Pretty Boy Floyd

Pretty Boy Floyd

The kiss of death - where the underworld become the judges and a hoodlum winds up dead!

1960 · 96 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama, Crime

Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that past. With nowhere to go but back home in Oklahoma he gets news that his father's been murdered and the local sheriff lets the killer off with a self-defense plea. Bent on revenge, Floyd does what he must which leads him down a dark road littered with robbing banks and loose women. Floyd's final days are anything BUT pretty!

Directed by Herbert J. Leder · Written by Herbert J. Leder

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Cast

John Ericson Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
Barry Newman Al Riccardo
Roy Fant Jed Watkins
Joan Harvey Lil Courtney
Carl York Curly Winwell
Jason Evers Sheriff Blackie Faulkner
Effie Afton Ma Parks
Shirley Smith Ann Courtney
Casey Peyson Gail Crouder
Peter Falk Shorty Walters
Al Lewis Machine Gun Manny
Leo Bloom Ed Courtney

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