAFFIC TO ESCAPE THE LAW. SIRENS WAIL. 00:06:36 - WILD POLICE CHASE. A COP CAR IN PURSUIT OF ESCAPED CRIMINALS GETS BLOCKED BEHIND BUSY CITY TRAFFIC. COP CAR COMES TO A HALT IN A TRAFFIC JAM. 00:06:46 - MOB BOSS GETS THE NEWS THAT ONE OF HIS "BOYS" HAS BEEN KNOCKED OFF, KILLED. 00:07:11 - SLICK-LOOKING GANGSTER, MOBSTER (RALPH COOPER) WALKS COOLY INTO A ROOM FLANKED BY GANGSTERS ON EITHER SIDE. THE MEN WEAR 1940s FASHIONED FEDORAS. 00:07:23 - YOUNG GANGSTER VERBALLY THREATENS TO OVERTHROW MOB BOSS. GANGSTERS ARGUE ABOUT CONTROL OF HARLEM RACKETS. GANG LAND RIVAL MOBSTERS FIGHT OVER CONTROL. 00:09:35 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINES ROLL OFF 1940s PRINTING PRESS. MURDER HEADLINE READS "UNDERWORLD BOSS GANGLAND VICTIM" ETC. IMAGES OF GANGSTER SHOOTOUTS PLAY UNDER NEWSPAPER HEADLINES. 00:10:24 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINES ROLL OFF 1940s PRINTING PRESS. COURT HEARING HEADLINES TALK ABOUT INDICTMENTS IN CRIMINAL COURT. IMAGES OF COURT PRESS AGENTS SCURRYING AROUND AND THE COURT TRIAL DEFENDENT WAITING FOR A VERDICTIN THE COURTROOM, PLAY UNDER NEWSPAPER HEADLINES. 00:11:08 - COURT JUDGE ADDRESSES THE COURTROOM IN TRIAL. JUDGE CALLS FOR ORDER IN THE COURT. REQUESTS THAT THE JURY READ VERDICT. 00:11:29 - TRIAL JURY COURT FOREMAN STANDS TO ADDRESS COURT TO READ VERDICT. JUDGE, SITTING HIGH OVER THE COURT, ASKS THE DEFENDANT TO RISE. 00:11:43 - JURY FOREMAN READS A NOT GUILTY VERDICT IN OPEN COURT. A MUMBLE RISES THROUGH THE COURT ROOM. 00:11:51 - COURT PRESS AGENTS RUSH OUT OF THE COURTROOM TO GET THEIR STORIES TO THE NEWSPAPER. 00:12:06 - YOUNG BLACK COUPLE TALK ABOUT CELEBRATING AFTER "NOT GUILTY" COURTROOM VERDICT. NAIVE GIRLFRIEND INSISTS ON HER BOYFROENDS INNOCENCE. 00:12:47 - THREE SHARP LOOKING, WELL DRESSED BLACK GANGSTERS LOUNGE AND SMOKE CIGARETTES IN A POSH APARTMENT AS THEY TALK BUSINESS. RIVAL MOBSTERS TALK BUSINESS. 00:14:08 - 1940s FOGGY, DESERTED CITY STREET. LONE BLACK CAR PULLS UP TO THE CURB. 00:14:14 - POV SOMEONE LOOKING DOWN AT A SUSPICIOUS BLACK CAR PARKED ON A STREET CURB. 00:14:47 - 1940s BUSY HARLEM CITY STREET. CARS AND PEDESTRIANS COMMUTE. 00:14:48 - LARGE BLACK 1940s CAR PARKED AT A STREET CURB IN DAYLIGHT. MAN SITS IN THE BACK SEAT BEHIND HIS DRIVER, CHAUFFEUR. 00:15:07 - TWO BLACK GANGSTER APPROACH RIVAL MOBSTERS AS THEY ATTEMPT TO GET INTO THEIR CAR TO DRIVE AWAY. THE TWO GANGSTERS ARE HUSTLED INTO A CAR AND DRIVEN OFF. KIDNAPPING. INTIMIDATION TECHNIQUES. 