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I Mobster *** (1959, Steve Cochran, Lita Milan, Robert Strauss, Celia Lovsky, John Brinkley, John Mylong) – Classic Movie Review 6147
Director Roger Corman’s lively and lusty 1959 film noir crime drama movie I Mobster is your usual version of that usual, well-known yarn, used again in 1992 in Billy Bathgate and Mobsters, about a poor […]
Bugsy Malone **** (1976, Scott Baio, Jodie Foster, Florrie Dugger, John Cassisi, Martin Lev, Paul Murphy, Patrick Dempsey) – Classic Movie Review 6061
Writer-director Alan Parker’s entertaining 1976 British musical burlesque of the vintage American gangster movies Bugsy Malone has children taking all the roles – led by Scott Baio (aged 15) as Bugsy and Jodie Foster (aged […]
Bugsy **** (1991, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Joe Mantegna, Elliott Gould) – Classic Movie Review 6060
Warren Beatty stars in director Barry Levinson’s exciting, lovingly crafted 1991 mob crime thriller Bugsy as real-life charming but psychotic Forties gangster Benjamin (‘Bugsy’) Siegel, sent by Meyer Lansky (Ben Kingsley) to control the rackets […]
Baby Face Nelson *** (1957, Mickey Rooney, Cedric Hardwicke, Carolyn Jones, Chris Dark, Ted De Corsia, John Hoyt, Anthony Caruso, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 5906
‘Don’t see it unless your nerves are bullet proof!’ Director Don Siegel’s sizzling 1957 gangster thriller and crime biopic provides a great part for Mickey Rooney in a career-changing role. Unlikely though Rooney is as […]
It’s Always Fair Weather *** (1955, Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, Michael Kidd) – Classic Movie Review 5673
Back on the town, following On the Town (1949) that is, three wartime GI buddies, Ted (Gene Kelly), Doug (Dan Dailey) and Angie (Michael Kidd), meet up again at a New York bar on 11 October […]
Borsalino **** (1970, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Catherine Rouvel) – Classic Movie Review 5553
The stylish 1970 Thirties-set French gangster film Borsalino is the ideal vehicle for Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo in their prime, as petty criminals Roch Siffredi and François Capella, who graduate into big-time mobsters down […]
Criminal Court *** (1946, Tom Conway, Martha O’Driscoll, Robert Armstrong, Addison Richards, June Clayworth) – Classic Movie Review 5295
Director Robert Wise’s 1946 mystery thriller is an excellent, short (64 minutes) little B-movie crime programmer from the RKO Radio Pictures studio. Tom Conway stars as lawyer Stephen Barnes who accidentally shoots dead a bent […]