Sentences with phrase «as a gangster in»

Jimmy Cagney is just as touch, reckless and compelling as an FBI agent as he is as a gangster in tis fast - moving Warner feature which was embraced by J. Edgar Hoover

Both Robinson and Fred MacMurray played roles against type (Robinson gained notoriety for his role as a gangster in Little Caesar (1930), and MacMurray had previously played genial, lightweight, good - guy roles in comedies)- and their performances represented some of their best career work.

Enjoyable for a good 15 minutes or so, mostly due to the scene - stealing powers of the adorable, much - coveted kitty whose name gives the movie its title, this is otherwise a stale, repetitive effort whose one - joke premise — two suburban buddies forced to pass themselves off as gangsters in a grimy underworld where they clearly don't belong — never achieves comic liftoff, much less the richly subversive dimensions typical of Key and Peele's best work.

Characters Reporter Michael Sangiacomo writes about the many cameo appearances he has made in comics, most recently as a gangster in the third issue of The United States of Murder, by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming.

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The controversy he refers to is the portrayal of Italian - Americans in the film as gangsters.

Summary: Two brothers are pitted against one another in an Irish neighborhood, as one is a politician and the other a gangster.

In entertainment, Texas Guinan, a former silent film star from Waco, Texas, partnered with a gangster and opened one of Manhattan's first nightclubs, starring as its raucous, wisecracking hostess.

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A cherubic British cartoon character has become an unlikely target of China's censors as fans use her porcine likeness in rap videos and «gangster» tattoos.

For instance, in 1934, as a response to the rise of organized crime and gangster culture, Congress passed what was known as the National Firearms Act.

He rose to fame as bandleader at Harlem's Cotton Club, run by gangster Owney Madden, where well - heeled white patrons would go «slumming» and enjoy (in the words of a Harold Arlen song that made its debut at the club):

If I was living on the wrong path leading to death with all the dumb things I was doing like listening to bad music, goofing around in class, cussing, acting like I was a gangster, wanting to try drugs, being suicidal and being around with close friends that are doing the bad then he can change you too because, I tell you that if you think that your life will go for the worst if you accept them then you're wrong because, if you have faith in him and you accept him as your savior and follow his ways then he has your road all planned out, he's going to give you such blessings and a happiness and love that compares to none others.

Ted Nugent: Trayvon Martin was a «dope smoking, racist gangsta wannabe» ANSWER - Ted Nugent IS a dope smoking white as an empty ghost sack of maggots in my garbage racist gangster: with maggot sack of garbage police friends all over the U.S..

In a lawsuit filed last year in Tampa federal court by Ganis against Lightning ownership, management and former team lawyer David LeFevre, Okubo is described by one potential Japanese source of financing for Tampa Bay as a «gangster.&raquIn a lawsuit filed last year in Tampa federal court by Ganis against Lightning ownership, management and former team lawyer David LeFevre, Okubo is described by one potential Japanese source of financing for Tampa Bay as a «gangster.&raquin Tampa federal court by Ganis against Lightning ownership, management and former team lawyer David LeFevre, Okubo is described by one potential Japanese source of financing for Tampa Bay as a «gangster.»

Lightning Partners, Ltd., as the franchise is formally known, has a mystery owner from Japan named Takashi Okubo, who bought a limited stake in the team in»90 through his Tokyo golf resorts company, Kokusai Green, and is identified by a source in one lawsuit as being a «gangster.»

I don't doubt you had a decent time as a tourist but open your eyes to what goes on in the world, courtesy of corrupt Russia, run by a deranged and hedonistic gangster, young man.

They can be gangsters or warlords or porn Barron's as long as they pump the money in to the team.

Briefing journalists on the incident, Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Juliana Obeng, said the complainant during his report to police mentioned Charles Sarpong alias Gangster, who he knows in the community neighborhood as one of the suspects.

We - the people in suits - often see hoodies as aggressive, the uniform of a rebel army of young gangsters.

In the film «The Godfather,» Vito Corleone explains to a fellow gangster that the politicians on his payroll would turn against him if he went into the narcotics business and got out of gambling, «which they regard as a harmless vice.»

Here's the full trailer of She's Dating The Gangster as Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla portray the characters of the best selling novel Prince Harry's girlfriend appears in newly released pictures from London - based 2015 gangster movie AntiGangster as Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla portray the characters of the best selling novel Prince Harry's girlfriend appears in newly released pictures from London - based 2015 gangster movie Antigangster movie Anti-Social.

Here's the full trailer of She's Dating The Gangster as Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla portray the characters of the best selling novel Chick Goes Off On The Man She's Dating After She Found Out He Lives In A Storage Unit But Has A Nice Car!

The movie, which follows Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) as they're forced to track down Ken Jeong's nefarious Mr. Chow by a ruthless gangster (John Goodman's Marshall), is actually at its best in its opening half hour, as filmmaker Todd Phillips has infused the proceedings with an affable feel that compensates for the lack of wholeheartedly funny elements.

Be it Enos reprising her thankless wife role from «Gangster Squad,» to Ludi Boeken as an exposition - dumping Mossad agent, to Peter Capaldi and Ruth Negga as scientists so thankless they're literally credited as Scientists despite being central to the third act, most of the players that crop up on Pitt's travels are perfunctory at best (to say nothing of Matthew Fox, inexplicably fifth - billed in a part that's not so much a cameo as a day - player gig — presumably he has more left on the cutting room floor).

It's impossible not to laugh as the Gingerbread Man, two of his little baked legs cruelly broken off at the knee, scowls like a hard - boiled gangster at Farquaad, who's captured him in the hopes of gleaning information about the renegade storybook characters.

