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  • "Scarface" - Paul Muni does Capone, better than Capone

    1 16.67%

  • "Little Caeser" aka "Rico" - Edward G. Robinson creates his signature role.

    3 50.00%

  • "Mad Dog Killer Duke Mantee" from "Petrified Forest" - Bogart's Tour de Force

    0 0%

  • "Tom Powers" from "Public Enemy" - Cagny invents the cocksure killer.

    0 0%

  • "James Allen" from "I'm a Fugitive From a Chain Gang" - Paul Muni most underated of all time

    0 0%

  • "Tommy Udo" from 'Kiss of Death" - Pushes an old lady and her wheel chair down a flight of stairs!

    1 16.67%

  • "Rocky Sullivan" - "Angels with dirty Faces" - Cagney gangster with a soul.

    0 0%

  • "Jim Frazier" - "Angels with Dirty Faces" - Bogart's best turn as Cagney's nemisis.

    0 0%

  • The Swede" from "The Killers" - Burt Lancaster as another reluctant villain.

    0 0%

  • "Cody Jarrett" from "White Heat" - Cagney's violent personae inspires a million parodies.

    1 16.67%
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  1. 10-26-2006, 04:48 AM #1
    Worf101
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    Poll Best Gangster 30's and 40's

    Film gangsters existed BEFORE Micheal Corleone and Tony Montana. I'm taking them by era so's we can git our licks in in detail.

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  2. 10-26-2006, 05:59 AM #2
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    yeah see.... i voted for white heat see... got that copper...
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  3. 10-26-2006, 08:16 AM #3
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    I can see this poll's gonna be a barn burner....

    I voted for Robinson's "Rico". That role is the most parodied in movie history. We've all done out best Edward G. And what I find fascinating is that Robinson and Bogart were very progressive men and fought McCarthy at every turn. Robinson gets kudos for breaking out of this stereotype to make great, great films, that didn't require him to carry a gun.

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  4. 10-26-2006, 08:25 AM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by Worf101
    I voted for Robinson's "Rico". That role is the most parodied in movie history. We've all done out best Edward G. And what I find fascinating is that Robinson and Bogart were very progressive men and fought McCarthy at every turn. Robinson gets kudos for breaking out of this stereotype to make great, great films, that didn't require him to carry a gun.

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    Strangely enough i always quote edward g. from the 10 Commandments. it always struck as me as rather odd that a gangster could be found so easily in ancient egypt. one of the strangest castings but just kinda worked in its own way. "Where are we going? Do you know where we're going? anyone know where we're going?"
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  5. 10-26-2006, 08:28 AM #5
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    I voted for Scarface. I just loved that movie.
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  6. 10-26-2006, 09:59 AM #6
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    I've seen exactly zero of those movies.
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  7. 10-26-2006, 10:51 AM #7
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    Top O' the world ma!...

    ...Hard one to call...Cagney? Bogart? Edward G.?...all classics...

    My wife would probably vote for Richard Widmark in Kiss Of Death...she claims the wheelchair/stairway scene still freaks her out whenever such topics arise in conversation...And while she's a huge fan of Cagney, it's six of one, half-dozen of t'other for his song and dance films...

    Some of Bogie's best work...Casablanca...The Maltese Falcon...The African Queen...weren't really gangster flicks...

    So I'd guess the nod goes to Rico...after all, spanning millennia, even in The Ten Commandments, Dathan was an nasty, underhanded, duplicitous character...

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  8. 10-26-2006, 03:02 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by Worf101
    Robinson gets kudos for breaking out of this stereotype to make great, great films, that didn't require him to carry a gun.

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    I agree with you there Worf. And the 1942 movie Larceny, Inc. prove your point. It is a comedy/gangster movie where Robinson buy a luggage store to rob the bank next door (by digging into it from the store). But customers keep showing up wanting to buy luggage and intrupting his hole digging. It is pretty hilarious
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  9. 10-26-2006, 03:21 PM #9
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    I enjoy drinking 40s while listening to Gang Starr, Gifted Unlimited Rhyming Universal. Y'all dont know!! Do you? Ta Hell with it, cuz hiphop isn't considered music by anyone here.

    ps. I really dont care to drink beer or malt at all. Just couldnt help myself

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  10. 10-27-2006, 04:10 AM #10
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    One thing you'll learn....

    Quote Originally Posted by jrhymeammo
    I enjoy drinking 40s while listening to Gang Starr, Gifted Unlimited Rhyming Universal. Y'all dont know!! Do you? Ta Hell with it, cuz hiphop isn't considered music by anyone here.

    ps. I really dont care to drink beer or malt at all. Just couldnt help myself

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  11. 10-27-2006, 04:16 AM #11
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    Errr Dusty..

    Quote Originally Posted by Dusty Chalk
    I've seen exactly zero of those movies.
    Remember a couple of weeks back when I said I was "glad to see you" and all that stuff...

    Errrr. fuggedaboutit....

    Get they to a Blockbusterand start catchin' up on some of these gangster classics lest ye be expelled again from here and banished forever to Movie Munchkin Land. Sir Terrible would be so dissappointed in ya...

    LOL. Actually you should do yourself a fave and see some of these classic gangster films...

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  12. 10-27-2006, 05:25 AM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by Worf101
    LOL. Actually you should do yourself a fave and see some of these classic gangster films...

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    what he meant to say was...

    "mmyeah see... see them see... mmyeah see...."
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