Portrait Of A Mobster

This wholly fictitious screen biography of New York gangster "Dutch Schultz" provides little entertainment or insight during its overlong running time. Morrow stars as a small-time punk who, along with his pal, Alden, joins the Legs Diamond gang. Diamond (Danton) sends his new recruits on several missions but begins to worry when they prove to be somewhat overzealous. The powerful mobster's suspicions are confirmed when Morrow kills a bootlegger without orders to do so. Morrow and Alden break with Danton's mob and begin their own gang. Soon after, Morrow learns that the man he murdered is survived by an attractive daughter, Parrish, and the morally corrupt gangster...