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Saturday, July 25th, 2020

AFI's Top 10 Gangster

AFI defines the “gangster film” as a genre that centers on organized crime or maverick criminals in a twentieth century setting.


Which of these is your favorite "gangster" film?

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls085835115
Live Poll:  https://www.imdb.com/poll/khj4CoaQOSI/

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First, look in the related polls section of this page. Kyle Perez did one on this topic 3 years ago.
Secondly, I don’t believe films and even the actual criminals themselves, who were small time hoods who ran around with a gang or ‘Crew’ traveling from place to place pulling small one time jobs, like bank robberies, (“White Heat” and “Bonnie and Clyde”) should even be put into the same category with films, or history too, of much larger and more organized criminal organizations (Mania, drug cartels, street gangs) that stayed in one place and ran long time running crimes like dealing drugs, and such, like “The Godfather” and “Scarface”. Two different types organizations - two different types of crimes and criminals. I believe that “White Heat”, “Bonnie and Clyde”, “Dillinger” fit better with films about old west criminal gangs like “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, “Young Guns”, the James Gang (Frank and Jessie James), “Night Passage”, and “The Wild Bunch”. And maybe add “Once Upon A Time in the West”.
Off your list, my favorite is “Once upon a Time in America” despite it’s obscure ending and annoying long ringing phone.
On your list: “The Public Enemy”.

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Or better yet, they the small time gangs fit better with heist films. The remake of “The Italian Job” shows a crew that has worked together in more than one job around the world. They say it in the movie.

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That was suppose to say Mafia, not “Mania”. I hate auto correct. It wasn’t even close!

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First, look in the related polls section of this page. Kyle Perez did one on this topic 3 years ago.
His poll wasn't one the same subject, Live Poll: Favorite Gangster in AFI's Top 10 Gangster Films is about the Favorite Gangster in Gangster Films not about the Favorite Gangster Film.

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Wow, what a difficult choice. The results should be interesting. 'Quite a few great films but I'd go with Pulp Fiction. 

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i would go with white heat...and if the italian job were to be added, please make it the original...the remake was horrble....

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