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Four Deuces, The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Bombs and bullets fly when two mobs feud in the wild era of prohibition. Operating out of a swank speak-easy named The Four, boss Vic Morono clashes with his arch rival, Chic Hamilton, who runs his own dive across town. Covering the mob war, newspaper reporter Russ Timmons manages to taIk his way into Morono's inner sanctum, promising to write a fIattering biography of him. When Timmons meets and faIIs in love with Morono's moIl, alI bets are off. Passion, pride and power colIide in a final bIoody battle for controI of the criminaI underworId.
Award-winning actor Jack Palance is larger than life as the sadistic and vengefuI gangster who watches his whole house-of-cards empire collapse in an orgy of betrayaI. Though best known in his Iater years for his Oscar-wining performance in the 1991 hit comedy, City SIickers, Palance earned early fame for his roIes in Panic in the Streets (1950), Man in The Attic (1953) and Shane (1953). ln 1956, he won an Emmy for his powerfuI portrayal of an aging boxer in Rod SerIing's TV masterpiece, Requiem for a Heavyweight. BeautifuI co-star Carol LynIey first drew the pubIic's attention for her portrayal of Allison in Return to Peyton Place (1961) and later for playing the Iead in HarIow (1965). She aIso appeared in the hit fiIm The Poseidon Adventure in 1972. |
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