 Editor in Chief Bill   | 21 May 2015 6:54 a.m. PST |
Which Prohibition Era gangsters (1920-1933) are your favorite? |
 x42brown  | 21 May 2015 7:07 a.m. PST |
Billy Fullerton of the Billy Boys. x42 |
| Coelacanth | 21 May 2015 7:08 a.m. PST |
Paul Muni as Tony Camonte in Scarface, 1932 Scarface. Ron |
| John the OFM | 21 May 2015 7:17 a.m. PST |
Owney Madden and Dion O'Bannion. I like all the Irish hoods. |
| Lee Brilleaux | 21 May 2015 7:47 a.m. PST |
Dion O' Bannion, florist/mobster. It was a different time. I'm trying to recall the name of the Chicago Outfit guy – a Welshman – who invented money laundering. That's right. He bought up a chain of local laundries to filter cash through the system. |
| Mute Bystander | 21 May 2015 8:53 a.m. PST |
Favorite? I don't have a favorite Gangster. |
| Frederick | 21 May 2015 9:01 a.m. PST |
Willie "The Actor" Sutton for Sutton's Law – even though he never said it, he gets the credit |
| Hlaven | 21 May 2015 9:10 a.m. PST |
James Cagney in White Heat Or Real life Dillenger |
| Hlaven | 21 May 2015 9:11 a.m. PST |
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| Sigwald | 21 May 2015 9:29 a.m. PST |
Owney Madden and Knucky Johnson.
My grandfather and his "gypsy" jazz band supposedly played for Knucky at his wedding. My dad was sometimes suddenly forbidden from associating with non-Irish kids whose parents learned his last name was Madden as they assumed him a relation. |
| Sundance | 21 May 2015 9:45 a.m. PST |
Growing up in Chicago and having frequented the Biograph theater, I have to say Dillinger, who was also sort of a Robin Hood of the Depression. Of course, I grew up in an Italian neighborhood with a colorful mob presence (my brothers went to school with Antoinette Giancana's kids, my flight instructor lived next door to Sammy Giancana, and Chuckie English was found dead at a restaurant we used to pass frequently), I know the Italian mobsters of the '80s and '90s better. |
| Gone Fishing | 21 May 2015 9:54 a.m. PST |
Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson, if only for the names! |
| Winston Smith | 21 May 2015 10:05 a.m. PST |
Mad Dog Coll?
Machine Gun Kelly? |
| Winston Smith | 21 May 2015 10:09 a.m. PST |
I like how Owney Madden had Mad Dog Coll wiped out for bringing gangsters into disrepute.
Then he "retired" to Little Rock where one of his molls was reputed to be the mother of a future President.
Naming no names….
But even if it isn't true, it's a hoot of a story. |
| abelp01 | 21 May 2015 10:35 a.m. PST |
Dillinger. read his bio and you'll see why. |
| Shagnasty | 21 May 2015 11:17 a.m. PST |
Another vote for Dillinger. |
 Murphy  | 21 May 2015 12:53 p.m. PST |
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| brass1 | 21 May 2015 1:08 p.m. PST |
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| Cyrus the Great | 21 May 2015 1:32 p.m. PST |
Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders. |
| mad monkey 1 | 21 May 2015 1:56 p.m. PST |
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| B6GOBOS | 21 May 2015 2:32 p.m. PST |
"Pretty Boy" Floyd. He rip up the farm mortgages from the banks he robbed (like woody Guthrie sang). |
| Cyrus the Great | 21 May 2015 2:50 p.m. PST |
Don Vito Corleone is another fictional mobster that would fall in this time frame. |
| War Panda | 21 May 2015 3:12 p.m. PST |
My first mortgage broker…oh I guess its meant to be the 30's sorry I'm not that old |
| troopwo | 21 May 2015 4:55 p.m. PST |
Given the public attitude of bank foreclosures, anything to do against banking institutions was pretty much guaranteed public support at the time. "Take them for whatever you can,,,". |
| Bunkermeister | 21 May 2015 7:03 p.m. PST |
I have no liking nor respect for gangsters of any era and I despise the glamorization of thugs and crime. I prefer Melvin Pervis & Eliot Ness. Mike Bunkermeister Creek
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| FusilierDan | 22 May 2015 4:40 a.m. PST |
Legs Diamond or Dutch Schultz. |
 miniMo | 22 May 2015 6:44 p.m. PST |
Joan Blondell as Blondie Johnson, 1933.
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