Roger Touhy, Gangster
Roger Touhy, Gangster
Release: 1944-06-03
·Runtime: 65m
·★ 6.0
Crime
Drama
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
20th Century Fox
Cast
Preston Foster
as Roger Touhy
Moroni Olsen
as Riley
Reed Hadley
as FBI Agent Boyden
Grant Withers
as FBI Man Detaining 'Ice Box' (uncredited)
William Post Jr.
as Joseph P. Sutton
Harry Morgan
as Thomas "Smoke" Reardon
John Archer
as FBI Agent Kerrigan
Kane Richmond
as Mason
Bess Flowers
as Daisy's Courtroom Companion (uncredited)
Frank Jenks
as Bernard "Troubles" O'Connor
George E. Stone
as "Ice Box" Hamilton
Byron Foulger
as Court Clerk (uncredited)
Frank Orth
as . Comic in Theater (uncredited)
Addison Richards
as Priest (uncredited)
Victor McLaglen
as Herman "Owl" Banghart
Lois Andrews
as Daisy
Kent Taylor
as Steve Warren
Anthony Quinn
as George Carroll
Matt Briggs
as Cameron
Trudy Marshall
as Gloria
Charles Lang
as FBI Agent
Roy Roberts
as Frank Williams - FBI Chief (uncredited)
