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Jack "Legs" Diamond
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
1960
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond is a 1960 crime film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Ray Danton, Karen Steele and Elaine Stewart. The supporting cast features Warren Oates, Jesse White and Robert Lowery. The picture marked the film debut of Dyan Cannon and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Howard Shoup .
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond: Directed by Budd Boetticher. With Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart, Jesse White. Neo-noir about a small-time New York City criminal whose ambition is to become a big-time crime boss during the Prohibition era.
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- Biography, Crime, History
- Budd Boetticher
- 1960-05-15
Rent The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. The New York killer (Ray Danton) goes from mob bodyguard to mob boss to mob target.
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- Ray Danton
- Budd Boetticher
- United States Pictures
The rise of Prohibition-era mobster Legs Diamond plays like a spoof of gangster cool: Diamond woos a woman, wins a dance contest and pulls a jewel heist all on a single day. It’s a narcissistic come on that makes this smooth operator’s crash all the more shocking, a ruthless individualist left twisting in the wind.
Jun 22, 2017 · The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond occupies a curious place in the canon of Budd Boetticher’s work. Though he directed a few films with criminal elements, such as his superb thriller The Killer is Loose (1956), and a series of “B” programmers including The Missing Juror (1944) and Behind Locked Doors (1948) in his early days in Hollywood, Legs Diamond was Boetticher’s one and only real ...
The supporting cast of The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond is also notable and includes Warren Oates in one of his first substantial parts as Diamond's sickly, doomed brother, prolific character actor Jesse White as Diamond's arch rival Leo Bremer and Dyan Cannon, billed here as Diane Cannon, in a brief bit as a bubble-headed gangster moll. Karen ...
Director. Joseph Landon. Writer. 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.
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