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Subject: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Little Hawk Date: 29 Apr 02 - 01:17 AM You know de kind...guys in fedoras and pinstripe suits, packin' tommyguns, wit' a moll or two hangin' on dere arm. Getaway cars wit' runnin' boards and real long hoods. Duesenbergs. Capone, Dillinger, and Bugsy Siegel. Lucky Luciano. Dutch Schulz. Ma Barker. Da mob. Prohibition. Corrupt cops and guys wit' names like "Mad Dog". G-men. Flatfoots and gumshoes. Bogart. A cold drink, a hot dame, a fresh stogie, and a colt .45 ... Gotta love it. What's yer favorite gangland movie, kids? - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Paul from Hull Date: 29 Apr 02 - 03:43 AM Well, not SURE it actually classes as a Gangster film, L.H. but if so, 'Some Like It Hot' gets my vote! If not, then 'Bugsy Malone'.... *G* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Paul from Hull Date: 29 Apr 02 - 03:44 AM Oh....or 'Dead men Dont Wear Plaid' |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: alison Date: 29 Apr 02 - 04:04 AM I go with "some like it hot"........... brilliant movie... one of my all time favs slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: GUEST,Ard Mhacha Date: 29 Apr 02 - 06:58 AM Yesterday while waiting on a Gaelic Foootball game to come on TV,I spent an hour watching the rmainder of G-Men [1935] Starring James Cagney, unbelieveable, how the hell did we watch this rubbish. All sentiment aside, this was an education on the myth of the good old days in Hollywood, so corny it was laughable, and as for Cagney and the rest of the cast, if they are in Hell[Heaven forbid] they will be destined to watch this Film forever, punishment enough without the flames. Ard Mhacha. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: kendall Date: 29 Apr 02 - 12:28 PM Little Ceasar (Edward G. Robinson) The best of all time is THE GODFATHER |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: C-flat Date: 29 Apr 02 - 12:35 PM I have the Godfather trilogy box set. Superb films all but part 2 gets my vote. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: GUEST,jonesey Date: 29 Apr 02 - 12:40 PM Gotta be da Godfadda! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Ron Olesko Date: 29 Apr 02 - 01:10 PM All The President's Men |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: GUEST,Slickerbill Date: 29 Apr 02 - 01:17 PM My vote would be Goodfellas or Casino; both Scorsese flicks I think (?) And I'd have to say the first season of the Sopranos was pretty good. fugeddaboudit. SB |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Wincing Devil Date: 29 Apr 02 - 01:20 PM The SopranosIt may be on TV, but when you rent the 1st 2 seasons on DVD and watch them back to back, then it's a movie!The Sopranos is the reason we got rid of cable and got a satellite system! Fuggetabowdit! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: AliUK Date: 29 Apr 02 - 01:44 PM This is gonna be good, The Godfather Trilogy of course, then comes along Goodfellas, a really underated movie. How about The Long Good Friday with Bob Hoskins and the best of the British `Mob` movies The LadyKillerswith Alec Guinness and Peter Sellars and an excellent bad boy by Herbert Lom. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: catspaw49 Date: 29 Apr 02 - 01:53 PM "Analyze This" with Billy Crystal and Robert DeNiro...a comedic beauty "Some Like It Hot"........a Lemmon/Curtis classic "Johnny Dangerously".....more cliches per inch of film with Michael Keaton Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Amergin Date: 29 Apr 02 - 02:07 PM Johnny Dangerously was also a satire....what about My Blue Heaven? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: GUEST,Desdemona at work Date: 29 Apr 02 - 02:12 PM We have a whole system whereby "Anyone Can Learn To Speak Gumshoe/Gangland/Rat Pack, etc." Simply preface every statement with "say", and end it with "see?" Refer to women in the 3rd person as "dolls", "broads", "dames" and "skirts"; "dollface" is always good when addressing them directly. "Bub", and "Mack" are good for addressing men, and a liberal sprinkling of terms like "gin mill", "classy joint" and the like is also helpful. Try it & see! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: GUEST,Ard Mhacxha. Date: 29 Apr 02 - 02:21 PM AliUK, I agree The long Good Friday, a great Film, with two great actors Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren, has to be one of the cleverest endings to any Film. And Ron Olver I admire your wit including All the Presidents men, was old tricky Dicky the gangster, another great movie. Ard Mhacha. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: catspaw49 Date: 29 Apr 02 - 02:22 PM Those were all satires 'Gin Boy....and "My Blue Heaven" cracks me up too! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Little Hawk Date: 29 Apr 02 - 03:43 PM Des - Say,dollface...ya gotta good point dere. I allus like a dame dat says what's gotta be said, when it's gotta be said, and den pipes down, powdahs her nose, and lets da guy run da show, see? Say, how's about you and me blow dis pop stand? Let's get outta dis dump. I gotta classy joint ta take ya to where da music nevah ends, see? It ain't no gin mill, see? Say, you gotta see dis place. Most dames would give up a poil necklace just to get t'rough da door, and I have met a lotta dames, see? But I ain't met no dames like you. You want to see a good time? Just whistle. I ain't no patsy. - LH (how's that?