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Principal photography took place in 1940, the same year its innovative trailer was shown, and the film was released in 1941. Cecilia Ager, reviewing it in PM Magazine, wrote: “Seeing it, it’s as if you never really saw a movie before.” [9] Although it was a critical success, Citizen Kane failed to recoup its costs at the box office.
City Hall is a 1996 American political thriller film directed by Harold Becker and starring Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda and Danny Aiello. [3] The film is Becker's second collaboration with Pacino, having directed him in Sea of Love (1989).
The Senator Was Indiscreet is a 1947 American comedy film, the only movie directed by playwright, theatrical director/producer, humorist, and drama critic George S. Kaufman. Produced by Universal Pictures it starred William Powell as a dim-witted U.S. senator who decides to run for president, with Ella Raines as a reporter interested in the ...
The movie, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, was remade in 2006, a version poorly reviewed despite an all-star cast that includes Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Anthony Hopkins. 28 ...
The character of political boss Jim W. Gettys is based on Charles F. Murphy, a leader in New York City's infamous Tammany Hall political machine. [7]: 61 Hearst and Murphy were political allies in 1902, when Hearst was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, but became enemies in 1905 when Hearst ran for mayor of New York. Hearst turned ...
Ann Hornaday, "The 34 best political movies ever made" The Washington Post Jan. 23, 2020), ranked #1; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 ISBN 0826429777, pages 295-296
The year is 1929, Tom Reagan is the right-hand man for Irish mobster Leo O'Bannon, a political boss who runs an unnamed U.S. city during Prohibition.Leo sets off a mob war when he extends protection to his girlfriend Verna's brother, a bookie named Bernie Bernbaum, who is skimming off the match fixing scheme of Leo's rival, the Italian gangster Johnny Caspar.
"And it's like 'Oh, this is like a Black nationalist in the mid-'80s — because that's that's kind of the philosophy of this movie, is what you might call like old-school Black leftism — this ...