All Movies Tagged gangster (Dieselpunks) - Dieselpunks

Green Hornet - The Original

2011-05-07T15:37:46.570Z

The Green Hornet debuted as a radio drama in January 1936. He is a masked hero, who pretends to be a criminal in order to infiltrate the cities underworld. The Green Hornet's alter ego, Britt Reid, a respectable member of community, is publisher of the Daily Sentinel newspaper. He is also the great-nephew of John Reid, the Lone Ranger.

The Green Hornet's primary tools are his gas-gun and an incredibly fast, gadget laden, car named the Black Beauty. They were invented by his partner and sidekick, Kato.

The Green Hornet was created by George Trendle an Fran Striker. 3d Model created by John Picha.

The Original Green Hornet's Gas Gun

2011-05-07T15:35:50.574Z

This gas gun was originally featured in the 1940 Universal serials, The Green Hornet, and The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

The gas gun was invented by Kato for the Green Hornet. He modified the body of a German Mauser into a high-pressure, close-range, non-lethal sidearm. It fires a pellet that explodes on impact releasing a cloud of gas. Once inhaled by the target, they instantly fall into a deep sleep. The sleep gas gun is the Green Hornet's primary weapon.

3d model created by John Picha.

Bugsy Malone (1976)

2009-08-30T19:59:25.623Z

A pint-sized cast illuminates this musical that is unlike any other ever made. Set in 1929 New York City, Bugsy Malone captures a flashy world of would-be hoodlums, showgirls, and dreamers - all played by child actors! As Tallulah, the sassy girlfriend of the owner of Fat Sam's Grand Slam Speakeasy, future superstar Jodie Foster dances and sings her way into our hearts. Award-winning pop composer Paul Williams wrote the words and music for this thoroughly delightful movie.

Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

2009-07-06T17:48:18.724Z

Orphans Edward "Blackie" Gallagher and Jim Wade are lifelong friends who take different paths in life. Blackie thrives on gambling and grows up to be a hard-nosed racketeer. Bookworm Wade becomes a D.A. vying for the Governorship. When Blackie's girlfriend Eleanor leaves him and marries the more down to earth Wade, Blackie harbors no resentment. In fact, their friendship is so strong that Blackie murders an attorney threatening to derail Wade's bid to become Governor. The morally straight Wade's last job as D.A. is to convict his friend of the murder, and send him to the electric chair. After he becomes Governor, Wade has the authority to commute Blackie's death sentence-- a decision that pits his high moral ethics against a lifelong friendship.

Key Largo (1948)

2009-07-06T17:39:17.969Z

Richard Brooks and John Huston's screenplay for Huston's Key Largo eschews the lofty blank verse of Maxwell Anderson's original play, concentrating instead on the simmering tensions among the many characters. Humphrey Bogart plays Frank McCloud, an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in Florida, there to meet Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall), the wife of his deceased war buddy. Arriving at a tumbledown hotel managed by Nora's father-in-law James Temple (Lionel Barrymore), McCloud discovers that the establishment has been taken over by exiled gangster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) and what's left of his mob. Also in attendance is Gaye Dawn (Claire Trevor), Rocco's alcoholic girlfriend. While the others bristle at the thought of being held at bay by the gangsters, the disillusioned McCloud refuses to get involved: "One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for." As he awaits a contact who is bringing him enough money to skip the country, Rocco is responsible for the deaths of a deputy sheriff and two local Indian youth. Unwilling to take a stand before these tragedies, McCloud finally comes to realize that Rocco is a beast who must be destroyed. To save the others from harm, McCloud agrees to pilot Rocco's boat to Cuba through the storm-tossed waters. Just before McCloud leaves, Gaye Dawn slips him a gun -- which leads to the deadly final confrontation between McCloud and Rocco. His resolve to go on living renewed by this cathartic experience, McCloud heads back to Nora, with whom he's fallen in love. Claire Trevor's virtuoso performance as a besotted ex-nightclub singer won her an Academy Award -- as predicted by her admiring fellow actors, who watched her go through several very difficult scenes in long, uninterrupted takes. While Key Largo sags a bit during its more verbose passages, on a visual level the film is one of the best and most evocative examples of the "film noir" school. Director: John Huston Writing: Maxwell Anderson (play), Richard Brooks, John Huston Producer: Jerry Wald Score: Max Steiner Cinematography: Karl Freund Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, John Rodney, Marc Lawrence, Dan Seymour, Monte Blue, William Haade