Word: gangsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theory soon gathered support on both sides of the screen. Suddenly the films of Alfred Hitchcock or Orson Welles could be spoken of as works with strands of philosophy running through them, like the plays of Racine. Republic Pictures' westerns and Warner Brothers' gangster films from the '40s were reappraised as examples of directorial brilliance...
...dialogue sounds like a Grade-B gangster movie on late-night television, but the script is from life. It is a chillingly real conversation that took place among three Mafia hoodlums in their hangout. The subject of the session: methods of dispatching associates to a better world. This and other candid peeps at organized crime became available last week when a 2,000-page transcript of FBI tape recordings was filed in Federal District Court in Newark, N.J. The tapes were presented by the district attorney in connection with extortion-conspiracy charges against Simone Rizzo ("Sam the Plumber") De-Cavalcante...
FILM-MAKERS who are also Harvard students eventually encounter a difficult subject: the Harvard Experience. Film being a means of self-expression, kids rightly want their films to be about what most affects them and what they know best. Movies with other subjects-gangster films, horror films-end up as hollow parodies because student directors have no personal involvement in the concerns of the genre...
...executions. According to one informant, who was a charter member, the first squad was organized in 1958. It was a tightly knit group of 16 policemen who rubbed out an average of a hood a week for six years. When their most famous member was finally killed by a gangster, the squad stayed together long enough to avenge his death (the gangster's body was ravaged by some 100 slugs), then gradually went out of business...
Raquel's next projects are Shipment of Tarts, a period comedy, Tilda, a story of a woman chasing her kidnaped son, and We Only Kill Each Other, a biography of Chicago Gangster Bugsy Siegel and his moll Virginia Hill. The roles are hardly calculated to win Academy Awards, but at least they call for more than pouts and poses. "I feel people are trying to bury me in a sea of C cups," she laments. There is little likelihood that she will go under. "Marilyn couldn't fight it because she wasn't strong enough," Raquel theorizes...