“Why didn’t you go grab a goddamn airplane like everybody else?” Transit Authority Police Lt. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) The claustrophobic suspense, where a gang out for revenge surrounds the skeleton crew of the film’s titular, decommissioned police station, is criminally relentless.
Here are some crime and gangster masterpieces which should be given another look: Photo Credit: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Imagesīesides Napoleon Wilson (Darwin Joston), a prisoner being shuttled to death row who counts his days like lovers, Assault on Precinct 13 contains no sentimentality: a little girl gets blown away for questioning flavors at an ice cream truck window, and the trapped cops and criminals-in-transit get no clue about the backstory.
Sorry for what I missed, hope it’s not a hanging offense. Whether they cross the pond as The Long Good Friday (1980), or hop the D-train as The Warriors (1979), they just want to come out and play. But there are less-known nuggets, and there are always new gangs waiting to expand their turf. Tony Montana’s fall into the fountain in Brian De Palma’s Scarface (1983) showed how to exceed success. Martin Scorsese opened the books for low-level street hoods in Mean Streets (1973), and pointed his cameras at the mid-level working capos in Goodfellas (1990). Occasionally The Godfather: Part II (1974) beats it in the ranking. Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Mario Puzo’s bestselling novel The Godfather (1972) is considered one of the greatest films ever made, in any genre, if not number one. High Sierra (1941) and White Heat (1949) are recognized for blowing up the horizon. Wellman’s The Public Enemy (1931), and Howard Hawks’ Scarface (1932), get a lot of credit for breaking ground in topics beyond criminality, shattering sexual taboos as well as the boundaries of acceptable visual violence. Mervyn LeRoy’s Little Caesar (1931), William A. The gangster and crime genre produced some of the most influential films in cinema history. Today that might be Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, and James Gandolfini. Robinson, and George Raft were the faces over the title. Every Friday night, a local NYC station ran old crime flicks on a slot called “Tough Guys.” Bogart, James Cagney, Edward G. I’ve loved gangster movies since I was four years old and saw Humphrey Bogart and Sylvia Sidney in Dead End (1937) on TV, and Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) at the movies (My dad pinched a lobby card for me).
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