The Lawless Years - Four the Hard Way - Season One E 13 - 1959
The game is at 22 West 43rd in Murray Hill in the heart of Manhattan – it's a fine old building with a rooftop deck that perfect for throwing guys off of. The spacious structure has a little news-stand on the ground floor run by Benny. If you're in on the action, Benny will point you to a telephone booth in the corner. If you go into the booth and push on the back wall, it will open up to a huge room with the Big Apple's finest illegal gaming action. You can get in – but sometimes getting' out 'ain't' so easy.
'Four the Hard Way' – besides being the title of this episode – is the toughest way to roll a four in 'Craps'. It means you have to throw a pair of twos, in order to make the four. If you toss a one and a three, it's no good! You gots to get 'Four the Hard Way' – a pair of deuces!
Another good episode of the little known series from the Roaring 20s (the ones from the 1900s, not the 2020s) come to life again in “The Lawless Years”. Gravel voiced James Gregory (Detective Frank Luger in the 1975 to 82 Barney Miller series) stars as the real life NYPD cop Barney Ruditsky. Ruditsky was a celebrity cop involved in dozens of high-profile cases and was credited with breaking up ‘Murder Incorporated’.
After he left the force, Ruditsky went to Hollywood and worked on many projects including The Lawless Years, to which he was a technical advisor.
This series never really got off the ground and lasted for just 48 episodes – it predated “The Untouchables” by six months.
The lawless years ran on NBC TV from 1959 to 1961.
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