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IRISH-AMERICAN CRIME FILMS

THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (1912)
This very early D.W. Griffith film may or may not be about Irish gangsters, but it looks forward to every Irish gangster film to follow.

UNDERWORLD (1927)
15 years after Pigs Alley, the cinematic gangster had grown up, developed a rough glamor, and was ready for mayhem.
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