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This is a list of hood films.These films focus on the culture and life of African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and, in some cases, Asian-Americans or White Americans who live in segregated, low-income urban communities.
Original Gangstas is a 1996 action-gangster film filmed and set in urban Gary, Indiana starring Blaxploitation film stars such as Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Jim Brown, Richard Roundtree, and Ron O'Neal. [3]
According to Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, the film is both a gangster comedy and an homage to 1930s gangster films, but is perhaps too clever for a mainstream audience. [8] According to Leigh Hallisey, the film is a parody of "old-school" gangster films and reveals Heckerling's awareness of their conventions and stereotypes. [9]
Gangster film [27] The Little Giant: Roy Del Ruth: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Helen Vinson: United States [28] The Mayor of Hell: Archie Mayo: James Cagney, Madge Evans, Allen Jenkins: United States [29] The Midnight Club: George Somnes, Alexander Hall: Clive Brook, George Raft, Helen Vinson: United States [30] Murders in the Zoo: Edward ...
White Heat is a 1949 American film noir starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien, and directed by Raoul Walsh.. Written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, White Heat is based on a story by Virginia Kellogg, and is considered to be one of the best gangster movies of all time.
Gangster film [49] Crackers: Louis Malle: Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, Sean Penn: United States [50] Fatal Vision: David Greene: Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Gary Cole: United States [51] Fear City: Abel Ferrara: Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith, María Conchita Alonso: United States [52] The Gunrunner: Nardo ...
Gangs of New York (2002), also directed by Scorsese, was the first modern gangster film to focus on the 19th-century Irish gangs. Although the gay nineties had been a popular setting for prewar crime films, from the 1950s until the early 21st century most gangster movies were set in either the prohibition era, postwar America, or the present day.
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