Guerra di gangster

The real Purple Gang was made up of mostly Jewish members. The script of this film gave the members non-Jewish names. It was the dominate criminal organization in Detroit from about 1927 until 1932 when the gang self-destructed - with help from the Italian mob.

[Prologue] This picture is based on information from official files which revealed the shocking story of the wave of juvenile delinquency which spawned Detroit's Purple Gang. Incredible as it may seem, this youthful rat-pack of terrorists dominated the city's underworld for more than a decade during the prohibition era.