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Black Hand (1950) is a violent Italian-American historical mobster and protection racket revenge social issue thriller film noir, packed with cliché and atmosphere, and which partakes of the Italian American immigrant experience, with no-holds-barred villainous violence and later nineteenth century criminal moeurs.
Starring Gene Kelly as a hero for the good of the new country, and an immigrant who much in the style of the later Michael Corleone, vows a vengeance on the Black Hand gang that killed his father.
The historical aspect is accurate as it goes, and most notably there are scenes of pubic speaking during which the existence of the Black Hand is denied completely, something that was common to the phenomenon.
