The Purple Gang Vinyl Radio Spot Violent Juvenile Delinquents Gangsters
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Rare radio spot!!!
The Purple Gang (1959)
[Prologue] This picture is based on information from official files which revealed the shocking story of the wave of juvenile delinquency which spawned Detroit's Purple Gang. Incredible as it may seem, this youthful rat-pack of terrorists dominated the city's underworld for more than a decade during the prohibition era.
The Purple Gang is a 1960 American period crime film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Barry Sullivan, Robert Blake and Jody Lawrance.[1] It portrays the activities of The Purple Gang bootlegging organization in Detroit in the 1920s
The Purple Gang (1959)
A teenage rat pack of the Detroit slums, the Purple Gang, headed by psychotic William Joseph "Honeyboy" Willard, teams with adult hijackers during prohibition and in three years controls the city's underworld. Detective Bill Harley is given a special assignment to break the gang. To intimidate Harley, Honeyboy and his chief henchman, Hank Smith, terrorize his pregnant wife Gladys, who loses her baby and dies. The gang moves in on the cleaning and dyeing industry, which calls in the Mafia for protection. Hank tries to tip off Harley about where the Mafia hoods are holed up but Honeyboy, mistaking his intentions, has Killer Burke seal him alive in a coffin and drop him into the Detroit River. Honeyboy locates the Mafia headquarters in an apartment building and goes there with two of his men. They break in and machine-gun the three Mafia leaders: Licovetti, Ricco and Castiglione.
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