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Baby Face Nelson (1957)

Baby Face Nelson poster
Directed by
Don Siegel
Genre
film noir, biographical film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 29 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A gangster named Baby Face Nelson goes on a crime spree during the 1930s. The movie follows his rise and fall as he commits robberies and murders.

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What happens

Baby Face Nelson is a 1957 American film noir crime film based on the real-life 1930s gangster, directed by Don Siegel, co-written by Daniel Mainwaring—who also wrote the screenplay for Siegel's 1956 sci-fi thriller Invasion of the Body Snatchers—and starring Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke, Leo Gordon as Dillinger, Anthony Caruso, Jack Elam, John Hoyt and Elisha Cook Jr. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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