00:15:28 - POV THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD FROM INSIDE A CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN VEHICLE AS IT TRAVELS IN AND OUT OF BUSY TRAFFIC. PROFILE OF THE CHAUFFEURS FACE CAN BE SEEN IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR. 00:15:37 - BUSY CITY STREET TRAFFIC. LARGE BLACK 1940s HEARSE -LIKE CAR WAITS TO MAKE A LEFT TURN INTO TRAFFIC. 00:15:43 - POV THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD FROM INSIDE A CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN VEHICLE AS IT TRAVELS IN AND OUT OF BUSY TRAFFIC. PROFILE OF THE CHAUFFEURS FACE CAN BE SEEN IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR. 00:16:10 - ANGRY MOBSTERS ASSAULT THE CONCIERGE DOORMAN WHEN ASKED TO SEE IDENTIFICATION. THREE GANGSTERS PICK THE MAN UP BY HIS JACKET AND THROW HIM THREW A GLASS DOOR IN THE OFFICE. THE MAN IS THROWN HEAD FIRST THROUGH A GLASS DOOR. THE GANGSTERS KICK GLASS SHARDS FROM THE BROKEN DOOR AND WALK THROUGH IT. INTIMIDATION TECHNIQUES. 00:17:15 - SLICK HARLEM GANGSTER CALLS FLORIST AND ORDERS FUNERAL WREATHS. 00:17:44 - RIVAL MOBSTERS TALK BUSINESS. GANGSTERS ARGUE ABOUT GANGLAND TERRITORY. BOB "KILLER" MEADE QUOTES ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN A GANGSTER SPEECH OF INTIMIDATION: "YOU CAN FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME" 00:19:02 - DRIVE-BY OF HARLEM STREET SHOPPING DISTRICT, BARBER SHOPS AND BEAUTY PARLORS. MEN LOITER ON STREET CORNERS. 00:19:09 - YOUNG BEAUTIFUL COUPLE ENJOY DRINK TOGETHER. MAN COURTS THE WOMAN, PROMISES THE WOMAN LOVE AND MONEY. 00:19:52 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINES SPIN AND READ OF MURDER, RACKETEERING, KILLINGS IN GANG WAR-HENCHMEN EXTERMINATION CAMPAIGN. IMAGES OF GANGSTER SHOOTOUTS DISSOLVED IN AND OUT FROM THE NEWSPAPER HEADLINE IMAGES. 00:20:08 - BAR KEEP POLISHING GLASES BEHIND THE BAR. 00:20:12 - TWO GANGSTERS INTIMIDATE, ASSAULT BARTENDER AS THEY TAKE OVER OWNERSHIP OF A 1040s BAR JUKE BOX. MOB INTIMIDATION TECHNIQUES. 00:21:16 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINES SPIN & READ RACKETEERING, MURDER HARLEM UNDERWORLD WAR. 00:22:07 - CIGAR-SMOKING BUSINESSMAN-GANGSTER-MOBSTER PACES BACK AND FOURTH IN FORNT OF HIS OFFICE DESK. 00:22:19 - ROOFTOP VIEW OF A BUSY HARLEM STREET. STREETCARS TRAVEL UP AND DOWN THE STREET. PEDESTRIANS AND MOTOR VEHICLES COMMUTE. 00:22:29 - CIGAR-SMOKING BUSINESS MAN PACES BACK AND FOURTH IN FRONT OF HIS OFFICE DESK. 00:22:35 - TWO MOBSTERS HOLD A BACK ROOM TABLE OF MOBSTERS AT GUNPOINT. MOBSTERS OPEN FIRE WITH THEIR HANDGUNS. SMOKE RISES FROM THE PISTOLS. 