Sentences with phrase «played as the gangster»

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Play as a Gangster or Cop.

Not exact matches

It has a reasonably tight script and is well cast, with Warner Baxter playing the lawyer and Myrna Loy as the gangster's moll, a «bad girl» with glittering eyes who he quite understandably falls for.

From 1945 through 1948, he was under contract to Sam Goldwyn, mostly playing secondary roles as gangsters.

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 (1977).

Originally written by James Toback (Two Girls and a Guy) and starring James Caan, this 2014 version, scripted by William Monahan (The Departed), stars Mark Wahlberg as an English professor and a high - stakes gambler who is trying to balance his relationship with his mother (Jessica Lange) and a student (Brie Larson) as he gets involved with a gangster played by The Wire's Michael Kenneth Williams and a loan shark played by John Goodman.

Many handsome leading men lose their seductive confidence as they grow older, but Bachchan is such a industry - defining star that he can do (and often has done) whatever he wants, whether it's scowling pensively throughout a trilogy of «Godfather» - esque gangster films («Sarkar,» «Sarkar Raj» and «Sarkar 3») or playing a Cyrano de Bergerac - like bum who lends his commanding baritone voice to a struggling young movie star whose natural voice isn't sexy enough («Shamitabh»).

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.

Discover why the roaring twenties played the crucial role as the heart and soul of gangster life.

The path to Doug frantically motors the trio all over the city, dealing with Tysonâ $ ™ s animal demands (The Champ nabs big laughs playing his Phil Collins - loving self), random flashes of unlikely gangster violence, and their own bewilderment as they canâ $ ™ t quite grasp the enormity of their evening, frequently stumbling over immeasurable trouble the mild - mannered guys canâ $ ™ t believe they caused.

«Breaking Bad» alum Jesse Plemons plays a central role in the new trailer for «Black Mass,» the upcoming crime drama starring Johnny Depp as gangster James «Whitey» Bulger.

That's as much glamour as you can expect from the this portrait of the mob: emotionally immature boys playing at gangster, oblivious of the reality behind their Tony Montana fantasy.

Damon would play a gangster who has infiltrated the Boston police department as part of its cadet class and has been steadily rising through the ranks.

Its characteristics are unmistakable: rapid - fire dialogue with quips flying as often as bullets, a cadre of contemporary character actors playing gangster, and a deep well of edgy cynicism on which to hang these affectations.

Lou Diamond Phillips plays the young carjacker and mechanic, Ruben Blades has more of a stereotypical role admittedly as the Latino gangster type but damn if he doesn't do it well with those vibrant tones of his.

Exercising some terrible mock trumpet - playing, Rourke stars as washed - up jazz musician Nate Poole, who finds himself on the wrong side of a grudge with gangster Happy Shannon (Murray).

The Brazilian star who played a favela gangster on film and sang Bowie in Portuguese says he makes music to get people thinking as well as dancing

This time he also throws in a nostalgic look at Hollywood by name - dropping some famous stars of the era, but he's just as quick to flash his lack of respect for the movie industry and seems to compare it to the world of east coast gangsters (such as Bobby's brother played by Corey Stoll).

This stylish, star - studded caper comedy stars Uma Thurman (KILL BILL franchise) as Harriet and Tim Roth (THE HATEFUL EIGHT) as Peter, a con - artist couple cooking up a jewel - theft scam in L.A. to pay off sexy gangster Irina (played by Maggie Q).

Strangely, Affleck seems to want to play the noble gangster despite using tropes that paint the gangster as an inevitable lost soul.

Cooper's last film, «Black Mass» — starring Johnny Depp as Boston gangster Whitey Bulger — also played the Toronto film festival.

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.

Friday began with 1955's «Love Me or Leave Me,» directed by Charles Vidor and starring Doris Day as real - life torch singer Ruth Etting, married to a gangster, played by James Cagney.

This one appears to be full of double crossing since it features Foxx playing an undercover detective named Vincent Downs, posing as a corrupt cop, who gets the raw end of a bad deal when his son is kidnapped by one of the gangsters (Scoot McNairy) Downs has been working with.

Former «Saturday Night Live» favorite Jason Sudeikis stars opposite Jennifer Aniston, playing a pot dealer forced by gangsters to smuggle drugs across the border with the help of Aniston's stripper, who poses as his wife, and two hapless teens who pretend to be their kids.

Ant - Man is out now, with Peyton Reed (Down with Love) directing a cast that includes Paul Rudd (I Love You, Man) as Scott Lang, Michael Douglas (Behind The Candelabra) as Dr. Hank Pym, Evangeline Lilly (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug) as Hope Van Dyne, Corey Stoll (House of Cards) as Darren Cross / Yellowjacket, John Slattery (Iron Man 2) as Howard Stark, Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger) as Peggy Carter, Anthony Mackie (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) as Sam Wilson / Falcon, Judy Greer (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) as Maggie, Bobby Cannavale (The Long Play) as Paxton, Michael Peña (American Hustle) as Luis, Abby Ryder Fortson (Togetherness) as Cassie Lang, David Dastmalchian (The Dark Knight) as Kurt, Wood Harris (The Wire) as Gale, T.I. (American Gangster) as Dave and Martin Donovan (Inherent Vice) as Mitchell Carson.

