The Bootlegger - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

Returned from WW1 (where he served as a sniper in US Army), Jesse Hakerman has lost both parents by 1920 and is stuck with a farm in the midwest, heavily mortgaged and no Federal Aid packages for farmers.
1920 sees the Volstead Act come into force and the era of Prohibition starts.
Naively, Jesse thinks he can make booze and gets the nod from the town sheriff, Thomas 'Buck” Buckley that he'll turn a blind eye.
It's easy at first. There is enough trade in town and around for Jesse to make money to save the farm and even to be altruistic to needy causes. Then an Irish gangster, Sean O'Leary, in Chicago thinks this local source is the answer to his losses through hijacking and the trouble begins when Jesse doesn't want to supply. O'Leary's men underestimate the "farmboy" and violence is unleashed and Jesse decides to get proactive to eliminate the threat, requiring going to Chicago and mixing with mobsters. Tough times, tough men.

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