Razor (underbelly)

Synopsis

This "Underbelly" TV tie-in edition is the acclaimed, award-winning history of the Razor gangs – now the basis for Channel 9’s 13-part blockbuster – "Underbelly Razor". In the 1920s and ‘30s in inner Sydney, some of the most terrifying criminals in Australia’s history waged war with razor and gun. As gang fought gang, the streets echoed with the sound of violence and ran with blood. 'Razor' chronicles in compelling detail the nether word ruled by fabled vice queens Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh, and financed by the spoils of illegal drugs and alcohol, prostitution, gambling and extortion. Gangsters such as Guido Calletti, Big Jim Devine and Frank ‘the Little Gunman’ Green killed, robbed and slashed with impunity.