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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