tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507748677937404511.post1157899122110944020..comments2024-03-28T01:36:10.408-04:00Comments on Dancin' Dan On Film: Thursday Movie Picks - GangstersDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11480863610135936930noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507748677937404511.post-9429518452610161062018-11-01T15:57:52.788-04:002018-11-01T15:57:52.788-04:00We match! Analyze This is very funny and I love th...We match! Analyze This is very funny and I love that scene about the Mobster never hearing the word no. I had chosen Some Like It Hot before so i couldn't pick it but I love it especially jack lemmon and Joe E Brown. I haven't seen Bullets but want to one day.Birgithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09439720285857050428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507748677937404511.post-83716133362095980242018-11-01T15:35:19.902-04:002018-11-01T15:35:19.902-04:00I love Some Like It Hot, fantastic movie. I haven&...I love Some Like It Hot, fantastic movie. I haven't seen your other two picks though. (I know..lol)Brittani Burnhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07975067259283007280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507748677937404511.post-1364024186654043172018-11-01T14:47:01.394-04:002018-11-01T14:47:01.394-04:00I didn't even think about the comic route, wel...I didn't even think about the comic route, well-played. <br /><br />Some Like It Hot is just so faultless with every single performer firing on all cylinders. Not just Marilyn, Lemmon, Curtis and Brown though all are inimitable, but everyone in support...my favorite will always remain Sweet Sue!<br /><br />I can't say quite the same for Bullets Over Broadway but with Palminteri, Tilly and especially Dianne Weist all delivering such hilarious joyous performances the cluttered background is easy to ignore. <br /><br />I haven't seen Analyse This all the way through, I always seem to catch it near the half way point but I'm sure I will someday.<br /><br />There are just SO many ways to go with this week I felt the need to find a hook to narrow it down. So, I went with one of the ultimate gangster stars-James Cagney to pull it together for me.<br /><br />The Public Enemy (1931)-Tom Powers (Cagney-in the role that made him a major star) is a small-time hood, vicious and consciousless who climbs to success on the back of Prohibition and his willingness to do whatever necessary-rob, maim, kill-to gain advantage. The film chronicles that rise, and fall, as well as his entanglement with two women Gwen (Jean Harlow, this was one of her earliest appearances, don’t judge her on it-she’s awful-look to her MGM comedies where she’s great) and Kitty (Mae Clarke) who famously receives a grapefruit in her kisser when she mouths off to Cagney. This William Wellman directed picture is one of the formative films in creating the gangster drama. <br /><br />The Roaring Twenties (1939)-Eddie Bartlett (Cagney), George Hally (Humphrey Bogart) and Lloyd Hart (Jeffrey Lynn) strike up a friendship in a foxhole during WWI. Once back in the States they go their separate ways but eventually circumstances bring them back together in the bootlegging business where they find enormous success until jealousies, rivalries and the stock market crash brings it all tumbling down. One of the last great gangster films of the 30’s with a fantastic cast including Priscilla Lane and a scene stealing Gladys George as the lovelorn songbird Panama Smith who delivers the film’s iconic last line.<br /><br />Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)-Amoral gangster Ralph Cotter (Cagney) breaks out of prison along with fellow prisoner Carleton (Neville Brand). When Carlton is injured Cotter murders him to speed his escape and jumps right back into crime blackmailing Carleton’s sister Holiday (Barbara Payton) into a relationship to conceal her part in aiding their jailbreak. Discovering graft Cotter pressures a couple of crooked cops (Barton MacLane and Ward Bond) and an equally corrupt lawyer (Luther Adler) into a scheme to bilk heiress Margaret Dobson (Helena Carter) out of a fortune. Things do not go as planned. This was the highpoint of leading lady Barbara Payton’s career. A beautiful if somewhat hard looking blonde at this time she was considered a rising star but after a scandal plagued and notorious career she fell as far as it’s possible to go ending up a drug addicted skid row hooker (once being mistaken for a pile of garbage after being left next to a dumpster following a beating) before her death from organ failure at 39.joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507748677937404511.post-43356922134473982172018-11-01T14:45:33.588-04:002018-11-01T14:45:33.588-04:00oh my God Bullets Over Broadway is so freaking fun...oh my God Bullets Over Broadway is so freaking funny. My favorite is when Cusack opens the window and shouts that he is a whore because he sold himself out lols.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13987831438787776712noreply@blogger.com