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Joe MacBeth is a 1955 British–American crime drama, directed by Ken Hughes and starring Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman and Bonar Colleano. It is a modern retelling of Shakespeare 's Macbeth , set in a 1930s American criminal underworld.
Joe MacBeth: Directed by Ken Hughes. With Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman, Bonar Colleano, Grégoire Aslan. Shakespeare (more-or-less) in modern gangster setting. Lily MacBeth pushes her husband Joe to rub out the reigning crime boss and become the new "kingpin" himself.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Ken Hughes
- 1956-04
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Aug 30, 2011 · Synopsis. After gunshots ring out at Tommy's, a notorious gangland nightspot, Tommy, the second in command in gangster Duce's crime empire, slumps over dead. Moments later, Joe MacBeth, Duce's trigger man, reports to Duce that he has killed Tommy as ordered.
- Ken Hughes, Phil Shipway
- Paul Douglas
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Synopsis. Shakespeare (more-or-less) in modern gangster setting. Lily MacBeth pushes her husband Joe to rub out the reigning crime boss and become the new “kingpin” himself. Success is short- lived, however, as he confronts Lennie, a mobster whose father and wife are Joe’s murder victims.
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Goaded by his power-hungry wife Lily (Ruth Roman), gangster Macbeth (Paul Douglas) murders grotesque mob boss Big Dutch (Harry Green), which sets him on a path of subsequent killings and intensifying guilt.
