A man newly released from prison falls in love with a reclusive young movie star and finds himself in a duel with a vicious gangster.

The "victim", Mr. Ratchett (né Cassetti), discovered to have been, earlier in life, a vicious, unrepentant gangster with a trail of corpses behind him, had later changed his identity.

In chronicling the rise and fall of a vicious gangster who abuses everyone around him, including his wife, the film depicts murder and maiming of people.

In the fall of 1992, federal prosecutors say, a vicious Chinese gangster and two Vietnamese henchmen launched a small boat off the coast of Boston.

The FBI were clear that the Hump was a violent and vicious gangster but one who always preferred to use his brain rather than the machine gun.

St.-Germain had reminded him of the most vicious American gangsters from the thirties.

The plump, balding actor was equally at home in comic and dramatic roles, portraying vicious gangsters, bumbling bourgeois, jilted lovers and lascivious innkeepers.

He is seriously addicted to gambling, and is heavily in debt to a vicious gangster (the Usurer).

A high price to be sure, but it bought credible testimony from Mr. Gravano that helped the jury convict a vicious gangster after only two days of deliberations.

He then reminds Tonny that he owes him money, but has chosen to give him more time out of respect for Tonny's father, the Duke, a vicious gangster.