The Doorway to Hell

  • Crime
  • Drama
10/18/1930
78
NR

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A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.

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  • Geronimo1967

    With Chicago effectively a lawless city controlled by warring gangsters fighting over their turf and their lucrative prohibition income, opportunistic Louie (Lew Ayres) sees an opportunity to centralise things. A meeting, a few machine guns, and some sheer brass neck soon sees him running the racketeers and presiding over an unusually peaceful city. Then he marries his sweetheart Doris (Dorothy Matthews) and has something of an epiphany. He wants to hand over the reins to his deputy Mileaway (James Cagney) and retire to the panhandle for some well earned rest and recuperation. Without him holding down the truce, things at home start to unravel but can he stay away and enjoy his new life, or will he be unable to resist the magnetic attractio...

    October 3, 2025

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