- HD 1080
- Runtime: 101m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Budd Boetticher
- Stars: Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart, Jesse White, Simon Oakland
- keywords: new york city, prohibition era, gangster, mafia, 1920s
- Production_studio: United States Pictures
- Slogan: The Wildest Mobster of the Roaring Twenties!
- The The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond is featured in the top rankings of 1960
- #34 in Top Crime Movies of 1960
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.
