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Howard Browne (written by)
Release Date:
16 April 1975 (USA) more
Tagline:
The man who made the twenties roar! Now, after 45 years, his true story can be told!
Plot:
The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years... more | add synopsis
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Roger Corman: Scorsese, Stallone, Sayles, and other A-listers talk about the B-movie king
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 13 November 2009, 12:48 PM, PST)
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Okay film, but unhistorical and with poor casting. more (12 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Ben Gazzara | ... | Al Capone | |
| Harry Guardino | ... | Johnny Torrio | |
| Susan Blakely | ... | Iris Crawford | |
| Sylvester Stallone | ... | Frank Nitti | |
| John Cassavetes | ... | Frankie Yale | |
| Frank Campanella | ... | Big Jim Colosimo | |
| John Orchard | ... | Dion O'Banion | |
| Carmen Argenziano | ... | Jack McGurn | |
| George Chandler | ... | Robert E. Crowe | |
| John Davis Chandler | ... | Hymie Weiss (as John D. Chandler) | |
| Royal Dano | ... | Anton J. Cermak | |
| Joe De Nicola | ... | Charles Fischetti | |
| Angelo Grisanti | ... | Angelo Genna | |
| Peter Maloney | ... | Jake Guzik | |
| Dick Miller | ... | Joe Pryor |
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USA:101 min
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Australia:MA (TV rating) | UK:18 (re-rating) (1990) | UK:X (original rating) | Germany:16 (re-rating) (2006) | West Germany:18 (original rating) | Finland:K-18 (self applied) (uncut) (2007) | Finland:K-18 (cut) (1975) | Norway:18 | Sweden:15 | USA:R
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Revealing mistakes: During the car chase, supposedly in the middle of Chicago, towering green mountains can be seen in the near distance at the ends of some streets, clearly indicating it's a studio set in California. more
Quotes:
Capone:
There should be a law against women drinking.
Crawford:
Well, I think there is.
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Edited from The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) more
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There are enough pictures of Alphonse Capone available so that we know exactly what he looked like. Even though Ben Gazzara is a good actor, I couldn't watch this without thinking, "Not Capone, must be a different character of the same name." ;-)
Although a brutal man, Capone had enormous sense. He preferred making money to shooting down rivals, and always tried to negotiate first. He valued loyalty above all else, and he "broke the mold" by insisting that the clannish, ethnic gang style of old was gone and that a man's ethnic background ought to have no bearing in the outfit.
According to a recent biographer, Capone feared being shot and dying alone in the street more than anything else. Unlike in this film, he died as he had hoped: in bed surrounded by his family.
I've always been saddened by the thought that if Capone had wanted to go legit from the start, he could have done it. With his organizational skills he could have been anything he wished.