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Release Date: 1976
Cast: Bonnie Langford, Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger, Paul Chirelstein, Davidson Knight, Andrew Paul, Dexter Fletcher, John Cassisi, Paul Williams, Sheridan Russell, Martin Lev, Phil Daniels ...MORE
Cast: Bonnie Langford, Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger, Paul Chirelstein, Davidson Knight, Andrew Paul, Dexter Fletcher, John Cassisi, Paul Williams, Sheridan Russell, Martin Lev, Phil Daniels, Albin Humpty Jenkins, Jodie Foster, Paul J. Murphy ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Musical, Crime Fiction, Comedy, Gangster, Music, Family, Musical Comedy, Children'S, Parody
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 British musical film, very loosely based on events in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931 in the Prohibition era, specifically the exploits of gangsters like Al Capone and Bugs Moran, as dramatized in cinema. Featuring only child actors (with singing voices provided by adults), director Alan Parker lightened the subject matter considerably for the children's market; the film received a G rating.
The film was Parker's feature-length directorial debut, introduced actor Scott Baio, and featured veteran actress (at age 13) Jodie Foster.
The film opens with a brief... MORE
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 British musical film, very loosely based on events in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931 in the Prohibition era, specifically the exploits of gangsters like Al Capone and Bugs Moran, as dramatized in cinema. Featuring only child actors (with singing voices provided by adults), director Alan Parker lightened the subject matter considerably for the children's market; the film received a G rating.
The film was Parker's feature-length directorial debut, introduced actor Scott Baio, and featured veteran actress (at age 13) Jodie Foster.
The film opens with a brief action sequence in which a mobster is "splurged" by members of Dandy Dan's gang, using rapid-fire custard-shooting "splurge guns". Once splurged, a kid is "all washed up" and his career in crime is over—the splurged gangsters are never shown as dead or even unconscious, merely "finished".
At Fat Sam's (John Cassisi) speakeasy, there is much dancing and singing, but Fat Sam himself is worried about his rival Dandy Dan. Blousey Brown (Florrie Dugger), an aspiring singer, has come for an audition, but Sam is too distracted. Bugsy Malone (Scott Baio), a boxing promoter with no money, meets Blousey when he LESS
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