Jeremy is an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet. He'll gladly watch and write about almost anything, from old Godzilla films to gangster flicks to samurai movies to classic musicals to the French New Wave to the MCU... well, maybe not the Disney+ shows.
For decades now, movies about gangsters have been exceedingly popular, and some of the very best gangster movies also rank among the greatest films - from any genre - of all time. Gangster movies can be seen as a sub-genre of the crime genre, with such films tending to focus on organized crime, conflicts between or within gangs, and explorations of rules and regulations that exist within unofficial/illegal groups not recognized by the law.
9 "You slap me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize." 'Angels with Dirty Faces' Angels with Dirty Faces is an old-school gangster movie that still holds up well, benefiting from the fact that it stars the likes of James Cagneyand Humphrey Bogart, of course.
It's a movie that marks the only time Scorsese’s directed Jack Nicholson, and like Nicholson tends to do, he steals much of The Departed and gets some of the film’s best lines. Frank Costello gets some great boastful dialogue throughout, and those lines coupled with his bizarre and alarming behavior make him rank up there as one of Nicholson’s best villains .
The best line of White Heat comes right near the end, so while describing it might sound like it could be a spoiler, it’s not too surprising that a gangster movie like White Heat ends the way it does. "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" is the final thing Cagney’s Arthur "Cody" Jarrett says before being consumed by a huge explosion during his fiery last stand, and it’s an unbelievably effective way to conclude a wild gangster film.
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