On this day in movie history - The Gangster (1949):

The Gangster

a.k.a. Low Company,

directed by Gordon Wiles,

written by Daniel Fuchs,

based on the novel Low Company by Daniel Fuchs,

released in the United States on November 25, 1949.

Music by Louis Gruenberg.

Cast:

Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring, Akim Tamiroff, Harry/Henry Morgan, John Ireland, Sheldon Leonard, Fifi D'Orsay, Virginia Christine, Elisha Cook Jr., Ted Hecht/Theodore Hecht, Leif Erickson, Charles McGraw, John Kellogg, Helen Alexander, Ruth Allen, Murray Alper, Andy Andrews, Phil Arnold, Phyllis Ayres, Griff Barnett, Marie Blake, Leonard Bremen, Irene Brooks, Jean Calhoun, Dolores Castle, Gene Collins, Mikel Conrad, Clancy Cooper, Jeff Corey, Delese Daudet, Jimmy Dime, Rex Downing, Jay Eaton, Pat Emery, Franklyn Farnum, Michael Gaddis, Parker Gee, Greta Granstedt, Billy Gray, Don Haggerty, Jean Harrison, Bill Kennedy, Mike Lally, Edwin Maxwell, Sid Melton, Norma Jean Nilsson, Barry Norton, Marguerita Padula, Ralph Reed, Bob Reeves, Tommy Reilly, Jack Reynolds, Dewey Robinson, Jeffrey Sayre, Maxine Semon, Sammy Shack, Larry Steers, Larry Thompson, Anita Turner, Michael Vallon, Jane Weeks, Peter Whitney, Shelley Winters.

Recommended reading:

The Brooklyn Novels:

Summer in Williamsburg, Homage to Blenholt, Low Company

By Daniel Fuchs.

Introduction by Jonathan Lethem.

The novel Low Company was filmed as The Gangster a.k.a. Low Company (1949), directed by Gordon Wiles.

Published 2007.

Published by Black Sparrow Press.

ISBN 13: 9781574232103

ISBN 10: 157423210X

ASIN: 157423210X

Description:

Three classic novels in one volume: Summer in Williamsburg (1934), Homage to Blenholt (1936), and Low Company (1937).

Fuchs wrote, “I devoted myself simply to the tenement: the life in the hallways, the commotion at the dumbwaiters, the assortment of characters in the building, their strivings and preoccupations, their troubles.” These novels are as alive today as the day they were first printed, as exuberant. There are few novelists in America today who possess Fuchs’s talent, his energy, his sense of life.