Roger Touhy, Gangster

Roger Touhy, Gangster

65 mins | Drama, Crime | June 3, 1944

Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.

Roger Touhy, Gangster

65 mins | Drama, Crime | June 3, 1944

Roger Touhy, Gangster
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title Roger Touhy, Gangster
Directors Robert Florey
Writers Jerome Cady, Crane Wilbur

Cast

Preston Foster

as Roger Touhy

Victor McLaglen

as Herman "Owl" Banghart

Lois Andrews

as Daisy

Kent Taylor

as Steve Warren

Anthony Quinn

as George Carroll

William Post Jr.

as Joseph P. Sutton

Harry Morgan

as Thomas "Smoke" Reardon

Matt Briggs

as Cameron

Moroni Olsen

as Riley

Reed Hadley

as FBI Agent Boyden

Trudy Marshall

as Gloria

John Archer

as FBI Agent Kerrigan

Frank Jenks

as Bernard "Troubles" O'Connor

George E. Stone

as "Ice Box" Hamilton

Charles Lang

as FBI Agent

Kane Richmond

as Mason

Bess Flowers

as Daisy's Courtroom Companion (uncredited)

Byron Foulger

as Court Clerk (uncredited)

Frank Orth

as . Comic in Theater (uncredited)

Addison Richards

as Priest (uncredited)

Roy Roberts

as Frank Williams - FBI Chief (uncredited)

Grant Withers

as FBI Man Detaining 'Ice Box' (uncredited)