The Black Hand (1906)

Directed by

Wallace McCutcheon, Sr.

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

11 min

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent film from 1906 about a criminal gang operating in an Italian neighborhood in New York. It shows a kidnapping and the response from the community and police.

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What happens

The Black Hand (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 by motion-picture historians to be the earliest surviving gangster film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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