Sure, enough time has passed for gangster films released in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s to now be considered classics (see The godfather, Scar faceAnd Good guys respectively), but what about before that? If we look back 60 years or more, it turns out that the genre flourished earlier than some might expect, with notable organized crime films being made both in Hollywood and beyond as early as the 1920s and 1930s.