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Calling All You Gangsters
Published January 21, 2005 in DVD
By Bubba Craner | Image from Amazon
The real gangster films.
The Warner Gangster Collection
The great people at Warner Brothers have just announced that they have put
together a box set of some of the greatest early gangster films of American
Cinema. It is a collection of James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart films that
is an absolute must for anyone who calls them self a fan of the gangster
genre. The Warner Gangster Collection includes: Little Caesar,
1930; The Public Enemy, 1931; The Petrified Forest, 1936;
Angels With Dirty Faces, 1938; The Roaring Twenties, 1939;
White Heat, 1949. This action-packed mobster collection will be
available on Jan. 25.
James Cagney was one of the greatest actors Hollywood has and will ever see. His Hollywood career spanned from the early 1930's to the mid 1980's, starting and ending with major hits (Public Enemy and Ragtime). Most notably though, his was known as the toughest Gangster in Hollywood and this is no more apparent than in some of the classic films found in this collection.
Humphrey Bogart has always been associated with his outstanding performance
in Casablanca, however he too can turn his gleaming smile into
a face of death, and he does just that in The Petrified Forest
and The Roaring Twenties.
Scarface is a great gangster film, but what most gangster films
fail to capture completely is what these films excel at. Because of censorship
in the early twentieth century these films weren't allowed to be called
gangster or mobster films; it was ill moral to glamorize gangsters then.
These films were categorized as "social problem" films, and that is what
they captured. These films displayed the problems of gangsterism and its
effect on society, mainly youth. These films were ambitious and asked questions.
In what encompasses today's gangster film genre, you don't see this, you
see gangsters making a lot of money and getting the girls and being vindicated
for what they do. They are glamorized.
Anyone who appreciates Scarface will love this box set, and even
for those of you who don't fancy yourself with black and white film will
be seriously stunned at the entertaining storylines and outstanding performances
by some of the greatest actors this world has ever seen.
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Bubba Craner
Sources: Image from Amazon
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