Because a gangster once saved his life, he now does hits for the mob, only communicating by carrier pigeon. |
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Sox is an actor who dries at an audition because he cannot relate to the character of a township gangster. |
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The 24-year-old singer is desperate to be cast in Universal Pictures' reboot of the classic 1983 Al Pacino gangster film. |
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So how do you do another Brit gangster movie without it kinda blurring into the crowd? |
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In another, an ageing yakuza gangster returns to a park where he used to meet his first love. |
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The film was an inversion of the American gangster picture, a reinvention by means of revision. |
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And we today would be worshiping some pantheon of gangster punks instead of Him. |
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Some of the elements of the gangster genre, such as the criminal holed up in his lair shooting it out with the cops, are here for the first time. |
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The violence is more ritualized than in, say, American gangster films, so that it seems both shocking and unreal at the same time. |
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Ten years later, he was killed by a small-time gangster, with a tanto, in a bar. |
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The double-dealing and back-stabbing illustrated the attitude of the Boston Irish gangster to informers. |
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The impetus and content of gangster rap may have originated in the desperation and backwardness of the inner-city population. |
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In many inner-city neighbourhoods, children emulate gangster culture and profess scorn for those who succeed in school. |
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The actor gets to play two characters in this outrageous little comedy, a sort of screwball gangster film. |
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It never really holds you by the scruff of the neck and hurls you into its vortex, for there is no vortex to this periodic gangster drama. |
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Then they would frequent the big tippers of the bar or their gangster boyfriends. |
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On cool days he also dons a topcoat and cuts the air like the most glorious gangster in the history of an otherwise colorless world. |
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New Russian is a euphemism for black-market pimp, smuggler, gangster, any tough young man with capitalist cash, and there are lots of them. |
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The British gangster film has always housed the skeletons of Shakespearean tragedy within it. |
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The triumphant success of this gangster paradigm lies in the script's wit and macabre irony. |
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This is no great film, but to treat it like some made-for-TV biopic of an unknown Midwestern gangster and his ditzy moll is itself a crime. |
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He falls in with a gangster while at the same time falling for the gangster's moll. |
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In the video, he gets chased around by a gangster for a while and then celebrates getting away by having a bit of a boogie on a stage. |
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Ten years later, Rikidozan was killed by a small-time gangster, with a tanto, in a bar. |
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These claims are referenced elsewhere in popular narcocorridos, or cartel folk songs, glamorizing the junior gangster. |
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Almost overnight, brothers shifted from Black Power chic to gangster buffoon. |
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The script is hackneyed, riddled with stereotypes and offers nothing that hasn't been seen in every single gangster film ever made. |
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Those who are fans of gangster movies will know that the practice of selling stolen property is known as fencing. |
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For gangster rappers, criminal charges can be a way of gaining credibility on the street, street cred. |
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To the chagrin of his coworkers, Pace commits to delivering 40 high-priced cars to a South American gangster with only a few days to spare. |
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Film geeks in video stores have at least since the advent of VHS spent far too much time talking about badly subtitled Hong Kong gangster films. |
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Last May the press also reported that he had hobnobbed with a well-known gangster at a wedding at which he was the guest of honor. |
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It's also a gangster film more interested in innocent bystanders than hoods or the police who chase them. |
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Critics mercilessly panned this romantic gangster comedy when it first appeared on the big screen, but is it really that bad? |
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The plot is a baffling array of gangster parody nonsense, sexist claptrap and kidnap chaos. |
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After all, from The Godfather to The Sopranos the gangster has become the iconic figure in American popular culture. |
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It is a gangster film with darkened images meant to impart an art-house quality. |
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In one scene we see Vicki's complete incomprehension of the gangster talk that surrounds her. |
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The Hit Man's first step onto the slippery slope had been taking a contract to kill a gangster. |
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She made her screen debut in 1990 as Verna, a two-bit floozy in the Coen Brothers' Prohibition gangster saga Miller's Crossing. |
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There's a gangster in a pork-pie hat, a beautiful woman with mermaid's tresses. |
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I recall seeing her in a very good gangster film set in the south of France and co-starring Rod Steiger and Edward G. Robinson. |
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He appeared on the cover of Time magazine and was glamorised as a gangster the law couldn't bring down. |
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She is dangerously charismatic as a ruthless pragmatist in a sharp gangster suit. |
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They are wannabe gangsters in a wannabe gangster film that just doesn't work. |
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The McLean gang member said the gangster had used Customs to clear the way for his own criminal activities. |
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Animal lover Mrs Trueman's funeral carriage was pulled by the horses used in the recent funeral of East End gangster Reggie Kray. |
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We take a moment to digest this information, to reconcile the image of a gangster with this quiet, personable man. |
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Because it's basically like a film noir grifter gangster story and Ed's the leader of a con team and they do this complicated grift. |
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The less official picture of Marko is of a gangster with a coterie of gunrunners, tobacco smugglers and drug dealers. |
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The evolution of swordfighting martial arts hero into gun-toting gangster must necessarily entail a new concept in production design. |
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In true gangster fashion, our hero plans a classic double-cross, but ends up underestimating at least one of his foes. |
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The 32-year-old Jamaican-born gangster had grown dreadlocks and believed he had the Rastafarian God Jah on his side. |
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One may jib, like George Orwell, at Greene's belief that a brutally stupid gangster is capable of intellectual subtlety. |
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He said you could appreciate directors who worked in gangster films, war films, westerns, etc. |
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He progresses from juvie to prison, and from prison to full-fledged gangster. |
