I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Gangster Story is kind of a flat story. The story itself is decent but I don't think it was carried out very well. Not to mention some parts of the story were just pointless. It was a good story at first but then I thought it got lost. Jack Martin (Walter Matthau) is a bank robber on the run from the law. Using skills of deception and multiple identities, he manages to pull off a bank heist. When he meets librarian Carol Logan (Carol Grace) he moves in with her, and decides to stay in town. But local crime boss Earl Dawson (Bruce MacFarlane) hears that somebody pulled off a heist in "his territory" he attempts to enlist Martin into his crime family. After that the story just kind off runs around. It's a coherent story, but it's lazy and poorly done. The romance between Martin and Carol is spontaneous and it's not really interesting either. I've heard that this film is based on a true story. Weather or this is actually true is unknown to me. What I do know is that Gangster Story is a lazy and boring film noir.

This is a hilarious drive in ultra low budget flick starring and directed by our favorite actor, whether the film sucks or not....Walter Mathieu! Lets face it, we love watching a film with Walter in it, and even the ones that totally suck, we still had a mostly good time. This one is like if you crossed a Coleman Francis, "Night Train To Muno Fine" with Walter's later films Charlie Varik and A New Leaf. He was playing his part and we are laughing at it especially now that we see the origins. This is a mostly dubbed dialog film and it's, so, so, low budget. Recommended for any Mathieu fan really. Awesome cheesiness. Vic Tayback is also in this with a dubbed voice, this film is just that cheesy. This film is so bad that it may have been a low budget parody, but I'm going to guess it has comic elements only to enhance a story that was thought to be dramatic. Kind of a high brow, "Red Zone Cuba" if you will. Coleman Francis may have been inspired by this work of art, I know I was.

Never viewed this film until I noticed it showing on TCM and found out that Walter Matthau directed and also acted in this film as Jack Martin. Jack Martin is a crook who is very calm, bold and deadly with a gun in his hand. He pulls off a bank robbery and the cops are closing in on him and he decides to go into a Public Library and meets a blonde librarian named Carol Grace, (Carol Logan) while he is dodging the police, he hits on Carol Logan and she becomes very interested in him immediately, even when Jack tells her he is bank robber. There are many hold ups and plenty of cops are killed and Jack still takes on more hold ups for millions of dollars. This is not a bad film for 1960 and is great to see some of the old 1960 automobiles being driven around. Enjoy

In the early days of television, there was an influx of great actors and actresses who decided to test the waters of this new media. We had the likes of Dick Powell, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan, Loretta Young, for example. Not so with Walter Mathau. This great actor actually originated from the early days of television and then migrated to the movies. Mathau did countless guest appearances on many television programs before getting his big break in such films as "The Kentuckian" (1955) and "A Face in the Crowd" (1957). This film was only one of a few that he had under his belt until he made "The Gangster Story" in 1960. Incidentally, this was his directing debut also, so between appearing in television and movies, this gave him the rare chance to show his talent in this aspect. Unfortunately for Mathau, this was his only attempt to direct a movie. The quality of this film in it's cinematography, the acting and the dialogue is way below standard and this probably was the reason why he never directed another film.This is, at best, a fair film that is a potential cult classic. The plot is transparent and predictable. The supporting acting is stilted and awkward. His real wife, Carol Grace, plays the typical "bimbo" role of standing-by-her-man-no-matter-how-bad-he-is (*sigh*) in this cheesy docudrama. However, because it is an early Mathau vehicle, it is an interesting conversation piece for those who admire his talents. Not an academy award winner, but an interesting chestnut from a long and illustrious career.