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70% Critic Match
Pretty Boy Floyd
“The kiss of death - where the underworld become the judges and a hoodlum winds up dead!”
7.0 / 10• 1960• 1h 36m•NR• English
DramaCrime
Storyline
Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that past. With nowhere to go but back home in Oklahoma he gets news that his father's been murdered and the local sheriff lets the killer off with a self-defense plea. Bent on revenge, Floyd does what he must which leads him down a dark road littered with robbing banks and loose women. Floyd's final days are anything BUT pretty!
Cast & Crew
John Ericson
Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
Lead
Barry Newman
Al Riccardo
RF
Roy Fant
Jed Watkins
Joan Harvey
Lil Courtney
CY
Carl York
Curly Winwell
Jason Evers
Sheriff Blackie Faulkner
EA
Effie Afton
Ma Parks
SS
Shirley Smith
Ann Courtney
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Herbert J. Leder's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Pretty Boy Floyd is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
