what other genre of movies you wacth?

[zeus]

except from old school kung fu,i collect spaghetti westerns,and recently started on eurocrime,eurospy,from italy
and the occasional sword and sandals from the 60'
i find pre-80 action films more entertaining

[peter cannon THUNDERBOLT]

i like to watch godzilla movies and superhero films

[peter cannon THUNDERBOLT]

i forgot to mention earlier i also lie old amazon movies and cliffhanger style[loeg sky captain] movies

[kenichiku]

Been revisiting rural depression era gangster flicks lately. All spawned off Penn's 'Bonnie & Clyde'. Corman, NG, AIP, all fast, cheap & out of control:

Big Bad Mama
Boxcar Bertha
Bloddy Mama
Crazy Mama
Dillinger (Oates)
Capone (Gazzara)
Melvin Purvis G-Man (TV flick)

[sevenhooks]

Yeah, I LOVED John Milius' Dillingr. Warren Oates was no f#cking joke!!
Out of those other films you listed, which comes close to being on that films level IYO???

[kenichiku]

These were all low budget B pictures but the Corman AIs all played and felt the same; equal doses of violence, sex & comedy but you never took it all too seriously.

To answer your question, I would have to say Ben Gazzara hamming 'Capone' up with Susan Blakely, Sly Stallone and John Cassavettes but in the end, I did enjoy Milius' film better. Madman Gazzara had Capone's pathology down pat with his syphillis infected psyche but Oates had the integrity of a pit bull and was a natural with his straw hat & tommy gun. I mean VD & the IRS took Capone down but there was only one way to put Dillinger down! The casting was superb: Ben Johnson as Purvis, Richard Dreyfuss as Baby Face Nelson, Harry Dean Stanton, Michelle Phillips & Cloris Leachman as Dillinger's theatre dates (although I had a thing for Pam Sue Martin as 'The Lady In Red' written by John Sayles for exploitation's sake alone!)

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