Prohibition in the 1920s did much to inspire the enduring images of gangsters as we know them now. Between 1931 and 1932, ...

And a 1906 film called The Black Hand is considered by historians to be the oldest surviving gangster film. Gangster movies became popular after the advent of sound cinema, though the reasons were ...

The movie was so successful that Hollywood made more than 50 gangster movies the following year. The most violent movie of 1932 was Scarface , starring Paul Muni as Tony Camonte, a Chicago mobster.