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Queen of the Mob is a american film of genre Drama directed by James Patrick Hogan released in USA on 28 june 1940 with Ralph Bellamy
Queen of the Mob (1940)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 28 june 1940
Length 1h1
Directed by James Patrick Hogan
OriginUSA
Themes Gangster films
Rating62%
Queen of the Mob is a 1940 American film (also known as The Woman from Hell), directed by James P. Hogan.
The source material here was a book attributed to Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover entitled Persons in Hiding. The events are loosely based on the kidnapping of Edward Bremer by the Barker-Karpis gang, which Hoover believed to have been led by Ma Barker. The names of the persons involved and other details of events were changed at the request of the FBI.
^ J Edgar Hoover (1938). Person in Hiding. (Courtney Ryley Cooper thought to be ghost writer). Little, Brown and Co. ASIN B0006EOKXI.
^ Hardy, Philip (ed), The BFI Companion to Crime, British Film Institute, 1997, p.42.
Synopsis
Infamous Ma Webster rules her clan of mobsters – mainly consisting of her three more or less criminally inclined sons – with an iron hand and without mercy. She is the terror of Centre City. She refuses to let anyone else handle the planning of all the clan's robberies, much to George Frost's dismay. George is the only clan member who isn't related to Ma Webster. George protests and makes a fuss about this, but to no avail. Ma and her sons Eddie, Charlie and Tom team up with George on Christmas Eve itself to rob the Centre City bank. They are warned, however, by Bert, Ma's more lawful son, who studies law and disdains the criminal behaviour of the rest of his family. Bert urges his mother and his brothers to get out of town to prevent them from being arrested for previous crimes the police and the FBI have found evidence of.Actors
Ralph Bellamy
(Agent Scott Langham)
Blanche Yurka
(Ma Webster)
J. Carrol Naish
(George Frost)
Jeanne Cagney
(Ethel Webster (as Jean Cagney))
William Henry
(Bert Webster)
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