Portrait of a Mobster

Portrait of a Mobster
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Written by Howard Browne
Starring Vic Morrow
Leslie Parrish
Ray Danton
Music by stock music by Max Steiner arranged by Howard Jackson
Cinematography Gene Polito
Edited by Leo H. Shreve
Production
company
Release date
 January 5, 1962
Running time
 108 mins.
Country United States
Language English

Portrait of a Mobster is a 1961 film directed by Joseph Pevney. It stars Vic Morrow, Leslie Parrish and Ray Danton repeating his role as 'Legs' Diamond.[1]

Plot

Up-and-coming racketeer Dutch Schultz joins the Legs Diamond gang in Prohibition-era New York. A bootlegger named Murphy is murdered by Dutch, who falls for the dead man's daughter, Iris.

Iris marries her fiancé, Frank Brennan, a police detective. They need money and Frank accepts payoffs from Dutch, who is forming a gang of his own.

After getting rid of Legs, Mad Dog Coll and others standing in his way, Dutch again makes a play for Iris, but she learns that he killed her father and begins to drink. Frank vows to reform and win her back. Betraying his pal Bo to the mob, Dutch discovers that a hit has been put out on himself as well. While fighting for his life, he is shot by Bo by mistake and is killed.

Score

Howard Jackson compiled the score from White Heat and four other Max Steiner scores.[2]

Cast

References

  1. ↑ http://www.allmovie.com/movie/portrait-of-a-mobster-v106413
  2. ↑ McCarty, Clifford (1996). "A Max Steiner Filmography". In D'Arc, James; Gillespie, John N. The Max Steiner Collection. Provo, Utah: Special Collections and Manuscripts, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.


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