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Black Hand is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Thorpe released in USA on 12 march 1950 with Gene Kelly
Black Hand (1950)
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Add to a movie listBlack Hand is a 1950 American film noir directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Gene Kelly as an Italian immigrant fighting against the Black Hand extortion racket in New York City in the first decade of the 20th century.
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The film opens in 1900 as Roberto Colombo, an Italian-American attorney living in the Little Italy section of New York City, is killed by gangsters as he meets with a police officer to give information about an attempt to extort money from him. His widow and son return to Italy where his widow dies. In 1908, his son Giovanni Colombo (Gene Kelly) returns to New York City, determined to conduct a vendetta against the men who killed his father. He meets up with childhood friend Isabella Gomboli (Teresa Celli) and police detective Louis Lorelli (J. Carrol Naish), both of whom try to dissuade him.Actors
Gene Kelly
(Giovanni E. 'Johnny' Columbo)
J. Carrol Naish
(Louis Lorelli)
Marc Lawrence
(Caesar Xavier Serpi)
Frank Puglia
(Carlo Sabballera)
Barry Kelley
(Capt. Thompson)
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