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...Gangster is the autobiography of a gangster adapted from a serial in the Saturday Evening Post. Beer-drinking as a baby, sneak-thieving as a schoolboy, pool-playing, loafing, robbing, killing???such things, say numerous subtitles, land young men in the jug. In spite of the monotonous effort of the script to point a moral. Director Raoul Walsh has made this rather gentle document of crook life effective by little niceties?the ward-heeler spitting in the hand, extended for a friendly shake, of the gangster who taught his son bad ways; the prisoner in the visiting room who wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 5, 1928 | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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