Sentences with phrase «gangster picture set»

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«Gangster Squad» Synopsis: Based on a series of articles in the L.A. Times, the story follows a specialized L.A.P.D. unit set up in the «40s to fight the growing influence of the East Coast Mafia, namely from that infamous gangster Mickey Cohen, a mogul who started as muscle for Al Capone in Chicago What You Need To Know: Credit to Warner Bros. for going with the inspired choice of «Zombieland» and «30 Minutes Or Less» director Ruben Fleischer to tackle what sounds like a sprawling, period L.A. - set gangster Gangster Squad» Synopsis: Based on a series of articles in the L.A. Times, the story follows a specialized L.A.P.D. unit set up in the «40s to fight the growing influence of the East Coast Mafia, namely from that infamous gangster Mickey Cohen, a mogul who started as muscle for Al Capone in Chicago What You Need To Know: Credit to Warner Bros. for going with the inspired choice of «Zombieland» and «30 Minutes Or Less» director Ruben Fleischer to tackle what sounds like a sprawling, period L.A. - set gangster gangster Mickey Cohen, a mogul who started as muscle for Al Capone in Chicago What You Need To Know: Credit to Warner Bros. for going with the inspired choice of «Zombieland» and «30 Minutes Or Less» director Ruben Fleischer to tackle what sounds like a sprawling, period L.A. - set gangster gangster picture.

Set in 1949 Los Angeles, the picture, which claims to be «based on a true story» but turns out to be as authentic as The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, finds William Parker (Nick Nolte), the city's controversial chief of police (who didn't actually obtain the post until a year after the movie's setting, but never mind), deciding that the best way to stop gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) from taking over the entire city is to organize an elite team to work outside the law in an attempt to bring him down.

The six - disc set also features Cagney in Picture Snatcher (1933) and Mayor Of Hell (1933), Cagney co-starring with Edward G. Robinson in Smart Money (1931), Robinson in Brother Orchid (1940), and Humphrey Bogart in Black Legion (1937), which is more social drama than gangster film but can fit the bill in pinch.

He described this, his penultimate film, as a digest of the nineteen definitive underworld set - ups that could be found in John Huston's picture of doomed gangsters, The Asphalt Jungle.