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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
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 .
- Leon Chooluck, Milton Sperling
Synopsis. 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.
- 1960
- George Taylor
- Budd Boetticher
- 10
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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.
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewel thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from other thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and illicit drug operations.
- Budd Boetticher
- Not Rated
- Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart
Made in 1960 on the model of the classic late 1920s and early 1930s gangster film, Budd Boetticher's The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond fully embraces the long-gone cinematic world of rootless, audacious young men who dreams of ruling the world, with victory inevitably falling to the one as willing to destroy his friends as his enemies.
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 ...
