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Gangster Story (1959)

• Director
  • Walter Matthau
• Writers
  • Richard Grey(story)
  • V.J. Rheims(story)
  • Paul Purcell
• Stars
  • Walter Matthau
  • Carol Grace
  • Bruce MacFarlane

  Actor Walter Matthau directed his first and only feature film with the black-and-white crime drama Gangster Story. In an unusual noncomedic role, Matthau plays Jack Martin, a local gangster who wants to run his own crime syndicate in the neighborhood run by Earl Dawson (Bruce McFarlan). They eventually team up and plan a heist. Carol Grace plays the reform-minded girlfriend.