- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Rough Guides; illustrated edition edition (29 Sep 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1843534231
- ISBN-13: 978-1843534235
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 17.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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From The Godfather to Get Carter, big screen tales of organized crime have produced many of cinema's greatest films and most memorable moments. The Rough Guide to Gangster Movies gives you the lowdown on all aspects of the genre - from the 'Chicago' of James Cagney and the Los Angeles of Michael Mann to the cinema underworlds of London, Paris and Hong Kong. This guide collects the guns, the cars, the molls and the classic plots, with directors and actors such as Edward G Robinson, Al Pacino, Chow Yun Fat, Robert DeNiro and Ray Winstone. The Rough Guide to Gangster Movies is an offer you can't refuse.
About the Author
Lloyd Hughes started reviewing films at the age of 13 when he reviewed every movie he saw for the next four years. Lloyd is now a writer, broadcaster and researcher specialising in all descriptions of cinema.
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"Snatched from today's headlines" is how Warner Brothers advertised their gangster movies in the 1930s, and it's a fair indicator of the origins of the genre. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
"Snatched from today's headlines" is how Warner Brothers advertised their gangster movies in the 1930s, and it's a fair indicator of the origins of the genre. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Fine well-written overview. Easily the best of its kind. Covers all the bases on the top 50 gangster films as well as recommending loads more.
Solid and interesting on the films you cant have missed like Goodfellas or Scarface with lots of pointers to less known but interesting-sounding stuff. There's also an intriguing section giving a round up of international gangster movies. Good value with well chosen pix.
Solid and interesting on the films you cant have missed like Goodfellas or Scarface with lots of pointers to less known but interesting-sounding stuff. There's also an intriguing section giving a round up of international gangster movies. Good value with well chosen pix.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This has a lot to recommend it. It includes a lot of less well known films, many of which are excellent viewing. I enjoyed this a lot.
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Like the other Rough Guides to cinema, this one seems to be an able introduction with a lot of amusing sidebars - such as a guide to Italian recipes as presented in gangster flicks. The discordant note: inattentive editing. Time after time, I came across minor errors: for example, Larry Cohen's film Original Gangstas is wrongly titled Old Gangstas. We are also told that Luca Brasi gives a recipe for pasta sauce in The Godfather. In fact, the scene involves Clemenza; by that point in the movie, Luca Brasi is already sleeping with the fishes. . . Sure, these are minor points. But one inevitably suspects that there may be more important slips that one hasn't noticed.
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