Director:
Robert Florey
Writers:
Jerome Cady (screenplay), Crane Wilbur (screenplay), and 1 more credit »
Release Date:
July 1944 (USA)
Cast (in credits order)
Preston Foster
... Roger Touhy
Victor McLaglen
... Herman 'Owl' Banghart
Lois Andrews
... Daisy, Touhy's secretary
Kent Taylor
... Police Capt. Steve Warren
Anthony Quinn
... George Carroll
William Post Jr.
... Joseph P. Sutton
Harry Morgan
... Thomas J. 'Smoke' Reardon (as Henry Morgan)
Matt Briggs
... Cameron
Moroni Olsen
... Riley
Reed Hadley
... FBI Agent Boyden
Trudy Marshall
... Gloria, Sutton's escort
John Archer
... FBI Agent Kerrigan
Frank Jenks
... Bernard 'Troubles' O'Connor
George E. Stone
... 'Ice Box' Hamilton
Charles Lang
... FBI Agent
Kane Richmond
... Mason
Joseph E. Ragen
... Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Murray Alper
... Ralph Burke (uncredited)
Jessie Arnold
... Wife (uncredited)
Warren Ashe
... Cop (uncredited)
Herbert Ashley
... Guard (uncredited)
Arthur Aylesworth
... Farmer (uncredited)
Jay Black
... Tenant (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
... Cop (uncredited)
Freddie Chapman
... Boy (uncredited)
Joseph Crehan
... Warden (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn
... Patrolman (uncredited)
Jim Farley
... Bailiff (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
... Court Clerk (uncredited)
Jack Gardner
... Reporter (uncredited)
Bud Geary
... Guard (uncredited)
Dwight Green
... Illinois governor (archive interview) (uncredited)
William Haade
... Truck Driver (uncredited)
William Halligan
... Capt. Bradley (uncredited)
John Harmon
... Lefty Rowden (uncredited)
Ralf Harolde
... Prisoner (uncredited)
George Holmes
... McNair (uncredited)
Selmer Jackson
... Principal Keeper (uncredited)
Thomas E. Jackson
... Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Cy Kendall
... Edward Latham (uncredited)
George Lessey
... Judge (uncredited)
Edmund MacDonald
... FBI Man - Finds Rent Ad in Trash (uncredited)
Horace McMahon
... Maxie Sharkey (uncredited)
Ivan Miller
... Guard (uncredited)
Pat O'Malley
... Police Orderly (uncredited)
Frank Orth
... Comic in Theater (uncredited)
William Pawley
... Prison Guard Briggs (uncredited)
Ralph Peters
... Clanahan (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
... Guard (uncredited)
Joey Ray
... Headwaiter (uncredited)
Addison Richards
... Priest (uncredited)
Dick Rich
... Guard (uncredited)
Roy Roberts
... Frank Williams - FBI Chief (uncredited)
William Ruhl
... Guard (uncredited)
Byron Shores
... Guard (uncredited)
Ferris Taylor
... Businessman (uncredited)
Billy Wayne
... (uncredited)
Charles C. Wilson
... Police Capt. After Hay Wagon Crash (uncredited)
Grant Withers
... FBI Man Detaining 'Ice Box'
Produced by
Arthur Gardner
.... assistant producer
Lee S. Marcus
.... producer (as Lee Marcus)
Original Music by
Hugo Friedhofer
(as Hugo W. Friedhofer)
Cinematography by
Glen MacWilliams
Film Editing by
Harry Reynolds
Art Direction by
James Basevi
Lewis H. Creber
(as Lewis Creber)
Set Decoration by
Thomas Little
Al Orenbach
Costume Design by
N'was McKenzie
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jasper Blystone
.... assistant director
Sound Department
Bernard Freericks
.... sound
Harry M. Leonard
.... sound
Special Effects by
Fred Sersen
.... special effects
Music Department
Emil Newman
.... musical director
David Buttolph
.... composer: additional music (uncredited)
Arthur Lange
.... composer: additional music (uncredited)
Arthur Morton
.... orchestrator (uncredited)
David Raksin
.... orchestrator (uncredited
A Top Cult Movie of the 1960s
20 July 2009 | by JohnHowardReid –
It's amazing to find a buzzword cult movie of the 1960s so utterly neglected 50 years later. True, "Roger Touhy, Gangster" was not numbered among the top ten, but it would certainly have made the 1960s' top thirty. Originally filmed as a 95-minute "A" feature and given a great publicity boost with an elaborate in-prison premiere in 1943, the movie came unstuck when the Hays Office demanded that 32 minutes be jettisoned. Although the events depicted all occurred in Touhy's real-life criminal career, the censors objected that this still gave no license to Fox to show such brutality on the screen. In order to placate the Hays Office, Fox made the cuts and then shot an extra two minutes with the Warden of Statesville Prison as an Epilogue. Even so, the movie still packs quite a punch in its shorn version. Director Robert Florey has handled his big-budget scenes with considerable flair. But while some scenes stagger the eye with their generous budget, other episodes (re-takes, perhaps?) have obviously been filmed on the cheap with some of the most incredible skimping ever perpetrated by a major studio.20 July 2009 | by JohnHowardReid –
The prison scenes were filmed at Stateville Prison in Joliet, Illinois, where the real Roger Touhy was incarcerated. The film was previewed at Stateville on July 12, 1943 with the Governor of Illinois (Dwight H. Green), and over 1,000 police officers and State's Attorneys from Chicago other Illinois communities in attendance. Touhy, who was suing 20th Century Fox (unsuccessfully it turned out) to prevent the films release, was not invited to the show, nor were any other prisoners, which was held in the prison chapel.