Sentences with phrase «run speakeasies»

«Live by Night» is set in the roaring «20s when Prohibition hasn't stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster - run speakeasies.

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Once there, he re-encounters three members of his working - class brood: his father, Bill Hunter (Gerard McSorley); his younger brother, the service station attendant Jim (Daniel Mays); and Jim's expectant wife Caroline (Eva Birthistle), who runs the local speakeasy.

At first, the setting is prohibition - era Chicago (right as the Great Depression was beginning to sink in), where Joe and Jerry play as part of a small jazz band in a speakeasy run out of a funeral parlor by criminal kingpin Spats Colombo (George Raft).

Thanks to countless pop culture references and notorious 20th - century organized crime figures such as Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel and John Gotti, the concept of organized crime calls to mind images of bygone eras when speakeasies, Mob - run casinos and infamous M...

From the urban landscape, there is a run of early twentieth century prints depicting the ever - changing New York City, featuring several of Martin Lewis's best - known prints, including Relics (Speakeasy Corner), drypoint, 1928 ($ 30,000 to $ 50,000).

She couldn't necessarily vote, but was running an office full of gunners who could send your ass to the Pen for operating a speakeasy.

A speakeasy, a brothel, a modest vacation destination, and finally - a Catholic priest - run retreat for the Latvian community.