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The Gangsters of New York
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Four reels
Directed by James Kirkwood

Cast: Henry B. Walthall [?] [‘Porkey’ Dugan or Biff Hogan]?, Consuelo Bailey [Cora Drew], Jack Dillon (John T. Dillon) [?] [Biff Dugan or Tom Hogan]?, Ralph Lewis [?] [Spike Golden or Hennessey]?, C. Lambert [?] [Henry Davis or Kerrigan]?, P. Riley [?] [Billy Drew or Jack Drew]?, Jack Pickford [Spot, the spy], Alice Horine [?] [Jessie Dugan or Jessie Hogan]?, Master Ogden Child [?] [Jimmie Dugan or Jimmie Hogan]?, Fred Herzog [?] [District Attorney Hennessy or Spike McGee]?, Miss B. Craig [Mrs. Murphy]

Reliance Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by Continental Feature Film Corporation. / Scenario by James Kirkwood and Anita Loos. Production supervised by D.W. Griffith. / Released February 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Crime.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Criminals: Gangs, Gangsters - Reformation - Reformers - Tenements - USA: New York: New York

Listing updated: 21 May 2012.

References: Barry-Griffith p. 44; Parish-Gangster p. 160; Tarbox-Lost p. 180 : Website-AFI.