classic gangster movies with stool pigeons/informants?

November 8, 2013 5:43 PM

I'm looking for any old gangster movie - not a particular one, just any gangster movie older than about 1960 - where a villain caught by the police is offered some kind of break for ratting out his/her associates. Bonus points if the cops, once they have the information, punish the guy anyway.
posted by hannahmae to Media & Arts (2 answers total)

It's not 100% on point, but "Kiss of Death" is quite close and a stone-cold classic besides.
posted by rhizome at 8:28 PM on November 8, 2013

Response by poster: Ooh, sweet - thanks! I also discovered that the real-life story of the end of John Dillinger is pretty much exactly what I'm looking for - he was turned in by a brothel operator who was trying to avoid deportation to Romania, but after she helped set up the sting in which Dillinger was killed, the brothel operator got deported anyway.
posted by hannahmae at 5:03 PM on November 15, 2013