The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

Crime, History

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Budd Boetticher

Status Released

Release Date 1960-02-03

Storyline

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.

"The Wildest Mobster of the Roaring Twenties!"