00:23:01 - YOUNG, RICH COUPLE PLAY THE BOARDGAME SCRABBLE. YOUNG COUPLE TALK ABOUT MARRIAGE. THEY KISS ROMANTICALLY IN FRONT OF APARTMENT GRAND PIANO. TELEPHONE RINGS AND INTERRUPTS THE COUPLES ROMANTIC MOMENT. 00:24:42 - POLICE CONSTABLE STANDS IN THE WAITING AREA, RECEPTION OF AN OFFICE SPACE. THE CONSTABLE SITS TO WAIT FOR AN APPOINTMENT. 00:25:30 - YOUNG COUPLE KISS GOODBYE IN THE DOORWAY AS MAN HEADS OUT TO WORK. 00:25:46 - GANGSTER MEETS FOR A FRIENDLY CHAT WITH A POLICE OFFICER. GANGSTER OFFERS A CIGAR TO A POLICE CONSTABLE. THE COP TALKS ABOUT GANG WAR. 00:28:14 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINES SPIN & READ GUNMEN, MURDER, HIJACKING 00:28:31 - ANGRY MOBSTERS TALK BUSINESS. 00:28:57 - CONCIERGE DOORMAN SLEEPS ON THE JOB. SLEEPS WITH NEWSPAPER OVER HIS FACE. RINGING TELEPHONE WAKES HIM 00:29:25 - BRASH BUSINESS MAN-MOBSTER TALKS BUSINESS IN HIS OFFICE. GANGSTERS FLANK HIM ON EITHER SIDE. RIVAL MOBSTERS TALK SHOP. 00:31:12 - RICH COUPLE ARE CHAUFFEURED AROUND TOWN IN A BLACK LIMOUSINE. THE COUPLE ARE DRESSED FORMALLY FOR NIGHT OUT. HARLEM NIGHT CLUBS WITH NEON SIGNS ARE SUPERIMPOSED OVER THE BKGD. JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS. JAZZ BIG BAND PLAYS AS PEOPLE DANCE. PEOPLE PARTY, DANCE AND CELEBRATE THE NIGHT AWAY IN THE HARLEM NIGHT CLUBS. COUPLES TOAST CHAMPAGNE. 00:33:12 - NIGHTCLUB PARTY TABLE, STREAMERS AND CONFETTI HANG FROM THE CEILING AS COUPLES LAUGH AND DRINK AND SMOKE IN CELEBRATION. GOOD TIME. THE HEAD OF THE TABLE STANDS TO OFFER A TOAST TO HIS GUESTS. 00:33:54 - BLACK MAN TAPS TO JAZZ AS BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMEN IN BLACK SEQUINS AND TOP HATS PERFORM BESIDE HIM. 00:34:09 - ROOM OF PARTY-GOERS SITTING AT THEIR WHITE LINEN TABLES WATCHING A JAZZ TAP PERFORMER ON STAGE. HARLEM NIGHT CLUB. BLACK ENTERTAINMENT. ENTERTAINERS TEAR UP THE DANCE FLOOR. THE CROWD APPLAUDES. 00:34:59 - COORDINATED DANCE TROOP PERFORM ON STAGE AT HARLEM NIGHT CLUB. LIVE JAZZ PLAYS IN THE BKGD. ALL-WOMAN CAST OF ENTERTAINERS, FEATHERS IN THEIR HEADDRESS, ELABORATE STAGE COSTUMING. WOMEN SCREECH LIKE BIRDS. TRIBAL DANCE DRAMATIZATION. 00:35:09 - MAN LIGHT A CIGARETTE FOR HIS DATE WITH A MATCH. 00:35:15 - COORDINATED DANCE TROOP PERFORM ON STAGE AT HARLEM NIGHT CLUB. 00:36:07 - ELABORATE DANCE PERFORMERS CARRY A TRIBAL DANCE CHARACTER TO THE STAGE ON THEIR SHOULDERS. THE WOMAN DANCES AN EROTIC, EXOTIC, SEXY DANCE. NIGHT CLUB PERFORMER. 