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Ultimate Gangster Collection (Blu-ray disc, Boxed set)
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Ultimate Gangster Collection (Blu-ray disc, Boxed set)
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Loot Price R384
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Collection of contemporary gangster films. In 'Mean Streets' (1973)
four Italian-Americans from New York's lower East Side hang around
at a local bar. Charlie (Harvey Keitel), the most responsible of
the group, tries to protect his girlfriend's cousin, Johnny Boy
(Robert De Niro), from the local debt collectors, but his young
charge seems determined to live fast and die young. Heavily
influenced by the French New Wave, 'Mean Streets' provided the
first high-profile success for director Martin Scorsese and star De
Niro. In 'Scarface' (1983), up-and-coming gangster Tony Montana (Al
Pacino) arrives in Miami as a Cuban refugee. With his friend Manny
(Stephen Bauer), Tony carries out a hit on a politician, earning
him the gratitude of drug dealer Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia). Tony
rises rapidly in the 'organization', but courts disaster when he
becomes involved with Lopez's cocaine-addicted wife, Elvira
(Michelle Pfeiffer). In 'Carlito's Way' (1993), Carlito (Pacino) is
a Hispanic drugs boss just released from prison. Determined to go
straight and move to the Bahamas with his girlfriend, Gail
(Penelope Ann Miller), Carlito is tempted back to the wrong side of
the law by his lawyer, nerdish coke-head David Kleinfeld (Sean
Penn), for 'one last job'. Brian De Palma directs this visually
eloquent film about a man's inevitable tragic demise with his
familiar penchant for the big set piece and violent action. In
'Casino' (1995), Sam 'Ace' Rothstein (De Niro) is the mob's
frontman for a billion dollar Las Vegas casino. The story begins in
1973; Ace falls for hooker Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), while
boyhood companion Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) is appointed as his
muscle at the club. Over the years various jealousies surface and
erupt in a series of violent betrayals and, ultimately, the
destruction of Rothstein's empire. In 'American Gangster' (2007),
when his boss dies, underworld driver Frank Lucas (Denzel
Washington) seizes his chance and begins to build his own criminal
empire. Utilising the bodies of dead US soldiers, Lucas begins
importing heroin direct from South-East Asia, increasing purity on
the street, and undercutting his rivals in one swoop. Before long
he's amassed a fortune, bringing him to the attention of maverick
policeman Ritchie Roberts (Russell Crowe), an honest cop in an
otherwise corrupt force, who makes it his business to shut Lucas
down. Finally, in 'Public Enemies' (2009), set in 1930s gangland
America, Johnny Depp stars as the charismatic bank robber John
Dillinger. Dillinger's audacious raids and subsequent jailbreaks
thrilled the American public as their sympathy for the banks that
had plunged the country into Depression reached an all-time low.
Despite his status as a folk hero, Dillinger was declared 'Public
Enemy Number One' by J. Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup) and became the
prime target of Hoover's fledgling FBI, headed by Melvin Purvis
(Christian Bale). Marion Cotillard co-stars as gangster's moll
Billie Frechette.
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