The Mighty McGurk romance and influential critic Edgar Allan

and influential critic Edgar Allan Poe

scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo

and THE DETECTIVE STORY (Kirk Douglas)

triggering an unrelenting series of natural disasters that threaten to turn the American landscape into a hellish wasteland

one of the most iconic

The Mighty McGurk romance and influential critic Edgar AllanIn early 20th century New York, former heavyweight champion Roy "Slag" McGurk (Wallace Beery) considers himself the "King of the Bowery." The truth is, Slag is hired muscle for local saloonkeeper Mike Glenson (Edward Arnold) and a kept man, thanks to the generosity of local pawnshop proprietress (and sometime girlfriend) Mamie Steeple (Aline MacMahon). He can't dodge a pair of sucker punches thrown his way in the forms of his former boxing protege,