00:36:32 - DANCE PERFORMER DRESSED IN ELABORATE TRIBAL STAGE COSTUMING SITS CROSS LEGGED ON STAGE. THE PERFORMER WEARS A FEATHER HEAD DRESS AND HEAVY TRIBAL MAKE UP. NIGHT CLUB PERFORMER. 00:37:20 - NIGHT CLUB WHITE LINEN PARTY TABLE, STREAMERS AND CONFETTI HANG FROM THE CEILING AS COUPLES LAUGH AND DRINK AND SMOKE IN CELEBRATION. GOOD TIME. 00:37:36 - TRIBAL DANCE DRAMATIZATION, WOMAN DANCES AN EXOTIC DANCE. FEATHER COSTUMING. NIGHT CLUB PERFORMER. 00:38:08 - NIGHT CLUB CROWD APPLAUDES FOR PERFORMNCE UNDER DIM HOUSELIGHTS. 00:38:16 - FORMALLY DRESSED MAITRE D' SEATS A TABLE OF GANGSTERS IN A HARLEM NIGHT CLUB. 00:38:32 - NIGHT CLUB HOPS AS TABLES OF PATRONS PARTY AND PEOPLE DANCE TO BIG BAND JAZZ. 00:38:36 - NIGHT CLUB WHITE LINEN PARTY TABLE, STREAMERS AND CONFETTI HANG FROM THE CEILING AS COUPLES LAUGH AND DRINK AND SMOKE IN CELEBRATION. GOOD TIME. 00:38:41 - GANGSTER GETS BAD NEWS WHISPERED IN HIS EAR AT NIGHT CLUB TABLE AND BREAKS UP THE PARTY. GANGSTERS TALK BUSINESS IN A NIGHT CLUB. 00:39:22 - TABLE OF PARTY GOERS IN A HARLEM NIGHT CLUB GET UP TO LEAVE THEIR TABLE. GENTLEMEN AT THE TABLE HELP WOMEN ON WITH THEIR COATS. 00:39:36 - NIGHT CLUB HOPS AS TABLES OF PATRONS PARTY AND PEOPLE DANCE TO BIG BAND JAZZ. 00:39:43 - WS FROM ABOVE LOOKING DOWN ON THE DANCE FLOOR. 00:39:57 - COORDINATED DANCING GIRLS WEAR BLACK SEQUINED TAP PANTS AND TOP HATS. GIRLS SWING THEIR CANES IN THE AIR AS THEY DANCE TO BIG BAND JAZZ. 00:40:03 - PARTY TABLE SITS EMPTY, STREAMERS AND CONFETTI HANG FROM THE CEILING. 00:40:11 - COORDINATED DANCING GIRLS 00:40:20 - CHAUFFEUR-DRIVEN CAR DRIVING THROUGH CITY STREETS AT NIGHT, THE BACK SEAT PASSENGERS LOOK NERVOUSLY OUT THE BACK WINDOW. 00:40:26 - BACK SEAT GANGSTER HOLDS A HAND GUN PISTOL OUT THE WINDOW. 00:40:29 - HEAD ON CAMERA ANGLE, GANGSTERS DRIVE AT NIGHT. VEHICLE ROCKS LIGHTLY BACK AND FOURTH AS MOBSTERS DRIVE THROUGH CITY STREETS AT NIGHT. GAME OF CAT AND MOUSE. LOW SPEED CAR CHASE. 00:41:31 - A STOP LIGHT TURNS. MCU SIDE VIEW OF A CAR COMING TO A STOP AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT AT NIGHT. DARK IMAGE, NOT MUCH DEFINITION. 00:41:51 - A MOBSTER DROPS HIS GIRLFRIEND OFF AFTER A DATE. THE TWO KISS GOODBYE. 00:42:16 - ANGRY MOBSTERS TALK ABOUT RIVALS. MOBSTERS WEAR FEDORA'S, PIN STRIPE DOUBLE BREASTED SUITS. 