Baby Face Nelson
Baby Face Nelson is a 1957 American film noir crime film based on the real-life 1930s gangster, directed by Don Siegel, co-written by Daniel Mainwaring—who also wrote the screenplay for Siegel's 1956 sci-fi thriller Invasion of the Body Snatchers—and starring Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke, Leo Gordon as Dillinger, Anthony Caruso, Jack Elam, John Hoyt and Elisha Cook Jr.
Plot
Chicago mob boss Rocca manages to get Lester Gillis sprung from jail in Joliet. His motive is to have Gillis kill a labor organizer, but Gillis refuses, preferring to work with Rocca's gang on robberies instead. He meets mob moll Sue Nelson and they start a relationship. He is relaxing, alone in his hotel room, when cops burst in, finding a gun Rocca has planted to frame Gillis for the labor leader's murder. Gillis vows revenge, escapes from the cops with Sue's help, then guns down Rocca and two henchmen. He adopts Sue's surname as an alias.
More details
| author | Daniel Mainwaring |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Chicago |
| director | Don Siegel |
| editor | Leon Barsha |
| genre | crime drama thriller |
| keywords | baby face nelson hotel room john dillinger joliet joliet prison kill labor organizer mob boss multiple murder public enemy shooting spree wanted man |
| musicBy | Van Alexander |
| producer | Al Zimbalist |
| productionCompany | Fryman Enterprises |
| publisher | United Artists |
| theme | biographical drama film noir |