Gangster Story

The first and only film directed by legendary Academy-Award Winning Hollywood icon Walter Matthau (The Odd Couple, Grumpy Old Men), Gangster Story tells the violent and gripping true story of Jack Martin, one of Americas most dastardly criminals. Matthau himself pulls double duty playing Martin, a gangster and cop killer hiding from the law in small, sleepy town. Running low on money, Martin engineers a bank robbery that lands him fistfuls of loot-only now, in addition to having the cops and the FBI on his tail, he has to face the wrath of a local crime boss, offended that Martin would dare pull off such a heist in his town without cutting him in on it. Thrilling and suspenseful, Gangster Story is now best known as one of the first on-screen