Mad Dog Coll (1961)

Directors

Burt Balaban

Cast

Kay Doubleday, Brooke Hayward, John Davis Chandler, Neil Nephew, Jerry Orbach, Telly Savalas, Vincent Gardenia

The story

The film is a heavily fictionalized treatment of the life of Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, who was born in 1908 in County Donegal, Ireland. In the film, Coll is depicted as growing up with an abusive father who beats and ridicules him (the film opens with him machine-gunning his father's gravestone), and started a street gang at a very young age, which led in turn to organized crime. He is portrayed as a psychopath, incapable of fear or compassion, who is never more happy than when he is recklessly shooting people with his tommy gun or feuding with the fellow mobster Dutch Schultz over whisky hijacking.

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