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Don Firth Date: 29 Apr 02 - 04:20 PM Two of the noir-est of the film noir:-- The Maltese Falcon (1941), although that was more of a "caper" movie than a gangster movie. And The Black Hand (1949), starring Gene Kelly in a none-dancing/singing role. One of the greatest schticks in any movie was in The Black Hand, when, in the dead of night, George Allani (played by character actor Carl Milletaire) sets the timer on a bomb, plants it in front of a store that refused to pay protection, and casually walks down the street, his heels clicking on the pavement as he counts in Italian. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: AliUK Date: 29 Apr 02 - 04:51 PM The Lemon Drop Kid with Bob Hope, excellent mobster comedy, Angels with Dirty Faces is another cool one too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Kim C Date: 29 Apr 02 - 04:52 PM The Godfather was a little before my time. I wasn't old enough to see it when it came out... but I did finally see it last Christmas on the Godfather Marathon on TBS or whatever it was. I really liked The Untouchables with Kevin Costner. The best part is when he throws Frank Nitti (that creepy Billy Drago) off the roof and he lands on the hood of a car. Andy Garcia says to him, Where's Nitti? And he answers... In the car. And the baby carriage scene in the train station is absolutely priceless for its suspense factor. 'Course in real life, Frank Nitti didn't get thrown off a roof. There was a lot that didn't follow the real story of Eliot Ness, which I think was pretty darn fascinating all by itself. But that's Hollywood for ya........... Would like very much to see Goodfellas and Analyze This. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Don Firth Date: 29 Apr 02 - 05:00 PM Bit of trivia, Kim:-- Darren E. Burrows, who played Ed Chigliak on Northern Exposure is the son of Billy Drago. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: annamill Date: 29 Apr 02 - 05:02 PM Hi Guys. Haven't been here much. I loved "A Bronx Tale". Any EG Robinson or Cagney movie is wonderful. I grew up in a real mob atmosphere in Newark, NJ, proud home of The Sopranos. Or close. Love, Annamill |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Paul from Hull Date: 29 Apr 02 - 05:05 PM Aaaargghhh! Now you got me wanting to change my vote to 'Guys & Dolls'! (Well, if 'Some Like it Hot' is up there for so many people, I'm sure we can squeeze in G'n'D, cant we?) *S* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: DonMeixner Date: 29 Apr 02 - 05:16 PM The Lavender Hill Mob |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Clinton Hammond Date: 29 Apr 02 - 05:42 PM Snatch Hands down... ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: GUEST,greg stephens Date: 29 Apr 02 - 05:47 PM If I fire this rod it'll be curtains for you. Why? It's a curtain rod. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Micca Date: 29 Apr 02 - 07:53 PM How about " Rififi"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: kendall Date: 30 Apr 02 - 09:34 AM Actually, Elliot Ness was a totally incompetnet G Man who, I believe committed suicide. (in real life) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Kim C Date: 30 Apr 02 - 10:02 AM Don, I knew that! I used to love Northern Exposure! (there's another TV series I miss) Kendall, it's sort of a funny thing... after I saw that movie, I wanted to find out more about what REALLY happened. So I went to the library and found... TWO books. Two books. One was Eliot Ness's own book, which was very short, and the other was a general thing about which gangster was who and all that. It's been so long ago now I don't even remember, except for the story of the Irish gangster who was a well-known florist. One day the rivals came in and shot him right there in the flower shop. Nice guys. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Steve Latimer Date: 30 Apr 02 - 10:16 AM It wasn't a movie, but the SCTV spoof on the 40's Mob movie was hilarious. Katherine O'Hara's cry of "I love ya Johnny ya big lug, I love ya" was bang on. The whole thing ended up with Johnny getting off so that he could lead a march to buy War bonds. I haven't been able to watch a Cagney or Bogey movie since. More votes for Snatch, The Lavender Hill Mob, Goodfellas, The Untouchables and Godfathers 1 & II. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: GUEST,Desdemona at work Date: 30 Apr 02 - 10:33 AM Aw, Little Hawk, ya big lug, dat kinda sweet talk just sends me; let's blow thgis joint & go somewheres swanky! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Kim C Date: 30 Apr 02 - 11:01 AM Here's a little info: Eliot Ness |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Lonesome EJ Date: 30 Apr 02 - 12:36 PM White Heat with James Cagney contains two of the greatest scenes in all of film, not just the gangster movies. Cagney as Cody Jarrett is eating lunch in the prison cafeteria when word arrive that his mother is dead. The word is passed from a trustee to each prisoner down the table until the last unfortunate soul has to tell the psychotic Jarrett. Cagney goes berserk, kicking food off the tables, screaming, punching guards and inmates. The second scene is the great one where Cagney takes refuge from the police at the top of a fuel storage tower. He is shot multiple times and staggers around the platform, bloody and laughing hysterically. At last, he fires his pistol into the leaking fuel, shouting "Look Ma! I'm on Top of the World!" And then the whole tower explodes in a fireball.
