John A. McCarty was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Kansas City Cowboys of the American Association during the 1889 season. He played minor league ball between 1887 and 1891... (wikipedia)
from trading in sex ... as well as violence to exploiting material ripped 'straight from the day's headlines' to casting, if not a completely sympathetic eye, at least an emphatic one on its lead gangster ...
I perceived that the gangster movie had replaced the Western as the quintessential American movie myth,
Gangster films reflect America, and that's what Americans are most interested in.