00:42:35 - A BEAUTUFUL YOUNG WOMAN (SNYDER) PLAYS PIANO IN HER APARTMENT. THE WOMAN IS INTERRUPTED BY A KNOCK AT THE DOOR. TWO MOBSTERS PUSH THERE WAY INTO THE YOUNG WOMANS APARTMENT AND THREATEN / INTIMIDATE HER. 00:43:58 - A YOUNG STARLETT SERENADES HER MOB BOYFRIEND OVER THE TELEPHONE. A GANGSTER HOLDS THE PHONE TO THE WOMAN'S HEAD AND FORCES HER TO SING A SONG / HARASSMENT. INTIMIDATON TECHNIQUES. A BLACK MAN DANGLES A SMOKING CIGARETTE FROM HIS MOUTH AS HE PLAYS PIANO. THE YOUNG STARLETTE SINGS A SULTRY NIGHT CLUB TUNE. 00:46:27 - A MAN (COOPER) GETS DISCONNECTED FROM THE TELEPHONE. HE FRANTICALLY CLICKS THE RECEIVER OVER AND OVER. 00:46:45 - TWO MOBSTERS INTRUDE IN A WOMANS APARTMENT. THE GANGSTERS / BULLIES / INTRUDERS RIP THE TELEPHONE CORD FROM THE WALL / HARASSMENT. 00:47:17 - MOBSTERS OPEN THE FRONT DOOR TO THEIR OFFICE AND DEAD CONCIERGE DOORMAN FALLS TO THE FLOOR. MURDER. 00:47:34 - HANDWRITTEN NOTE ATTACHED TO THE BODY OF DEAD GANGSTER. THE NOTE THREATENS RIVAL GANGSTERS. 00:48:13 - WS FROM A CITY ROOF TOP LOOKING DOWN AT A TREE LINED STREET. 00:49:15 - BLACK GANGSTERS SHARE A DRINK AT A BAR. MEN DRINK SHOT FROM A SHOOTER GLASS. TWO RIVAL MOBSTERS PUNCH THE MEN IN THE FACE, BAR ROOM FIGHT, MEN COLLAPSE. 00:49:26 - GANGSTERS APPROACH A MAN LEANING ON PINBALL MACHINE. THE MEN PULL THEIR PISTOLS HANDGUNS AND SHOOT MAN IN COLD BLOOD. GANG LAND FIGHTING. 00:49:34 - COUPLE MEET AND GREET ON THE STREET. WORRIED GIRLFRIEND DOTES OVER HER BOYFRIEND. BAD BOYS IN TROUBLE. 00:50:31 - COUPLE ARGUE ON THE STREET. 00:51:18 - YOUNG BEAUTIFUL WOMAN STANDS IN TELEPHONE BOOTH AND CONTACTS THE POLICE. 00:51:36 - POLICE OFFICER ANSWERS A POLICE PHONE ON THE STREET. "POLICE TELEGRAPH" BOX. 00:51:44 - DOOR TO A POLICE STATION. POLICE CARS DRIVE OUT OF POLICE STATION WITH SIRENS WAILING. EMERGENCY RESPONSE. 00:52:12 - MOBSTERS PLAN A GET AWAY. 00:52:57 - ANGRY GANGSTER PULLS HANDGUN PISTOL ON HIS RIVAL. TWO BAD GUYS THREATENING A VICTIM WITH GUN. GANGSTER OPENS FIRE AT CLOSE RANGE ON HIS RIVALS. THE VICTIMS FALL TO THE GROUND AS THEY HOLD THEIR CHESTS IN AGONY. 00:53:21 - POLICE PURSUE A CRIMINAL WAITING IN GETAWAY VEHICLE OUTSIDE A CRIME SCENE. THE DRIVER JUMPS FROM CAR AND STARTS TO RUN. POLICE CHASE THE MAN ON FOOT. COPS, OFFICERS CAPTURE, APPREHEND CRIMINAL AS HE RUNS AROUND A CORNER IN AN ESCAPE ATTEMPT. 00:53:38 - CRIMINALS STARE OUT THE WINDOW OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING AS COPS SURROUNDTHE CRIME SCENE. FUGITIVES PLOT AN ESCAPE PLAN. POLICE SIRENS WAIL IN EMERGENCY RESPONSE. 00:54:10 - POLICE OFFICER RESPONSE UNIT STANDS AT THE FOOT OF APARTMENT BUILDING AND LOOK UP AS THEY HEAR GUNFIRE. 