They were most famous for bootlegging, but also managed gambling, prostitution, and abortion. While outlaws operated independently of mobsters, they did rely on organized gangs for the tools of ...

American Gangster shows some of Frank Lucas ... Tom Hardy plays two famous gangsters at once in Legend, often sharing the screen with himself alone. Hardy is known for crime movies and bold ...

During the Great Depression, gangsters became unlikely heroes. As film historian Jeanine Basinger notes in this clip, "The gangster figure represented somebody at the bottom of the social scale ...