«Lucy» is ordinary as a gangster story, exceptional in its special effects, but ultimately serving no realistic point since a drug that increases our brain power — such a chemical may indeed be in our future — may give us 4.0 averages in college but will not likely be able to talk the bullets out of a gun.

Beyond O'Neill (excellent in his role), the cast includes Józef Pawlowski (Warsaw» 44) as Bartosz — that reformed gangster — and Susan Lynch (Here and Now) as the main antagonist, among many others in the strong ensemble.

Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading) stars as Gerry Lane, a former field investigator for the United Nations who finds himself running for his life in Philadelphia, along with his wife (Enos, Gangster Squad) and two daughters, as a major viral pandemic that causes infected people to turn into raging, mindless «zombies» whose only purpose is to infect the uninfected by biting them.

In films from 1936, he was usually typecast as an abrasive, cigar - chomping detective, gangster or machine politician.

In this capacity, Fausto Tozzi played supporting roles in such internationally distributed films as The Wonders of Aladdin (1960)(as the cowardly Grand Vizier), Constantine and the Cross (1961), The Agony and the Ecstacy (1965)(as one of the foremen overseeing the Vatican projects of Michelangelo), The Valachi Papers (1972)(as notorious gangster Albert Anastasia), Crazy Joe (1974) and March or Die (1977In this capacity, Fausto Tozzi played supporting roles in such internationally distributed films as The Wonders of Aladdin (1960)(as the cowardly Grand Vizier), Constantine and the Cross (1961), The Agony and the Ecstacy (1965)(as one of the foremen overseeing the Vatican projects of Michelangelo), The Valachi Papers (1972)(as notorious gangster Albert Anastasia), Crazy Joe (1974) and March or Die (1977in such internationally distributed films as The Wonders of Aladdin (1960)(as the cowardly Grand Vizier), Constantine and the Cross (1961), The Agony and the Ecstacy (1965)(as one of the foremen overseeing the Vatican projects of Michelangelo), The Valachi Papers (1972)(as notorious gangster Albert Anastasia), Crazy Joe (1974) and March or Die (1977).

There's the easy, lazy trafficking in broad ethnic caricature — Mike Epps as a black drug dealer, Ken Jeong as a prancing, lisping Asian gangster known as Mr. Chow — which is decked out in flimsy air quotes to make it seem as if the movie is making fun of racism.

In this belated prequel to director Brian De Palma's 1993 crime drama, gangster Carlito Brigante (Jay Hernandez) rises through the ranks of the New York underworld to establish himself as Spanish Harlem's most powerful kingpin.

He also occasionally accepted such contemporary minor roles as a priest in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) and a gangster in Accidents Will Happen (1939).

A typically crass and sexist gangster comedy from Eddie Murphy that's nowhere near as good as A Rage In Harlem (which is only average itself...)

Designed as star vehicle for Norma Shearer, this sensationalistic melodrama about a brutal gangster (the young Clark Gable) and boozy lawyer could not have been made after 1934, when the rigid Production Code was put in effect.

What a stellar cast we have in Lawless, (Gary Oldman) as the gangster, (Guy Pearce) as the violent deputy from Chicago, (Tom Hardy) as the oldest bondurent brother, (Jessica Chastain) as the head waitress at the Bondurants restaurant, then finally (Shia LeBeouf) as the lead actor and most

This is a sports film and a gangster flick in one, teased with the satire of a mockumentary but fueled by the frisson that this all happened pretty much as articulated.

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After being typecast as a gangster he gradually expanded the scope of his roles, and, in the»40s, gave memorable «good guy» performances as in a number of psychological dramas; he played federal agents, scientists, Biblical characters, business men, bank clerks, among other characters.

Most of his screen characters seemed destined for an early and unpleasant demise, as witness the duplicitous Dr. Kemp in The Invisible Man (1933) and retired gangster McKay in G - Men (1935).

Widowed in 1934, she entered films in 1937, repeating her Broadway stage role as the gangster's mother in Dead End (1937).

What a stellar cast we have in Lawless, (Gary Oldman) as the gangster, (Guy Pearce) as the violent deputy from Chicago, (Tom Hardy) as the oldest bondurent brother, (Jessica Chastain) as the head waitress at the Bondurants restaurant, then finally (Shia LeBeouf) as the lead actor and most developed character in the film.

Much as «Live by Night» did with a period gangster film, Red Sparrow takes its compelling potential and fails to deliver in almost every respect.

Set in the world of French gangsters, the film follows François (Karim Leklou) as he tries to make a deal in Spain to earn back all of his hard - earned money that his mother (Isabelle Adjani) has gambled away.

Nick DeMaio is an aspiring actor who is perpetually typecast as «Gangster Number 3» in films about the Mob.

As it happens, a handful of gangsters led by the sexy but dangerous Riley (Carmen Electra) have learned that Jude's valuables are in Harlan's car, and they'll stop at nothing to get them back, including kidnapping Tuesday.

Typecast once again as a gangster — this time in real life — Nick has to prove his mettle, both onstage and off.

In talking about his cops - versus - Russian - gangsters movie We Own the Night, the writer and director James Gray cites the ancient Greeks» idea «that one's life is shaped primarily by forces outside of one's control, as if the gods had dealt each person a fate — a destiny.»

Lindsey: You mean this isn't the first time a crime lord asked you to kill the gay son of a rival gangster to pay off a debt that belongs to a friend whose place you're staying in as a result of losing your job, your apartment and finding your girlfriend in bed with another guy?

In 2010 she was cast as the romantic interest for Nucky Thompson, the prohibition era gangster in the award - winning HBO series Boardwalk EmpirIn 2010 she was cast as the romantic interest for Nucky Thompson, the prohibition era gangster in the award - winning HBO series Boardwalk Empirin the award - winning HBO series Boardwalk Empire.