Willie Sutton was born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn in l901 and came of age when banks were out of control. If they weren't failing outright, causing thousands of Americans to loose their jobs and homes, they were being propped out with emergency bailouts. Trapped in a cycle of panics, depressions and soaring unemployment, Sutton saw only one way out, only one way to win the girl of his dreams.
So began the career of America's most successful bank robber. Over three decades, Sutton became so good at breaking into banks, and such a master of breaking out of prisons, police called him one of the most dangerous men in New York and the FBI put him on its first-ever MOST WANTED LIST.
But the public rooted for Sutton. He never fired a shot, after all, and his victims were merely those bloodsucking banks. When he was finally caught for good in 1952 crowds surrounded the jail and chanted his name.
It was more than poverty or rage that drove Sutton. It was one unforgettable woman. In all his crimes and confinements, his first love was never far from his thoughts.
When Sutton finally walked free on Christmas Eve of 1969, he set out to find her.
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