The Black Hand (1906 film)

The Black Hand
Directed by Wallace McCutcheon
Starring Anthony O'Sullivan
Robert G. Vignola
Production
company
Release date
 March 29, 1906
Running time
 11 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent film

The Black Hand (1906) — full title The Black Hand: True Story of a Recent Occurrence in the Italian Quarter of New York — is an American silent film directed by Wallace McCutcheon. It is generally considered the earliest surviving gangster film.[1][2]

Plot summary

In New York City, an Italian-American gang kidnaps the daughter of an Italian butcher, demanding a ransom of $1,000. The butcher refuses to pay and calls the police, breaking the code of omertà. The thugs are arrested and the little girl is rescued.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Christine Bold, Joad Raymond, The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture: Volume Six: US Popular Print Culture 1860-1920, OUP Oxford, 2011, p.193
  2. ↑ Daniel Bernardi,Michael Green, Race in American Film, ABC-CLIO, 2017, p.338
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