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Here are 22 of the best gangster stories of all time—12 crime movies and 10 crime series that deliver action, suspense, comedy, romance, and heartbreak, all nested within violent narratives of ...
These are the best gangster movies of all time. The Untouchables. Of course, any collection of the best gangster movies ever made will look a lot like a list of the Robert De Niro's best films.
The Gangster (Paul Bettany and Malcolm McDowell) - Gangster No. 1; Benito García (Adal Ramones) - Saving Private Perez; Fernando "El Jefe" Garcia - Close Range; Julio Gonzales (Jimmy Smits) - Running Scared; Hideaki Goto (Kenichi Endo) - The Raid 2; Moe Greene - The Godfather; Manny "Papi" Greco (Edward James Olmos) - 2 Guns
(Top) 1 19th century. 2 Early 20th century (1900–1919) ... Mob Life: Gangster Kings of Crime Archived 2011-11-19 at the Wayback Machine — slideshow by Life magazine
[2] [3] Furthermore, the title of enforcer can also be interchangeable with the latter of the two as it is generally associated with gangsters even though not all gang enforcers necessarily resort to homicide on a regular basis or even at all. [4] [5]
Time included Goodfellas in their list of Time's All-Time 100 Movies. [69] Channel 4 placed Goodfellas at No. 10 in their 2002 poll The 100 Greatest Films, Empire listed Goodfellas at No. 6 on their "500 Greatest Movies Of All Time," [70] and Total Film voted Goodfellas No. 1 as the greatest film of all time. [71]
The American movie The Black Hand (1906) is thought to be the earliest surviving gangster film. [1] In 1912, D. W. Griffith directed The Musketeers of Pig Alley, a short drama film about crime on the streets of New York City (filmed, however, at Fort Lee, New Jersey) rumored to have included real gangsters as extras.
Soapy Smith (1860–1898): American con artist and gangster in Denver and Creede, Colorado and Skagway, Alaska, in the 1880s and 1890s [15] Adele Spitzeder (1832–1895): German actress that arguably was the first to perpetrate a Ponzi scheme between 1869 and 1872 when she defrauded thousands of people by promising them 10% return of interest ...