The Purple Gang: Living or Dead?

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By Charles Bottage

Updated 18 March 2023

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Artist	Trailer screenshot Licencing information :https://web.archive.org/web/20080321033709/http://www.sabucat.com/?pg=copyright and http://www.creativeclearance.com/guidelines.html#D2
Credit	The Bad and the Beautiful trailer
License	pd
Desc	Cropped screenshot of Barry Sullivan from the trailer for the film The Bad and the Beautiful.
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Usage	Public domain
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1960 film directed by Frank McDonald

The Purple Gang

Released	5 January 1960 (63 years, 2 months ago)

Director	Frank McDonald
Genre	crime film
Composer	Paul Dunlap
Country of origin	United States of America
Producer	Lindsley Parsons

About The Purple Gang

The Purple Gang is a 1960 American period crime film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Barry Sullivan, Robert Blake and Jody Lawrance. It portrays the activities of The Purple Gang bootlegging organization in Detroit in the 1920s