| One may jib, like George Orwell, at Greene's belief that a brutally stupid gangster is capable of intellectual subtlety. |
| Sox is an actor who dries at an audition because he cannot relate to the character of a township gangster. |
| The film was an inversion of the American gangster picture, a reinvention by means of revision. |
| The 32-year-old Jamaican-born gangster had grown dreadlocks and believed he had the Rastafarian God Jah on his side. |
| 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. |
| He progresses from juvie to prison, and from prison to full-fledged gangster. |