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You might also hear the names Aunt Mary, skunk, boom, gangster, kif or ganja. |
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A jumbled curiosity of a film, Charlie isn't sure whether it wants to be a hard-boiled gangster thriller, a thoughtful biography, or a legal drama. |
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What Nucky Johnson was not was a gangster, though he did go to prison for a short stint, like al capone, for tax evasion. |
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The trip was bankrolled by low-level Miami gangster Raul Pacheco, himself already on probation for attempted armed burglary. |
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On July 2, a day before the date the couple had announced, El Chapo became the latest local gangster to marry a beauty queen. |
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The court sentenced the girl to a prison term of five to 10 years for abetting the murder of her former boyfriend by urging her gangster lover to commit the crime. |
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He says he was defamed by reports that falsely identified him as a former gangster. |
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In some way, you had to know he was a gangster, a killer, a mobster. |
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The bride's father wore a gangster outfit complete with trilby and spats, Andy's punk friends sported colourful Mohicans and four of the guests came as the Addams Family. |
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In contrast, the dress code was strictly 1930s gangster chic, with the men in pinstripes and fedoras while the women sported shawls and feathered caps. |
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It is the story of a displaced yakuza gangster, whose crime family is killed and who flies to LA in search of his brother, only to wind up in the gangland web there. |
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Like a gangster shooting in a Hays Code era motion picture, the inhale and the exhale are shown in separate shots. |
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He is a refreshing change from the spate of cockney rhyming slang characters and bumbling ex-footballer hardmen that riddled previous gangster films. |
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The theme for Michael Caine's gangster film Get Carter, written at the age of 23, lays ricocheting trains, chilling harpsichord and funky tablas over a swaggering bass line. |
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Are the guys from Vanity Fair and Time battling it out and trying to get gangster with each other? |
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In the neighborhoods they grow up in, prison is a rite of passage and being a street gangster is a viable career choice. |
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But for me, you gotta love a macho gangster film where the female lead cold-cocks the male lead for being an aggressive douche and he staggers right across the room. |
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As a Hollywood character actor he made his name in gangster movies, surrounded by brooding middle-aged hoodlums who cracked their knuckles and lurked sullenly at his shoulder. |
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A veteran of a long string of dead-end jobs, Jake graduates from bedsit land when his gangster grandfather dies leaving him a case of funny money. |
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The gangster is also often portrayed as a self-made man rising above his station, another affirmation of the spirit of free enterprise for the audience to clasp. |
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Music critics have also compared narcocorrido music to gangster rap. |
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As the story goes, gangster Al Capone smuggled mescal across the border and stayed in the village's first permanent rock structure, the Marine Club, a casino in Old Port. |
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Ming, a gangster, has worked his way up the police force ranks and Yan, a cop, has been undercover as top hitman for Sam, the pudgy-faced godfather, for nearly a decade. |
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Tom Hanks plays the part of an enforcer for a gangster during prohibition. |
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Lets his hair down by wearing a comedy tie and hand jiving to a gangster rap track. |
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The song is edgier, rougher and tougher sounding than any rock, metal or gangster rap song in commercial radio history. |
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He ended up landing a small role as an enforcer for a high-level gangster. |
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When 70s gangster film Neds was released in January last year, Connor said his dad had been a positive role model. |
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The group were never part of the gangster rap scene, like previous murder victims Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur. |
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It's dark and loud and the semi-circular upholstered booths are straight from an Al Pacino gangster filmset. |
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The display also includes the cell of gangster Al Capone and the car in which outlaws Bonnie and Clyde were killed. |
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But hip hop crossed over, converting scores of former heavy metal fans to gangster rap. |
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Birmingham reggae star Pato Banton has condemned gangster rap for promoting gun crime. |
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It's hard not to think of The Sopranos, the Corleones and a million gangster movies when you hear their stories of murder, family and mob rule. |
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Instead, the American list is filled with bubblegum pop, angst-laden gangster rap and bland soul without much spirit. |
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Later, the 1971 British gangster film Get Carter features a journey from London King's Cross to Newcastle in the opening credits. |
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In the motion picture The Godfather gangster Virgil Sollozzo took care of Luca Brasi by having him strangled. |
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He is thought to have co-authored songs for the Agatha Christie gothic rock group and written a gangster novel under a pseudonym. |
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A STALKER who fancied himself as Scarface gangster Tony Montana has been jailed for a campaign of abuse against two women. |
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Welsh Goldie Lookin' Chain are a parody gangster rap band who are completely uniquea in a certain sense of the word. |
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The only gangster picture ever done in blank verse, by Abraham Polonsky. |
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A jamaican Yardie gangster who was deported from Britain twice was given three life sentences yesterday for killing a loving family. |
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An old programme shows gangster twins Ronnie and Reggie fought Bobby Manito, of Clapham, and Bill Sliney, of King's Cross. |
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Shimmering camerawork marks a sleek gangster epic from Scarface man Brian De Palma. |
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Tommy guns, feather headbands, hats, glasses and other accessories will be provided by the Haze Team to add to the feel of the 20s flapper girl and the legendary gangster. |
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During filming, star Lana Turner's possessive gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, who was visiting from Los Angeles, believed she was having an affair with Connery. |
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For some men, a gangster influenced zoot suit may be the best fit. |
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In a Newsnight discussion on 12 August 2011, historian David Starkey blamed black gangster and rap culture, saying that it had influenced youths of all races. |
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He appeared sporadically on UK television in the early 1970s including his role as the gangster Laughing Spam Fritter opposite Adam Faith in Budgie. |
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Which means violent films, computer games and gangster rap music. |
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I'm not a fan of gangster rap, it's the ugly side of music,'' he said. |
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