The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

Name: The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Director: Budd Boetticher
Genre: Crime, History
Released: 1960-02-03
Duration: 1 h 41 min
Rating: 6.077
Cast: Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart, Jesse White, Simon Oakland

Directed by Budd Boetticher

Crime

History

19601h 41m6.1

Overview

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.