Squizzy Taylor

Small-time crook Squizzy Taylor gains fame in 1920s Melbourne, juggling romance with Dolly, work for bookie Stokes, and his own criminal ventures while dodging police and attracting media attention. Wormy and diminutive, yet cunning and determined small-time hoodlum Squizzy Taylor rises to prominence and popularity in Melbourne, Australia in the 1920's. Squizzy romances brash moll Dolly and works for bookie Henry Stokes before branching out on his own while being hounded by the police and courted by the press the whole time. —Woodyanders