Black Hand (1950)

Directed by

Richard Thorpe

Genre

drama film, film noir, crime film, gangster film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Italian immigrant in early 1900s New York fights a criminal gang that extorts his community. He works with police to take down the organization targeting his family.

tensegrittyearnestperiod-settingunsettlingsomberdetermined

What happens

Black Hand is a 1950 American film noir directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Gene Kelly as an Italian immigrant fighting against the Black Hand extortion racket in New York City in the first decade of the 20th century. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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