SHOUT! FACTORY Lawless Years: The Complete Series [DVD] [1959] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

The Lawless Years is Cadillac driving, booze fueled, tommy gun blazing stories of cops and gangsters in prohibition era New York. New York City Police Detective Sergeant Barney Ruditsky was the technical adviser of the series, which was loosely based on his exploits as the head of the famed New York Gangster Squad that made over 5,000 arrests. This squad took into custody virtually every prominent criminal operating in the city in the 1920s and the 1930s. This authentic docudrama starring James Gregory Barney Miller, The Manchurian Candidate and directed by Allen H. Miner Perry Mason, M-Squad, Wagon Train will hit you with the compelling realism of life as a 1920s bootlegger and have you riding shotgun with some of the bravest police officers to work the streets of The Big Apple. Featured guest stars include Vic Morrow, Clu Gulager, Robert Fuller, Burt Reynolds, Harry Dean Stanton, Martin Landau, Warren Oates and many more! Includes all 45 episodes which originally aired from 1959-1961. B&W