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From what I can gather, two main social factors led to the popularity of the gangster genre in the 1930s.
I don't think so because she is in a sense a gangster herself.
paul benjamin should have been nominated for best supporting actor academy award of 1972, excellant gangster film , it"s a classic this motion picture rates up there with little caesar , the godfather 1&2 the public enemy ,new jack city your truly, w.doc hudson
Alan Ladd had a style as a gangster that counterpointed well with the wonderful Sheldon Leonard ("Hey, Buddy, ... C'mere!") Helen Walker presented an unusually perky, sexy look that was never really exploited in the movies.
Little Caesar's character begins and ends as an adult gangster.
THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY is a gangster film, and an excellent one at that, exploring old themes of loyalty, betrayal, expansion etc. with verve and excellently choreographed, imaginatively novel violence (and no law in sight).
When he played a gangster again in white heat a year later it was a big hit.
In the 40's cagney wanted to stay away from the gangster films but most of the films he made did pretty bad.
Clearly it was a cynical ploy to cash in on the success of the previous year's White Heat which provided Cagney with one of his finest gangster roles.
He has another good gangster role here but it's never going to get even close to Cody Jarret.
Liam was the kind of gangster he played in this movie ( he has changed to the better now.. he found god).
"The Godfather" trilogy and "Goodfellas" owe a lot to this gangster film that preceded them both by at least fifty years.
Competently made British gangster movie that failed to charm me.
As good a gangster movie that has ever been made as DePalma does justice to Mamet's electric script.
He wears different coloured strange shaped glasses every day, hardly what you'd see a tough gangster doing.
Jacques Audiard, who previously gave us the very interesting Read My Lips (2001) and the cute and clever Venus Beauty Institute (1999), manages to create here a story about a character who is both a petty gangster and a pianist.
Metro's answer to the gangster movies made by Warner's is exciting film fare.The film marks the beginning of the Powell-Loy partnership which made legend in their next pairing.Gable's portrayal of a sympathetic gangster is just as good as any of Cagney's at Warner's.Great comic turn by Nat Pendleton as Gable's not too bright henchmen.
I love gangster movies and after seeing this i even loved it more.
It's different than the average gangster genre given that it has quite a lot of comedy interplay with the story.
It's a gangster movie, and like all gangster movies it stands or falls on the strengths of the lead actor.
No, it is a cheap, trashy, commercial, gangster movie with no morally redeeming value at all.
Outstanding gangster movie.
How would Jimmy Cagne fair in modern day gangster land?
Martin Scorsese is always going to be remembered for his gangster pictures and his collaborations with Robert de Niro.
Instead it is a stupid gangster movie, with a stupid plot, bad acting and generally bad feeling throughout the picture.
Here, he plays Jimmy Bones, a gangster who is killed in 1979 and then years later is awakened and out for revenge against the ones who killed him.
It's another gangster movie, but one with a story I've never seen before and really enjoyed.
He doesn't know anything about being a rapper, he doesn't know anything about drug dealing, he doesn't know anything about being a gangster, and frankly it makes people in Iowa look really bad because i'm sure they are not really like that.
The movie takes place during the Al Capone gangster era.
Stylish tale of thug's love/hate relationship with famous gangster benefits from a terrific performance by Paul Bettany as a really scary guy.
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