The concept behind Brick sounds just as ridiculous as the «children as gangsters» idea from Alan Parker's Bugsy Malone, but Johnson's film plays out almost entirely poker faced.

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.

Dane DeHaan is the sleeper stand - out as a crippled friend of the brothers; Gary Oldman turns up to play, adorably, at American gangster.

«Chin» is anchored by its two wonderful lead performers, Corey Stoll playing the somewhat dim but well - intentioned pugilist Bud and Billy Crudup, who appears as the quietly menacing gangster.

He's playing Shia LaBoeuf «s rickets - stricken best friend in John Hillcoat «s Prohibition - era gangster tale «Lawless,» and will follow that up swiftly with Derek Cianfrance «s crime tale «The Place Beyond the Pines,» in which he'll star in the film's final segment as the son of Ryan Gosling «s motorcycle stunt rider, continuing the generational feud with the son of the cop - turned politician (Bradley Cooper) who tormented his father.

The details: Tom Hardy plays a dual role as Ronnie and Reggie Kray, the identical twins who became London's most notorious gangsters in the 1960s, hobnobbing with the famous and powerful and eventually becoming tabloid celebrities in their own right.

Gosling plays a gangster exiled in Thailand who manages a Thai boxing club as a front for a drug operation.

The drama will see Sean Penn play the notorious gangster, Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin as two cops trying to bring him down, and Emma Stone as the femme fatale no doubt coming between them.

Nuanced applies as well to Macdonald's body of work, whether as a bereft parent in Child, a woman threatened by a hired killer in No Country for Old Men, a gangster's wife in Boardwalk Empire or, yes, even the naive maid she played in «Gosford Park.»

A standard gangster story on its surface, The Drop patiently develops some interesting ideas as it progresses, minimizing the focus on money and playing up the concept of a gangster demimonde fueled primarily by insecurity, with pointless squabbles over reputation and petty personal grudges keeping the cycle of violence flowing.

Han is separated from his first love, Qi» ra, and takes up with his second, the Millenium Falcon, to win her freedom from the Crimson Dawn gangster Dryden Vos, played by Paul Bettany as more whimsical and mercurial than menacing.

«Passion Play» is an uneasy mix — a sort of David Lynch noir — but you can do worse than a movie that features Megan Fox stripped down to her tattoos and Bill Murray as a pinstriped gangster who says things like, «Kill him and bring her back here.»

Imagine, for example, the scary gangster played by George Raft in «Some Like It Hot» also being presented as cute, goofy and vulnerable.

Gleeson will play Gabriel O'Malley, an intense Vietnam vet who works for the neighborhood gangsters as a hitman before skipping town to avoid the police.

John Connolly, played by Joel Edgerton (Warrior, Exodus), grew up on the same streets as Bulger and wasn't really corrupted by money but instead by a little brother like affection and admiration that he held for the gangster.

Bogart proved his mettle as a lead actor in The Maltese Falcon and High Sierra but here he showed he could play the romantic lead, something studio heads were more than skeptical of considering he'd spent nearly a decade as a heavy in gangster pictures.

He has often played men who can find humor in difficult circumstances — think of his fire - breathing turn as the villainous Detective Harris in Training Day, or the charming criminal Frank Lucas in American Gangster — but he's never really done a straight comedy.

Although Chazelle should get the lion's share of the credit as to why the film works, that shouldn't take away from the phenomenal performances, not only in acting, but also in singing, dancing, and playing instruments, to Crazy Stupid Love and Gangster Squad cast - mates Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, who took over the roles from the originally pitched Emma Watson (who was iffy on the project before ultimately being unavailable) and Whiplash star Miles Teller (who, reportedly, lost the gig trying to stall for a bigger paycheck).

Meanwhile, Smith will play a judge in the movie, with Crowe lined up as a gangster, Pearly Soames.

The prospect of Tom Hardy playing dual roles as Ronnie and Reggie Kray, two legendary (hence the name) East London gangsters from the 1960's, seems like a slam dunk.

The Gambler stars John Goodman, Brie Larson, as Mark Wahlberg plays a professor of literature who has a gambling problem and runs into a group of gangsters that threaten more than his life.

No other film on the list inspired such low expectations from me before viewing it, but celebrated Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has kick - started the played - out Brit gangster genre with a dose of existential neurosis, refreshingly languid pacing and ream upon ream of rapid - fire, ferociously literary dialogue that credits its audience with as much intelligence as its audience.

There's also a screening of 1955's «Love Me or Leave Me,» a rare gem, directed by Charles Vidor and starring Doris Day as real - life torch singer Ruth Etting, married to a gangster, played by James Cagney.

Tom Hardy plays Bob, a former criminal and current bartender working at a bar that serves as a money «drop» for local gangsters.