Summer 1929 was the pinnacle of a new era of banking, and Charles E. Mitchell emblematized the live-fast-die-young ethos of roaring twenties stock salesmen. As the Great Crash led into the Great Depression, Charlie’s ambition brought about his downfall and forced him to go toe-to-toe with one of most doggedly committed prosecutors of the era: Ferdinand Pecora. It’s a story that’s more timely now than ever.
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Music:
- Hindustan by Bob Crosby & The Bob Cats
- Dogtown Blues by Bob Crosby & The Bob Cats
- Adagio in G Minor for Strings and Organ by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Easy Opium by Ben von Wildenhaus
- Battle of the Species by Antibalas
- Music for the Royal Fireworks by Handel
- One Bad Motherfucker in His Day by Ben von Wildenhaus
- Reckless by Brocker Way
- The Ox by The Who
- Potato Boy by Mac Demarco
- Tryouts by Brocker Way
- Heartaches by Al Bowlly
- The Beast by Dick Dale
- Let There Be Drums by Sandy Nelson
- It Was a Town by Brocker Way
- Glass Etudes by Etudes No. 6 by Philip Glass
- Etude by Joep Beving
- In Love and Justice by Colin Stetson
- Happy Days are Here Again by Ben Selvin & The Crooners
- End of Summer Part 2 by Johann Johannsson
- Less Likely by Trent Reznor
- 1929 by Merle Haggard
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