Scary Tales of New York - Season 1 - Eps 6: The Man They Couldn't Kill
Irish down and out Michael Malloy finds solace a Bronx dive bar and never pays his tab. Owner, Tony Marino, bar tender Joe Murphy, an under taker named Francis Pasqua, and regular Dan Kriesberg hatch a plan to insure the barfly and then kill him. Over several months they fail to kill him in increasingly outlandish ways. Wood alcohol, poisoned oysters, sandwiches laced with ground glass and carpet tacks, they strip him naked in an alcoholic coma and leave him in a freezing park... they even run him down with a taxi. He comes back through the doors of the bar every time... They finally succeed in gassing him but as they try to make their claims the insurers become suspicious and the gang begins to fight among itself. Tried as the 'Murder Trust' all four men go to the electric chair for their part in the killing of the almost indestructible Mr Malloy.
About Scary Tales of New York
Title: Scary Tales of New York
First Air Date: 2023-10-19
Last Air Date: 2023-11-23
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 0/10 (from 0 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 6
Network: Unknown
Genres: Crime
Production Companies: Impossible Factual
Synopsis
An investigation into the iconic real-life crimes in the age of film noir, from the Double Indemnity murder to the Honeymoon Killers and the mob hit on the boss of Murder Incorporated.
Cast
Colm Meaney
Storyteller
