Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Mario Puzo’s bestselling novel The Godfather (1972) is considered one of the greatest films ever made, in any genre, if not number one. High Sierra (1941) and White Heat (1949) are recognized for blowing up the horizon. Wellman’s The Public Enemy (1931), and Howard Hawks’ Scarface (1932), get a lot of credit for breaking ground in topics beyond criminality, shattering sexual taboos as well as the boundaries of acceptable visual violence. Mervyn LeRoy’s Little Caesar (1931), William A. The gangster and crime genre produced some of the most influential films in cinema history. Today that might be Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, and James Gandolfini. Robinson, and George Raft were the faces over the title. Every Friday night, a local NYC station ran old crime flicks on a slot called “Tough Guys.” Bogart, James Cagney, Edward G. I’ve loved gangster movies since I was four years old and saw Humphrey Bogart and Sylvia Sidney in Dead End (1937) on TV, and Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) at the movies (My dad pinched a lobby card for me).
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