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While in prison with his father, Frank Calabrese Sr., on racketeering charges, Frank Jr, a former member of the Chicago crime syndicate known as the Outfit, offered to help the FBI keep his father in prison for life by testifying against him. Now in the federal witness protection program and living in an undisclosed location, Frank Jr. gives an insider's view of the Outfit and how he helped expose its crimes.
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Rock Island, Illinois -- 1929. Michael O'Sullivan is a good father and a family man -- and also the chief enforcer for John Looney, the town's Irish Godfather of crime. As Looney's "Angel of Death," O'Sullivan has done the bidding of Chicago gangsters Al Capone and Frank Nitti as well -- but when a gangland execution spells tragedy for the O'Sullivan family, a grieving father and his adolescent son find themselves on a winding road of treachery, revenge,...
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"In the early 2000's, John Corbett struck thrifter's gold in a going-out-of-business Chicago junk shop when he stumbled onto a 1933 manuscript intimately documenting the Chicago Mafia. The tone of the browned and brittled pages immediately grabbed him-sensationalistic and funny, they read like an embellished police blotter as they named names, gave addresses, and detailed crimes. Presented here in facsimile in order to capture the physicality of the...
27) Al Capone: icon
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Al Capone, the quintessential self-made American man, ruthless killer or both? This film chronicles the complicated life of one of America's favorite mob bosses.
29) Scarface
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"One of the most influential movies of all time, the original Scarface is an exciting story of organized crime's brutal control over Chicago during the prohibition era [about] Tony Camonte, an ambitious criminal with a ruthless drive to be the city's top crime boss. This compelling tale of ambition, betrayal and revenge is a groundbreaking masterpiece that influenced all gangster films to follow."--Container.
32) Gangster Land
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With a backdrop of the roaring 1920s, the Italian and Irish mobs bloody the streets of Chicago during the infamous gangland wars. Al Capone, and his Machine Gunner Jack McGurn, take on Bugs Moran and the Irish mob in a battle that culminates with the Valentine's Day Massacre.
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Trylogia chicagowska volume tom 1
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Polish
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"Chicago, rok 1918. Sierżant Teodor Rucki dopiero rozpoczyna karierę w policji, ale brak doświadczenia nadrabia ulicznym sprytem i szybkimi pięściami. W polskiej dzielnicy ktoś podrzuca bestialsko okaleczone zwłoki, a na płocie i w pobliskim kościele maluje farbą anarchistyczny napis. Rucki rozpoczyna śledztwo, które prowadzi go przez najbiedniejsze i najniebezpieczniejsze rejony miasta. Morderca zabija kolejne ofiary w okrutny i teatralny...
34) Al Capone
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An account of the life of Al Capone, tracing his rise to the top of Chicago's underworld.
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Picture Don Corleone in Mario Puzo's 'The Godfather". Throw in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the murders of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Marilyn Monroe, Bugsy Siegel, Sam Giancana, Lucky Luciano, Tony the Ant Spilotro, Johnny Roselli and Jimmy Hoffa. Toss in Hollywood scandal and the mobbed up career of Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack. Now you can begin to grasp the epic story of Tony Accardo. Why has this story never been told? Accardo...
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Film noir police thriller arout five characters through a particularly bad night in a Chicago police precinct: Johnny Kelly, a stressed out cop ready to crack; Sally 'Angel Face' Connors, a lounge singer looking for a way out; Hayes Stewart, a thug-for-hire who's dying to move up in the syndicate; Penrod Biddle, a smooth and corrupt district attorney; and Sgt. Joe, an honest cop trying to keep Johnny on a straight path.
40) The sting
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A young con man teams up with a seasoned con man to win money from a criminal banker in 1930s Chicago.
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