GANGSTER STORY-1960-This very cheap crime drama is about an escaped bank robber and cop killer named Frank Martin (Walter Matthau who also directed). After he stages a strange bank hold up (partially involving making 3 policemen think he’s shooting a movie!) he meets a librarian (Carol Logan, the future Mrs. Matthau) and goes to work at her home. Meanwhile a mob boss wants Martin to work for him and sends some of “his boys” to get him. One of the mob thugs is played by Gerrett Wallberg who later changed his name to Gary Walberg and became a familiar TV actor. Another familiar TV actor Vic Tayback has an un-billed role as a cop in a funny scene involving a fat guy and the stealing of a safe. Everything in this movie is fairly improbable and moves pretty fast. Matthau would win a Tony award the following year and an Oscar in 1966 (for THE FORTUNE COOKIE) and become a star but he would never direct again. Radley Metzger was the editor.
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