The Last Gangster
United States
1937
81 Min
Black and White
1.37:1
English
Synopsis
Set in the prohibition era, gangster Joe Krozac (Edward G. Robinson) is in prison for 10 years. Reporter Paul North (James Stewart) is hired by a newspaper to write unsympathetic articles about Krozac’s wife Talya (Rosa Stradner) and son. Defying his editor, he strikes up a relationship with her and he is fired. After visiting Krozac in prison, Talya divorces him. and marries North. They move away to start a new life. 10 years later when Krozac is released from prison, he goes looking for his former wife and son. He soon falls in with his old gang who turn on him and try to force him to reveal the whereabouts of a stash of loot that he hid before he was incarcerated. Krozac resists and the gang kidnap his son. Krozac and his son eventually escape. He tries to strike up a relationship with his son, but the boy wants nothing to do with him. Krozac swears vengeance upon his ex-wife and new spouse. —Wikipedia
Director
Edward Ludwig
Russian-born Edward Ludwig came to the U.S. as a child and was educated in Canada and New York City. He entered the film business as an actor in silents, then became a scenarist and screenwriter, and in the early 1930s, started directing. Although most of his films were routine second features, he showed a flair for action pictures, a good example of which is a John Wayne war epic he made for Republic, The Fighting Seabees (1944), one of Wayne’s better and most successful films for that studio. In the mid-’60s he turned to directing TV series. —IMDb
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