"HOW TO SUCCEED AS A GANGSTER" 1930s PROHIBITION ERA ORGANIZED CRIME MOVIES AL CAPONE 42624

This black & white educational/promotional film is a look at the gangster films of the 1930s. From Cagney to Robinson, a montage of clips along with newsreel footage of real life criminals Al Capone and John Dillinger. This is from 1961 or 1963, research shows both dates.
Opening titles: "How To Succeed As A Gangster" (:07-:12). Barrels of liquor and beer are smashed and opened, it is Prohibition. Liquor goes down the sewer. Couples dance. People drink alcohol. Policemen arrest gangsters. Gangsters are led, handcuffed, into a building. "Scarface" Al Capone walks. He is led down the steps past newsmen. Capone watches a horse race. In Florida, Capone has a palatial estate. A dead man lays on a city street. The body is covered with a blanket. The funeral in Chicago, IL for Dean O'Banion. Cars go slow in the funeral procession (:12-3:00). John Dillinger. John sits in a jail cell. Hollywood studio. In the 1930s, the studios make gangster movies. Lights at night of NYC. People enter a movie theater. John Dillinger looks a little like Humphrey Bogart. Al Capone like Edward G. Robinson. Dean O'Banion like James Cagney. Other actors in gangster films include: John Garfield, Spencer Tracy, George Raft, Paul Muni, and William Powell. Hollywood backlot, extras get ready, cameras are ready on a prison set. The director speaks with extras, returns to his seat and begins filming. Slums of NYC in the Hollywood backlot. Scenes show: James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, John Garfield, Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, and William Powell (3:01-7:08). Benefits of being a gangster: Women. James Cagney in The Public Enemy, the classic grapefruit scene with co-star Mae Clark. Scenes showing Cagney roughing up women (7:09-8:37). Dangerous men play cards. Edward G. Robinson scene in Little Caesar. Scenes showing Robinson being tough (8:38-10:05). James Cagney. Scenes showing Cagney, Robinson, Garfield roughing up others. Violence leads to violence. Gunplay in gangster movies. Police stand near their cars at a roadblock as a gangster tries to pass through. Police chase a gangster and shoot at one another. Motorcycles chase a car and shoot at it. Cars crash. Police on motorcycles. A gangster takes on the entire police force, lots of shots fired. A giant brawl on the street. Shots are fired (10:06-13:24). No end credits.
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[@meat-eatingvegan6597]

A soda siphon to the face never gets old.

[@georgeplagianos6487]

I heard the ex Minnesota governor Ventura said on the radio Al Capone had more social programs like feeding the unemployed population in Chicago during the depression way before the government started right after the depression started

[@kesmarn]

The Tammany organization did a lot of good for low income folks in NYC in its day also. The had a type of integrity that the "official" "welfare" system often lacked.

[@MOS-su6bv]

My grandfather always said the 2 best people this country ever had were FDR because he got us out of the depression and Al Capone fed us during it. That's one reason he's still revered in this city. He helped a lot of people put food on their tables and people never forgot that

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally telecast on "HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS", on November 4, 1963. This was the first half of the episode.

[@JackT_Music_on_Vinyl]

Love this.

[@kevinaustin9719]

I always rooted for the bad guys love gangster movies bogie and cagney still watching 6/3/20

[@vinnydaq13]

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[@theshib277]

Banana oil

[@AckzaTV]

if ur a gangster "Women find you irresistible, if you handle them with care"

[@firstnamegklsodascb4277]

the 30s were lit

[@maunster3414]

@firstname gklsodascb, yes they were! It hadn't been made illegal at the start.

[@gaygaz9737]

@@maunster3414 Very funny.

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[@rufrignkidnme4701]

2:16 sounds like a slow weekend for Chicago today

[@marctronixx]

WOW this was GREAT !!!!!

[@chrisrattray8958]

This woulda been much better if the brightness was turned up!

[@mikeg.5233]

Criminal success ends up in the big house. If that's the definition of success, so be it. Big Al ended up in Alcatraz in a cold cell. 😂😂😂

[@AckzaTV]

9:05 LIL CESEAR ???? WHAT? is THAT where that name comes from? I totally can imagine im sayin "Pizza Pizza seee"

[@12gauge1oz]

addendum: Joseph Cotten should talk, he perpetuated similar myths in the rolls he played. A t least Bogart, Cagney, Rapp, etc. were believable tough guys!

[@chrisrattray8958]

Now Chicago would happily trade it’s crime situation any day for its old gangsters.

