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Gangster Story: Walter Matthau: Walter Matthau, Carol Grace, Bruce McFarlan: United States [8] Inspector Palmu's Mistake/The Rygseck Mystery (US DVD title) Matti Kassila: Joel Rinne, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela: Finland: Crime comedy [9] The League of Gentlemen: Basil Dearden: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey: United Kingdom [10] Ma ...
Detective Movie The Hot Rock: Peter Yates: Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman: United States [53] Prime Cut: Michael Ritchie: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins: United States [54] Rika the Mixed-Blood Girl: Kō Nakahira: Rika Aoki, Yasuo Arakawa, Satoshi Moritsuka: Japan: Crime thriller [55] Street Mobster: Kinji Fukasaku: Noboru ...
A gangster film or gangster movie is a film belonging to a genre that focuses on gangs and organized crime. It is a subgenre of crime film, that may involve large criminal organizations, or small gangs formed to perform a certain illegal act. The genre is differentiated from Westerns and the gangs of that genre.
Gangs of New York (2002), also directed by Scorsese, was the first modern gangster film to focus on the 19th-century Irish gangs. Although the gay nineties had been a popular setting for prewar crime films, from the 1950s until the early 21st century most gangster movies were set in either the prohibition era, postwar America, or the present day.
The Gangster (aka Low Company) is a 1947 American crime film noir starring Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring and Akim Tamiroff. It was directed by Gordon Wiles , with a screenplay by Daniel Fuchs , based on his novel Low Company (1937).
Simple English; Slovenščina; Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски ... Pages in category "Gangster films" The following 24 pages are in this category, out ...
Two main types of crime films were released during the period: the gangster picture and the prison film. A triumvirate of gangster pictures were released in the early 1930s—Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932)—which were built on the template created by the first gangster movie, 1927's Underworld. All featured ...
According to Larry Cohen, Davis "wanted to do a picture in which he was the star, instead of being a flunky to Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. So I suggested that they do a gangster movie like Little Caesar, since he was a little guy, and so was Jimmy Cagney, and so was Edward G. Robinson. And I thought he could play a little hoodlum working his ...