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Loosely based on the 1947 film of the same name, writer Richard Price has added several dimensions to this version, while leaving the main plot intact. The film centers around excrook Jimmy Kilmartin (Caruso), who ends up caught between a corrupt Distcrict Attorney and an unforgiving mobster. Kilmartin, at the pleading of his cousin Ronnie, is coerced into driving a tuckload of stolen cars across Manhattan to an awaiting freighter. It is hard to forget the bizarre sight of four brightly lit trucks barreling through the streets of Manhattan. When the cops arrive on the scene, the rest...
With a family to worry about and his life at stake, Kilmartin is forced to cooperate with the police. Infiltrating the same organization that masterminded the stolen car operation, Kilmartin befriends the boss, Little Junior (Cage). As an insane mobster, Cage gives the performance of his life. The cop assigned to oversee Kimartin's undercover work in the mob, Calvin (Jackson), is the same one who caught a bullet under the eye when Kilmartin was arrested. Having lost control of his tear duct, Calvin totes a hankerchief to dab his incessantly watering...
While this film is obviously Carouse's vehicle, it is Cage who drives off with it. Quite simply he is the most inherently entertaining actor in film today. Thankfully, his taste for material is sometimes as brilliant as his acting. His Little Junior is nuts, but like Kilmartin, has a human side which is especially charismatic. Every time the asthmatic Little Junior reaches for his gold-plated inhaler one can almost forget about the men he has bludgeoned to death...
...There's only a few ways to improve the T," Kilmartin said, "and this is one of them...
...Kilmartin said she felt passengers would notvandalize the trains because they "make peoplefeel better about public transportation...