Hollywood’s Notorious Banned Gangster Movie Looks Ridiculously Tame 90 Years Later

Gangster movies are often controversial due to their content, with some of them even being banned – and one banned gangster movie in particular looks way too tame nine decades after its release. The gangster subgenre is home to some of the most successful movies in film history, such as Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, but this branch of the crime genre has gone through various issues for decades. Although filmmakers are now more free to address once-controversial topics in their gangster movies, there were some films that had to battle censorship many years ago.