Meta Raft

From Johnny Allegro (dir. Ted Tetzlaff, 1949). Criminal mastermind and crazed aesthete Morgan Vallin (George Macready) thinks that ex-con Johnny Allegro (George Raft) is still the hoodlum of old newspaper photographs. “I’ve changed a lot since then,” Allegro tells him.

“But your type never changes. Just looking at you makes me think of alley fighting, tommy guns.”

“Is that bad?”

I guess not, not if you’re George Raft.