Word: underworldly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...KRAYS. The sun set on the British Empire, and the vermin came out to play. In the 1960s these Cockney twins ruled the London underworld with silken sadism. Peter Medak's docudrama underscores the mom-obsessed brutality of the Krays...
This is not to say drugs are not a major problem here as well. Among the largest cash crops in California, marijuana garners its own circles of underworld figures and exploiters...
...wailing. The din itself told a story: the mobilization of the forces of good against those of evil; a climactic conflict; finally, the removal of the dead and wounded. Then a stentorian voice blared an all-points bulletin: "Calling the G-men! Calling all Americans to war on the underworld...
...KRAYS. In the 1950s and '60s, these Cockney twins ruled the London underworld with silken sadism. Peter Medak's brisk docudrama understands the mom-obsessed brutality of the Krays. The sun set on the British Empire, and the vermin came out to play...
What's going on here? Why is Hollywood once again married to the Mob? It's not that the genre is especially popular these days. (The Untouchables was the only gangster blockbuster of the '80s.) Nor is it that the Italian underworld taps a nerve in today's body politic. Drug lords, often black or Hispanic, are the civic scourge of the moment, and they get their movie due only in Abel Ferrara's rancid, megaviolent King of New York, in which a white man (Christopher Walken) leads a rainbow coalition of pushers. Whatever charm the Mafia boss still possesses...