Machine-Gun Kelly

IMDb link: 0051887
IMDb rating: 6.1 (2,284 votes)
Genres: Action, Crime, Biography, Film-Noir
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot, Morey Amsterdam, Richard Devon and others

Release date: 1 May 1958
Release year: 1958
Runtime: 80 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: chicago illinois, depression, gangster, based on true story, 1930s, machine gun kelly character, prohibition era, reference to machine gun kelly, thompson sub machine gun, submachine gun

Plot:

In the 30's, George R. "Machine Gun" Kelly, Howard and Maize successfully robber a bank. George's nickname was given by his girlfriend Florence "Flo" Becker when she gave a Thompson to him and he became obsessed by the gun. George is also a superstitious man that fears death and related symbols. After a botched bank heist, George's partner Michael Fandango loses one arm in a car accident and Flo and George temporary move to the brothel of "Ma" Becker to use as a hideout. Now George and Flo plan the kidnapping of the nine-year-old girl of a wealthy man to raise money to travel abroad.

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