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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Little Caesar(1930): A small-time hood rises to criminal fame and power. Smart money(1931): A small-town barber who fancies himself a big-time gambler travels to the big city in the company of his younger brother, and they are soon running their own high-stakes racket .SMART MONEY (1931) In their only screen teaming, Little Caesar's Edward G. Robinson leads the way and The Public Enemy's James Cagney rides shotgun in this brisk tale of barbers who...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie...
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Crunchyroll
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Prohibition, a lawless era where bootleggers prosper and mobsters prowl. Avilio Bruno has grown up alone in this murky world after the Vanetti's murdered his family. One day, he receives a letter that holds the key to revenge. Befriending the don's son, Nero, Avilio works his way through the Vanetti family and sets his vengeance in motion.
Publisher
Crunchyroll
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Prohibition, a lawless era where bootleggers prosper and mobsters prowl. Avilio Bruno has grown up alone in this murky world after the Vanetti's murdered his family. One day, he receives a letter that holds the key to revenge. Befriending the don's son, Nero, Avilio works his way through the Vanetti family and sets his vengeance in motion.
5) Blind tiger
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble...and lands in more than he bargained for. On the day he arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of her abduction, and worse. Standing between him and exoneration are a corrupt mayor, a crooked sheriff, a notorious cathouse madam, a sly bootlegger, feuding moonshiners...
6) Among wolves
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Villains afoul of two religious ladies are forced to go on the run and find themselves under the wing of two morally gray outlaws who ferry them to safety.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Public enemy (1931): A story of two brothers, one an honorable war veteran, the other a high-class gangster that sold alcohol during the prohibition. Roaring twenties(1939): Three WWI buddies work for a bootlegging racket after returning to New York City.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It's the roaring twenties and prohibition hasn't stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies. The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough nerve, and Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police superintendent, long ago turned his back on his strict upbringing for the spoils of being an outlaw. But even among criminals there are rules, and Joe breaks a big one: crossing a powerful mob boss...
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"Sabina Mancari never questioned her life as the daughter of Chicago's leading mob boss until bullets tear apart her world and the man she thought she loved turns out to be an undercover Prohibition agent. Ambushes, bribes, murder prostitution -- all her life, her father sheltered her from his crimes, but now she can no longer turn away from the truth. Maybe Lorenzo, the fiancé who paid barely paid her any attention in the last two years, has the...
12) The Bowman boys
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Series
The Sultan saga volume 1
Publisher
[Createspace]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1923 and Prohibition is the law of the land. Levi Bowman and his four sons struggle to survive and thrive in the remote woods and mountains outpost of Sultan, Washington. It is a time and place governed by the gun and the fist, where family comes first, rules are meant to be broken, and enemies put down."--Publisher's desciption.
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"Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day's work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle. A Brief History of Drunkenness traces humankind's love affair...
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"New York, 1924. Vivian Kelly's days are filled with drudgery, from the tenement lodging she shares with her sister to the dress shop where she sews for hours every day. But at night, she escapes to The Nightingale, an underground dance hall where illegal liquor flows and the band plays the Charleston with reckless excitement. With a bartender willing to slip her a free glass of champagne and friends who know the owner, Vivian can lose herself in...
Author
Series
The Sultan saga volume 2
Publisher
[Createspace]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Bowman family is back and fighting to survive an enemy more dangerous and deadly than any they have faced before. Picking up a few years after the first book in the Sultan Saga series, the Bowmans are thriving in the little outpost town of Sultan, Washington. Selling whiskey in the 1920's during the time of Prohibition has proven to be increasingly profitable for family patriarch Levi Bowman and his four sons but as friends and neighbors are suddenly...
Publisher
KSPS
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
New Year's Eve, 1915, was a celebration like no other in Washington State history. This would be the "last call" before prohibition was enacted in Washington, four years before national prohibition. At the stroke of midnight, every saloon in the state would be out of business; and millions of dollars of revenue from the liquor industry would cease to exsist. This is the untold story of a rough-and-tumble era in the life of a raw and still coming-of-age...
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"The rumor went through the Nightingale like a flood, quietly rising, whispers hovering on lips in pockets of silence. Life as a working-class girl in Prohibition-era New York isn't safe or easy. But Vivian Kelly has a new job at the Nightingale, an underground speakeasy where the jazz is hot and the employees look out for each other in a world that doesn't care about them. Things are finally looking up for her and her sister Florence... until the...
18) The stills
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English
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"With compassion and insight, Jess Montgomery weaves a gripping mystery and portrait of community in The Stills, the powerful third novel in the Kinship series. Ohio, 1927: Moonshining is a way of life in rural Bronwyn County, and even the otherwise upstanding Sheriff Lily Ross has been known to turn a blind eye when it comes to stills in the area. But when thirteen-year-old Zebediah Harkins almost dies after drinking tainted moonshine, Lily knows...
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