00:54:12 - COPS WITH BATONS AND GUNS RUN AROUND THE PERIMETER OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING LOOKING FOR BAD GUYS. 00:54:32 - 1940 ELEVATOR COUNTER MOVES DOWN. 00:54:54 - TWO BLACK POLICE OFFICERS FIRE THEIR PISTOLS AT A CRIMINAL ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE. ONE CRIMINAL IS SHOT IN THE BACK AND FALLS INTO THE GUTTER AS HIS PARTNER DRIVES WILDLY AWAY. THE POLICE OFFICERS CONTINUE TO SHOOT AT THE VEHICLE AS IT DRIVES AWAY. CAT AND MOUSE, POLICE CHASE. 00:55:07 - POLICE CHASE THROUGH THE STREETS OF 1940s HARLEM. POLICE ON MOTORCYCLES PURSUE A CRIMINAL. 00:55:55 - POLICE ON MOTORBIKES RUN RED LIGHTS AT TRAFFIC STOPS. 00:56:08 - POLICE ON MOTORCYCLES TURN A SLIPPERY CORNER, PAVEMENT WET WITH WATER. ONE OFFICER LOOSES CONTROL OF HIS BIKE AND CRASHES IT. 00:56:13 - ANGRY MOBSTER CONFRONTS HIS GIRLFRIEND. AND ANGRY BOYFRIEND PUSHES HIS GIRL, GRABS HER FACE AND PUSHES IT AWAY. 00:57:06 - POLICE OFFICER TALKS FROM A DARK PHONE BOOTH. 00:57:39 - YOUNG COUPLE BREAKING UP TALK SENTIMENTALLY ABOUT BETTER DAYS. 00:58:14 - POLICE LIEUTENANT COMES TO TAKE A CRIMINAL OUT OF HIDING. POLICE OFFICER ASKS A CRIMINAL ON THE RUN TO SURRENDER HIS FREEDOM. 00:59:08 - CRIMINAL ASSAULTS A POLICE OFFICER AND STEALS HIS GUN TO ESCAPE CAPTURE BY THE AUTHORITIES. GUN SHOTS ARE FIRED. 00:59:26 - POLICE OFFICERS PURSUE A CRIMINAL THROUGH THE HALLWAYS OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING. COPS SHOOT AT THE CRIMINAL AS HE TRIES TO ESCAPE. 00:59:28 - COPS AND ROBBER CHASE CONTINUES ON THE ROOFTOP OF BUILDING. POLICE OFFICERS SHOOT WILDLY AT THEIR CRIMINAL TARGET ON THE ROOF. PLUMES OF SMOKE RISE UP FROM THE BARREL OF THE SHOOTING GUN. 01:00:44 - CRIMINAL TAKING SHELTER FROM POLICE GUNFIRE BEHIND ROOF TOP CHIMNEY. BAD GUY REPEATEDLY CLICKS THE TRIGGER ON AN EMPTY GUN. GUN OUT OF BULLETS. 01:00:53 - CRIMINAL HIDES BEHIND A CORNER ON A ROOF TOP AND ATTEMPTS TO RE LOAD HIS EMPTY PISTOL. POLICE CLOSE IN ON THEIR CRIMINAL. 01:01:54 - COP ON A ROOFTOP LEDGE FIRES 1940s MACHINE GUN AT RUNNING CRIMINAL TARGET. THE COP RIDDLES BAD GUY WITH BULLETS. BAD GUY FALLS DRAMATICALLY FROM HIS FATAL WOUNDS. 01:02:06 - DEAD GUY ROLLS DOWN A STAIRWELL AFTER BEING SHOT BY POLICE. THE CRIMINAL SHATTERS A WINDOW AS HE FALLS. TWO BY STANDERS LOOK IN HORROR AS THE CRIMINAL ROLLS TO HIS DEATH IN FRONT OF THEM. 01:02:25 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINE READS "GANG WAR".
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: V-1136