A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang..


Unveiling the Shadowy Ballet of Prohibition-Era Crime Step back into the roaring, yet clandestine, 1920s, a decade synonymous with jazz, flappers, and the pervasive, often violent, shadow of Prohibition. It's a period that film has frequently romanticized, yet few pictures capture its raw, desperate underbelly...

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" Unveiling the Shadowy Ballet of Prohibition-Era Crime Step back into the roaring, yet clandestine, 1920s, a decade synonymous with jazz, flappers, and the pervasive, often violent, shadow of Prohibition. It's a period that film has frequently romanticized, yet few pictures capture its raw, desperate underbelly with the visceral authenticity of 1926's Those Who Dance. Directed by Lambert Hillyer, this silent crime drama plunges viewers headfirst into a world where illicit alcohol fuels f..."
Lambert Hillyer, George Kibbe Turner, Arthur F. Statter
United States


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