Two Gun Crowley Story Reflected in the Movie,White Heat, with Jame Cagney

Francis Two Gun Crowley, not only had bad people skill but he served as the inspiration for the movie "White Heat" starring James Cagney. Mr. Cagney plays the character Cody Jarret and this helped launch his career as an actor.

Here is what Mark Gado had to say.

This was the final heart-pounding scene of one of the most exciting and memorable gangster films ever made, White Heat (1949), directed by Raoul Walsh. Cagneys portrayal of a mother-fixated psychotic killer remains one of the screens most vivid roles and was frequently imitated in the decades to come. But though Cody Jarrett and the script in White Heat were fiction, not many people are aware that the story was partly based on a true incident.

In the spring of 1931, a furious gun battle took place on New York Citys Upper West Side. The incident involved hundreds of cops, dozens of machine guns, tear gas, grenades and a teenage killer who was consumed by an intense hatred of police. As many as 15,000 spectators watched the clash in which hundreds of bullets were fired into a fifth floor apartment while the barricaded suspect screamed out an open window: Youll never take me alive coppers! Come and get me! His name was Francis Two-Gun Crowley, and this stunning Wild West shootout became known as the Siege of 90th Street.

Francis Crowley

He infuriated the police when he repeatedly shot his way out of trouble, and many officers wanted to put a bullet in his head. Crowley was a pint-sized dynamo, standing just over 5 feet tall and weighing only 110 lbs. Warden Lewis Lawes of Sing Sing prison said in 1932 that Crowleys clear complexion and general appearance would have marked him as a choir boy. But like a runaway train, Crowley created havoc wherever he went. Beginning as a car thief, quickly graduating to bank robbery, cop-killing, murder and more, he bought a one-way ticket to hell during a furious crime spree that landed him in the electric chair at the age of 19.

This was written by By Mark Gado Taken from a piece on trutv
Live Fast, Die Young http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/mass/francis_crowley/1.html

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I guess the moral of the story is if you have really bad people skilla, also called Parrot People Skills, then you could die really young and they will make a movie about you. Right? Or you could figure out how to get along with people.