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Post by jervistetch on Apr 27, 2017 15:03:20 GMT
Kiss of Death (1947) - Henry Hathaway
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 27, 2017 15:20:41 GMT
LITTLE CAESAR (1930) -- Mervyn LeRoy
SCARFACE (1932) -- Howard Hawks
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 27, 2017 15:38:47 GMT
In no order:
Scarface (Paul Muni)
Little Caesar
Public Enemy
White Heat
St Valentine's Day Massacre
Legs Diamond
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Post by vegalyra on Apr 27, 2017 16:13:41 GMT
Definitely Scarface and the Public Enemy. Little Caesar is great too. I love those films.
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 27, 2017 17:51:31 GMT
I actually love Scarface and Little Caesar, too. I just wanted to leave some for others to name. Still vividly remember Robinson's last line in Little Caesar, and I haven't seen it in decades, so that's saying something. Mother of Mercy, is this the end of the Spider thread??? Nah -- lots more possibilities. |
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Post by teleadm on Apr 27, 2017 19:37:18 GMT
Some of my favorites:
Angels with Dirty Faces 1938
The Roaring Twenties 1939
Key Largo 1948
White Heat 1949
Night and the City 1950
Touchez pas au grisbi 1953 (or Hands Off the Loot or just Grisbi)
Du rififi chez les hommes 1955 (or just Rififi)
Hell on Frisco Bay 1955
Le clan des Siciliens 1969 (or The Sicilian Clan)
The Molly Maguires 1970 (an Irish immigrants pre-mafia movement)
The Valachi Papers 1972
The Godfather 1972
The Godfather Part II 1974
and there is a good place to stop and to call them classic era gangster movies (made between 1894 - 1975, that's my measurement and nothing I would force upon others!)
For the lighter side of gangsters there's always Ball of Fire 1941 and Guys and Dolls 1955
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 27, 2017 20:13:28 GMT
I tried to find a few that hadn't been suggested yet.
Kawaita Hana (Pale Flower) / Masahiro Shinoda (1964)
Das Testament Des Dr. Mabuse / Fritz Lang (1933)
The Killers / Robert Siodmak (1946)
The Killers / Don Siegel (1964)
Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle) / Jean-Pierre Melville (1970)
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Post by gadolinium on Apr 27, 2017 20:24:27 GMT
Every gangster movie with James Cagney in it (especially The Roaring Twenties and The Public Enemy) and most of the movies already mentioned (Scarface, Little Caesar, etc.).
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 27, 2017 20:31:27 GMT
Here are three more obscure but interesting gangster/crime films that I saw a few years ago when TCM ran an "armored car robbery" mini-festival.
Armored Car Robbery / Richard Fleischer. (1950).
The Hoodlum / Max Nosseck (1951).
Guns, Girls, And Gangsters / Edward L. Cahn (1959).
Some gangster comedy with John Ford's The Whole Town’s Talking (1935).
Some more flotsam and jetsam of my mind. Forgive me if any have been mentioned already. Maybe not "great" films, but I wouldn't mind seeing them all a second time.
Pépé Le Moko / Julien Duvivier (1937)
Die 3 Groschen-Oper (The Threepenny Opera) / Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1931)
The Lineup / Don Siegel (1958)
Dead Reckoning / John Cromwell (1947)
Johnny Cool / William Asher (1963)
Black Caesar / Larry Cohen (1973)
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond / Budd Boetticher (1960)
Whipsaw / Sam Wood (1935)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 20:40:47 GMT
Breathless (1960)
Le Doulos (1963)
Le Samouraï (1967)
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 27, 2017 21:16:33 GMT
Alibi (1929) Roland West . Chick Williams is a prohibition gangster, he re-joins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion...
Koruto wa ore no pasupooto , A Colt is My Passport (1967) Excellent Japanese yakuza film directed by Takashi Nomura.
Underworld U.S.A. (1961) Excellent Samuel Fuller revenge crime thriller ' nihilistic vendetta to bring down the mobsters who have risen to the top of the crime syndicate.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 27, 2017 21:39:45 GMT
Some gangster comedy with John Ford's The Whole Town’s Talking (1935). That's a great mention, to which I'd add Robinson's 1938 A Slight Case Of Murder and, even better, his 1942 Larceny, Inc. - employing themes that would be reworked later in We're No Angels (1955) and Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks (2000) - featuring a sterling supporting cast of reliable and colorful players: Broderick Crawford, Jane Wyman, Jack Carson, Anthony Quinn, Harry Davenport, Edward Brophy, Grant Mitchell, John Qualen, Jackie Gleason and Fortunio Bononova among others. Deft Warners workhorse Lloyd Bacon directed both. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 27, 2017 22:30:17 GMT
Another along these lines that fits the thread topic, then takes a crazy but wonderful plot twist is Brother Orchid (1940), also starring Robinson. Another very entertaining Lloyd Bacon effort. I'm ashamed of myself for not thinking of it, and glad that you did. And another great cast: Bogart, Ann Sothern, Ralph Bellamy, Donald Crisp, Cecil Kellaway and Allen Jenkins (who, for quite some years, seemed to be in competition with Guy Kibbee to make his way into more Warner releases than any other contract player). And yet another along light-hearted lines featuring Robinson, Bogart, Crisp and Jenkins was The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse. When you think about it, Robinson may have spent more years doing gangster send-ups than playing them in earnest. |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 28, 2017 6:07:30 GMT
Underworld (1927) directed by Josef von Sternberg, Ben Hecht won the Academy Award for Writing. The film is recognized as one of the great gangster films of the silent era. it established the fundamental elements of the gangster movie... a hoodlum hero, ominous, night-shrouded city streets, floozies, and a blazing finale in which the cops cut down the protagonist.
In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated this film for its Top 10 Gangster Films list...
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 28, 2017 15:08:05 GMT
A few more:
Kansas City Confidential
The Great St Louis Bank Robbery
Dillinger (w/Lawrence Tierney)
Baby Face Nelson
Machine Gun Kelly
The Last Mile
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Post by teleadm on Apr 28, 2017 15:46:30 GMT
Some of my favorites: For the lighter side of gangsters there's always Ball of Fire 1941 and Guys and Dolls 1955 What a great list, teleadm. Thanks so much. And your time-frame is good. I didn't want to get into the gangster films of the 80s and beyond - too violent for me, and not what I would consider classics anyway. I forgot to write Some Like it Hot 1959, on the last sentences about the lighter side! |
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