The 1930s was the Golden Age of the gangster flick, the period in Hollywood history where almost every cliché and archetype about the cinematic mob life was created. A nation sandwiched between the ...
In 1931, Warner Brothers released the compact, brutish gangster classic Little Caesar to a movie-going public that had escaped the eye-opening inhumanity of the Industrial Revolution and World War I, ...
This interview was originally broadcast on Aug. 9, 2010. 'Get Capone' is now available in paperback. In Get Capone, writer Jonathan Eig takes us back to the roaring '20s in Chicago, when cops and ...