Sentences with phrase «owned by the gangster»

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arsenal is owned by a member (by marriage) of the walmart family with a line in dodgy sports franchises and by an uzbeki gazzilionaire who managed to come out of the gangster capitalism of eastern europe with his state assets in tact!!!

Barrow MP John Woodcock branded his own party «pound - shop gangsters» in a Twitter outburst today prompted by party plans to make his fellow MP Dan Jarvis quit the Commons if he becomes mayor of South Yorkshire.

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.»

Far from being influenced by movie gangsters of the time such as James Cagney and Paul Muni, and despite being enthralled by them, Dillinger is sartorially his own man.

When one of their own is kidnapped by an angry gangster, the Wolf Pack must track down Mr. Chow, who has escaped from prison and is on the run.

In this 1975 release, John Wayne plays Jim Brannigan, a «play by my own rules» Chicago Cop who is sent to groovy 70's London to bring back the notorious gangster Ben Larkin (played by Dirty Harry's mayor John Vernon).

Public Enemies By 2009, Tatum was holding his own alongside such box - office heavyweights as Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, playing Pretty Boy Floyd in the biographical, Depression - era gangster film Public Enemies.

Instead, as we see in the account of his rise to criminal kingpin and «fall» to infamy American Gangster, Lucas used his power and keen business sense to make a fine life for those close to him and a hell for those unfortunate enough not to be supported by him or to have the means to do any better on their own.

Remarking therein that anyone who'd seen a few examples of this relentlessly formalized genre could write one himself, Schrader spoke from experience: his own The Yakuza, touched up a smidge by Robert Towne and formally permissive enough to incorporate some double - dealing American gangsters along with its Japanese pro- and antagonists, looked a likely enough successor to the kung - fu cycle in popularity that Warner Brothers paid a hefty price for the screenplay ($ 300,000, according to Newsweek).

These characters are intimidating in their own ways, distinguishing a story that we've seen redressed over and again by the likes of Martin Scorsese and Brian de Palma, even Michael Mann's Public Enemies in which Depp portrayed another infamous gangster.

Billy and Hans end up kidnapping the wrong pooch when they heist Bonnie, a shih tzu owned by psychopathic gangster Charlie (Woody Harrleson).

In the film, gangster Big Boy Caprice (Pacino, Sea of Love) trying to get a conglomerate of mob bosses to join forces and own the town before the tenacious police, headed by the seemingly incorruptible Dick Tracy (Beatty), snuff them out.

I have not seen the original film, but on her own merits (despite a distracting accent, which also marred her otherwise strong Last Dance work), Stone delivers an appropriately steely but warmly comedic turn as the title character, a gangster's (Jeremy Northam) ex-girlfriend who takes under her wing a young boy (newcomer Jean - Luke Figueroa) whose family was killed by the gangster's crew.

His appetite for old cars, however, might be outmatched by his love for restoring classic yachts such as the 136» Motor Yacht Acania, built in 1930 and once owned by notorious gangster Al Capone.

But the stress of running a business under the thumb of her ex-boyfriend's gangster operation can leave her tense, so she's not ashamed to sample the pleasures offered by her own merchandise from time to time.

Bohemian romance is promoted by Dash Snow's enlarged blurry Polaroids of his young friends behaving wildly, while Michael Vasquez's Impressionistic paintings based on photographs of people and scenes from his own gangster past invoke the myth of the outlaw artist.