[@natemyers4946]

Hell naw. Be glad we have the ones we have today. The gangsters of the 30s were some of the most vicious, evil men of the underworld, and don't forget they were big time sex traffickers too with all those prostitution houses they had. They were also throwing grenades in people's businesses(a terrorist act) and killed politicians in broad daylight. Naw I'm thankful for the young guys 😂

[@daveman5860]

thousands of gallons of booze into the rivers and streams the fish got s***-faced.

[@satanofficial3902]

Everyone gangsta until Elliot Ness shows up.

[@satanofficial3902]

Much to the constant annoyance of Frank Nitti. Or at least the TV The Untouchables version. And no, "Nitti" isn't an italian surname. It's inuit. Obviously.

[@satanofficial3902]

"La Cosa Nostra"... inuit for "Tupperware Party Goers".

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[@suzannakoizumi8605]

You have scenes from I Am A Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang playing while the narrator is speaking of gangsters. My father Robert E. Burns was the true Fugitive who wrote the book. He was no gangster. He was a Saint. He was the most honest man. He was a Brooklyn man who volunteered for WW1 with the 14th NY Engineers. He was is all seven of the major battles we fought across France. He was sentenced to the chain gang WITHOUT a trial. He was eventually given a full pardon by GA. He was innocent and sentenced to 10 years on the chain gang. He was not any kind of gangster.

[@kesmarn]

Thanks so much for posting this! I saw that movie as a kid and it scared the heck out of me. Largely because it was the first time I came into the realization that innocent people could end up in prison --- with next to zero prospect of being able to get out. That the "justice" system wasn't infallible. Scary thoughts for a 10 year old. But I gained a lot of sympathy for people who are wrongfully convicted and incarcerated and it has lasted throughout my life. God bless the memory of your father.

[@suzannakoizumi8605]

Thank you.

[@michelebeck4311]

Goodie this one

[@jimmyhuesandthehouserocker1069]

It's hard to imagine how simple-minded and naive people were, to think prohibition could have ever accomplished national sobriety. What an innocent world it must have been back then. It's like people today who want to ban cigarettes, who are too dumb to see in how if you did so, people would not quit smoking, it's just the underworld would take over where the legitimate channels left off. You cannot outlaw demand.

[@TheGreatWent1]

good stuff

[@natemyers4946]

The public still loves gangsters, especially in Chicago. King Von was a notorious hitman and when he died had everyone saying "miss you von." Wtf??

[@manhoot]

I'm going gangsta

[@drpoundsign]

Damm it feels good to be a Gangsta

[@cojones8518]

1:30 A humble used furniture merchant.

[@AckzaTV]

woah this is crazy film reel title lol right out of that one star trek original seires episode lol where they leave a gangster bible behind and the planet goes all turbo capitalism

[@AckzaTV]

chicago had 20 THOUSAND illegal bars? wtf did everyone have one in their basement? lol

[@kesmarn]

Pretty much.

[@alanwood5857]

Glad the Tommy gun made an appearance.

[@gaygaz9737]

I see, by your comment, that you have a sense of humour or in American English, humor.

[@Game_Hero]

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[@cminor3016]

2:09: isn't this ironic? When the government was doing exactly the same thing?! But on a global scale, as they are doing now?

[@jaminova_1969]

Some people may beg to differ but the Mafia kept the streets safe in New York.

[@christopherconard2831]

Years of watching The Simpsons has ruined Edward G Robinson for me. I keep hearing Chief Clancy.

[@marctronixx]

Glad I've not ever watched one episode of the Simpsons.

[@vinnydaq13]

Christopher Conard And mayor Diamond Joe Quimby is a low-rent JFK.

[@mediamonarchyplus]

"How to Succeed As a Gangster" aka Government

[@alexcarter8807]

The narrator sounds jealous AF

[@drpoundsign]

The War on Booze failed... so did the War on Drugs.

[@mabamabam]

A couple years back I went to the Constitution museum in Philly. They had a whole section on how dumb prohibition was. Didnt once mention drug prohibition. It was the most blatant omission I've ever seen

[@drpoundsign]

@@mabamabam Well...booze and tobacco are white folks' drugs (I'm Caucasion-BTW.) OK-tobacco started out Native American, and Alcohol has ruined the modern Native Americans. But, Pot and Coke were not "white" drugs. Heroin is semisynthetic-from Morphine, which, in turn, is from Opium; used in the Orient.

[@hugoqua4750]

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[@gaygaz9737]

I agree. Correction: So 'is' the war on drugs.

[@lindathrall5133]

START TALKIN OR I TEAR YOU APART GOT IT

[@2centsworth766]

Go into politics.

[@cindytrayer4279]

Today, it’s known as the democrat party

[@12gauge1oz]

Hollywood leftists, ages old.

[@Djohn_john]

Lol, mad or sumin? Triggered? Thanks for the comment babycakes.

[@alitlweird]

**Democrat training film**