Word: gangsterisms
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...summer though you would never know it from the reception it got. It bombed almost everywhere except in Boston, and where it was said that the movie owed its success to its realistic handling of the local environment. The movie did much more; it's perhaps the only gangster story with social roots intact. The story is about the low-level gangster's underworld of Boston--of petty cooks beating out colleagues for petty cash, of 'friends' betraying 'friends' for survival in this dog-eat-dog gangster's game--and of the dreams that keep them going, the Florida vacation...
...game with society rather than within it. When Francoise asks him how he came by such a profession, he shrugs, "I come by mine the same way you do by yours, out of need or by choice." He is obviously the moral man. He is also the glamorous gangster. Given the style in which he executes the heist--posing as a rich ice cream manufacturer, vacationing in a Ritzy Cannes hotel, driving a Mercedes, bowling over women the while--it's a wonder that anybody ever goes straight. The answer is that they're gutless (feminized). It takes a Simon...
...theory and by treaty, a judicial and diplomatic minuet, in which all the refinements are respected. In practice, as the narcotics cases suggest, it is often otherwise. The formula used to be that the expelling nation put the fugitive forcefully aboard "the next direct ship." In 1930 New York Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond was returned to the U.S. from Germany in just that manner. Today the formula is "the next plane out," and sometimes that happens even when there is no extradition treaty. Afghanistan has none with the U.S. but when Timothy Leary was in Kabul, Afghan authorities did some...
...most intriguing Janus program is the pair of French gangster films Casque D'Or (1952) and Pepe Le Moko (1936). Pepe unabashedly imitates American films like Scarface, but period piece Casque set in the Belleville district of Paris in 1898, has golden-haired Simone Signoret as well as a guillotine to set it apart...
...worked mainly on organized crime, the film is notable for the same clear, crisp dialogue found in the book--it led Norman Mailer to write, "What I can't get over is that so good a first novel was written by the fuzz." Robert Mitchum plays aging small-time gangster Eddie "Fingers" Coyle...