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Mob film
Mob films〔(Crime and Gangster Films )〕 — or gangster films — are a subgenre of crime films dealing with organized crime, often specifically with the Mafia. Especially in early mob films, there is considerable overlap with ''film noir''.
==History==
The American movie ''The Black Hand'' (1906) is thought to be the earliest surviving gangster film.〔In this 11 minute work, two members of a gang write a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding money, or else they will harm his family and his shop. (See Treasures from American Film Archives)〕 In 1912, D. W. Griffith directed ''The Musketeers of Pig Alley'', a short drama film about crime on the streets of New York City (filmed, however, at Fort Lee, New Jersey) rumored to have included real gangsters as extras. Though mob films had their roots in such silent films, the genre in its most durable form was defined in the early 1930s. It owed its innovations to the social and economic instability occasioned by the Great Depression, which galvanized the organized crime subculture in the United States.〔Ina Rae Hark, ''American Cinema of the 1930s'' (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2007), p. 12.〕 The failure of honest hard work and careful investment to ensure financial security led to the circumstances reflected in the explosion of mob films in Hollywood〔Hark, p. 12.〕 and to their immense popularity in a society disillusioned with the American way of life.
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