Part of the Encore Film Book Classics series, this is a reprint of the original text to The Great Gangster Pictures: Volume 1 by James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts. This richly detailed volume covers over 300 gangster films, serials, and TV movies produced over the decades. The movies discussed in detail range from the early silent film, The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) to such later genre entries as Underworld (1927), Broadway (1929), Little Caesar (1931), Scarface: Shame of a Nation (1932), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Glass Key (1942), The Killers (1946), White Heat (1949), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The Racket (1951), New York Confidential (1955), Some Like It Hot (1959), Point Blank (1967), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), The Brotherhood (1968), The Godfather (1972), and Lucky Luciano (1974). Each entry includes detailed cast/characters and technical credits, a discussion of the film, and review quotes. This work also includes a history of gangster films and a list of genre radio and TV series. This engaging and useful reference volume is aimed as a guide for both movie fans and cinema historians. It is also an excellent comprehensive sourcebook to many of the genre entries now available for viewing on television, the Internet, and DVDs.