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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
German. 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 ...
Audience Member Sometimes overlooked, The Rise And Fall of Legs Diamond is one of the better crime bios of the 1950s (released in 1960). Ray Danton is magnetic in the title role of a psychopath ...
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- Ray Danton
- Budd Boetticher
- United States Pictures
Rise And Fall Of Legs Diamond, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) He Didn't Use His Head Pacey and crisp opening from director Budd Boetticher, introducing Ray Danton in his signature performance in the title role, Warren Oates his tagalong brother, Karen Steele a fascinated dance instructor, in the loose bio-pic The Rise And Fall Of Legs Diamond, 1960.
Matt Moran. Dyan Cannon. ... Dixie (as Diane Cannon) Richard Gardner. ... Vince Coll. Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Don Anderson.
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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May 17, 2013 · The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond. By Richard Brody. May 17, 2013. A strange, cold, sordid movie about a strange, cold, sordid gangster. In this historical film noir about the Prohibition era ...