The American Gangster The American Gangster The American Gangster is a 1992 American crime documentary film directed by Ben Burtt and written and produced by Ray Herbeck Jr. The documentary is narrated by Dennis Farina and explores the lives of America's gangsters like Pretty Boy Floyd, John Dillinger, Al Capone, and Bugsy Siegel. It was directly released on VHS in 1992 and later released as part of a DVD box set in 2006. "The American Gangster" is a documentary that chronicles the formation of the first generation of American gangsters. The documentary explores the illegal businesses involving gambling, prostitution, and defiance of prohibition
Charles Murray Floyd Charles Murray Floyd Charles Murray Floyd, OBE, FLS, FRICS (12 September 1905 – 27 June 1971) was an English businessman, surveyor, land agent and local politician. Charles Murray Floyd was born on 12 September 1905, the third and youngest son of Captain Sir Henry Robert Peel Floyd, 4th Baronet (1855–1915), a Royal Naval officer who fought in the East African Campaign of 1890 and the Second Boer War, and his wife Edith Anne Kincaid-Smith (died 1955), daughter of Major John Kincaid-Smith, of Polmont House, Stirlingshire, Scotland; the elder sons were Brigadier Sir Henry Robert Kincaid Floyd, who became 5th Baronet,