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Little Hawk Date: 30 Apr 02 - 01:12 PM Wow! Sounds like a killer of a scene, LEJ. I gotta rent dat one! I really liked "Miller's Crossing"...some marvelous scenes in that one. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: fat B****rd Date: 30 Apr 02 - 03:30 PM It's gotta be da tree Gs fa me Godfather Goodfellas Get Carter |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: AliUK Date: 30 Apr 02 - 04:08 PM Fat B****rd
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Little Hawk Date: 30 Apr 02 - 05:14 PM Say, we got a real good lineup here, Mac. Whatta bunch o' ugly mugs! Dis one's gotta face not even a muddah could love. Youse guys make me sick. Ya got no class, see? Ya wanna play in da big leagues, ya gotta have class, see? Where'd you get dat suit, joik? Dat suit musta cost a pretty penny. It'd look bettah on a stiff dan it does on you. Say, maybe I oughta just plug ya, and den it WILL be on a stiff. Whaddya say? Hey! Ya look kinda pale, kinda green around da gills... Maybe you oughta get a little sunshine, soldjah! Vinnie, take dis guy outside and show him some sunshine! Yeah, dat's right... Bruddah! Dis place gives me da creeps. It stinks in here. Why do I allus' hafta get a job in a place dat stinks? Nevah mind. T'morrow I'll be puttin' my feet up in a swanky joint, and youse guys'll be talkin' to da fish. Take 'em ALL outside, Vinnie! - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: fat B****rd Date: 01 May 02 - 08:29 AM Ali UK. Definitely with Michael Caine. Originally set in Scunthorpe and with a loyal bunch of fans who make a pilgrimage to that infamous car park every year. Check out www.getcartertour.co.uk for a fascinating website. all the best in a thin glass from the fB |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie Date: 01 May 02 - 08:54 AM Hey, you're not gonna forget BUGSEY MALONE are you? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Little Hawk Date: 01 May 02 - 12:28 PM Faggedaboudit, Mack! Bugsey don't pull no weight around heah no more. Bugsey's pushin' up daisies. Say, you look kinda familiah ta me... You been hangin' around da Bowery? I know I seen dat ugly face somewheah. You look like one o' Lefty Aronowitz's kid bruddahs to me. Lemme give ya a piece of advice, kid. Keep a clean nose, watch out for da plainclothes, and stay away from dose dat carry round a firehose. Anybody asks ya anyt'ing you just tell 'em Dane sent ya. Got dat? Dane. See ya around, kid. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favourite Gangster Movie! From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 01 May 02 - 04:04 PM I can't believe no one has mentioned Public Enemy Number 1 with James Cagney. That and Little Caesar defined the ganster movie. They used to show the as a double feature a couple of times a year at a secondrun- third-rate movie theater in my home town when I was a kid. I think I could have done a pretty good Rocky Horror Show performance at the front of the theater, I watched the movies so many times. The ending of Public Enemy has to be one of the classic endings of all time. Cagney has been gunned down by the mob, and they leave him propped against the front door of his house. They ring the doorbell and leave, and when Cagney's Mother opens the door he pitches forward on the floor, flat on his face. You don't know it's going to happen until it happens.
That scene qualifies as one of the two most jolting scenes I've ever seen in a movie. The other is Richard Widmark shoving a lady in a wheelchair down a flight of stairs, killing her in the fall.
Brrrrr... Jerry |