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3 unusual facts about Gangster


Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema

The story begins with Kunene and his friend Zakes as teenagers living in the Soweto Township.

Kunene becomes a Robin Hood figure, gaining the title "The Hoodlum of Hillbrow".

Jaque Mate

The Jaque Mate persona was inspired by the 1920s and 1930s Chicago Gangster scene, complete with black suit and fedora hat, in addition to a black mask with white chess pieces on it.


Angri

It was the native town of Teresina Raiola, who, after emigrating to the United States and marrying, became the mother of Al Capone, the future American gangster.

Armitage Trail

Armitage Trail (1902-1930) was an American crime writer best known for his 1929 novel Scarface, depicting the rise of gangster Al Capone, which was adapted into the 1932 film Scarface directed by Howard Hawks.

Babloo Prithiveeraj

He also played a major role in the Tamil blockbuster Payanam based on a hijack incident directed by Radha Mohan and as a gangster in the film Vaaranam Aayiram starring Suriya and Sameera Reddy with Gautham Menon.

Baby Buggy Bunny

The story is about a dwarf gangster named "Babyface" Finster (a play on words on Baby Face Nelson) who, after a clever bank robbery, loses his ill-gotten gains down Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole, forcing him to don the disguise of an orphan baby to get it back.

Benjamin Eicher

Benjamin Eicher (born 1974-03-31 in Tübingen, Germany) is a film director famous for his cult film sequel Dei Mudder Sei Gesicht II and further feature-length gangster comedies.

Big Active

Book design credits include the David Bailey photo-book 'Chasing Rainbows', Jocelyn Bain Hogg's photo-documentary on London's gangster underworld - 'The Firm', and Deidre O'Callaghan's 'Hide That Can' as well as their own 1995 publication 'Head-Heart-Hips'.

Blow Your Mind

"Blow Ya Mind", a 2007 song by Styles P from the album Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman)

Blue Magic

The name of a high quality brand of heroin marketed by drug lord Frank Lucas, which later inspired the film American Gangster and the song of the same name by Jay-Z.

Borden Chase

Born Frank Fowler, he went through an assortment of jobs, including driving for gangster Frankie Yale and working as a sandhog on the construction of New York's Holland Tunnel, before turning to writing, first short stories and novels, and later, screenplays.

Brodie's Law

Brodie's Law is a comic book series created by Daley Osiyemi and David Bircham which tells the story of anti-hero, Jack Brodie, East end Gangster, expert thief and professional killer, who in a twist of fate gains the ability to steal his victims' souls and take on their appearance, memories and feelings.

Dopey

Benjamin Fein (also known as "Dopey Benny"), an American gangster

Edna Murray

On April 23, 1934, outlaws John Dillinger, Homer Van Meter and John "Red" Hamilton arrived at Murray's home seeking refuge after being ambushed by federal agents and police at their hideout near Rhinelander, Wisconsin.

Françoise Yip

She did two movies with Jet Li, the first as a lead romantic interest in Black Mask and the second in Romeo Must Die, but this time she played a Chinese gangster motorcycle assassin killed by Jet Li and Aaliyah.

Frank Shoofey

Shoofey’s clients included gangster Richard Blass, who was killed in a police raid in 1975, and four men apprehended for the 1978 murder of Montreal “Godfather” Paolo Violi.

Gabriel Gabrio

Gabrio is possibly best recalled for his roles as Jean Valjean in the 1925 Henri Fescourt-directed adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Cesare Borgia in the 1935 Abel Gance-directed biopic Lucrèce Borgia and as Carlos in the 1937 Julien Duvivier-directed gangster film Pépé le Moko, opposite Jean Gabin.

Gallus Mag

A composite female street gangster character of "Hell-Cat Maggie" in the Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York, played by Cara Seymour, is based on Mag, Sadie the Goat, and the real-life Hellcat Maggie.

Gangster Stories

Gangster Stories (and its companion, Racketeer Stories) quickly came under censorship pressure in New York state, instigated by John S. Sumner of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, a state entity empowered to recommend obscenity cases to prosecutorial authorities.

Hack Circle

For a time it was a popular Hacky Sack venue (hence the name), later it became a popular hang out for "black-dressed emos, goths, heavy metal fans and United States style gangstas".

Hallandale Beach, Florida

Meyer Lansky (1902–1983), Jewish gangster; financial wizard of the National Crime Syndicate

High Times' Potluck

Along the way the weed passes through the hands of an obnoxious artist (Jason Isaacs), an unfortunate small-time dealer (Jason Mewes), a bereaved Mafia gangster (Frank Adonis), the lead-singer of a punk band (Theo Kogan) and an aging TV detective (Frank Gorshin).

History of Tucson, Arizona

A fire allowed firemen to discover their identity and the police promptly arrested Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley, Russell Clark, Ed Shouse, and Dillinger.

Jake Lingle

The 1931 film The Finger Points was loosely based on Lingle's life and death, and starred Richard Barthelmess as the reporter, Fay Wray as his love interest, and Clark Gable as the gangster who corrupts him.

James McBratney

James McBratney (November 17, 1941, New York City, New York – May 22, 1973, Staten Island, New York) was an Irish American gangster, believed to have been involved in the 1972 kidnappings of Emanuel "Manny" Gambino (nephew of Carlo Gambino) and Lucchese crime family caporegime Francesco Manzo and Gambino crime family mafioso Vincent D'Amore.

Jaywick

Some of the scenes in the gangster movie Essex Boys were filmed in the Brooklands area of Jaywick.

Jefferson Smith

Soapy Smith (Jefferson Randolph Smith II, 1860–1898), American con artist and gangster

Jerry Giesler

Giesler also won acquittal for Lili St. Cyr, Charlie Chaplin, gangster Bugsy Siegel, producer Walter Wanger–accused of shooting an agent who was paying too much attention to actress Joan Bennett, Wanger's wife, and Buron Fitts, a district attorney accused of improper conduct.

Joe Colombo

Joseph Colombo (1914–1978), American gangster, boss of the Colombo crime family

Kiriakis family

During Victor's "gangster" heyday in the mid-to-late 1980s, and including a storyline involving Victor's return to his home village of Nafplion, Greece, it was also insinuated that the family was something akin to a Greek version of a Sicilian-style Mafia clan (indeed, Victor revealed at one point that his own father and brother were murdered by a rival family in a gangland car bombing).

La Haine

He sees himself as a gangster ready to win respect by killing a cop, manically practising the role of Travis Bickle from the film Taxi Driver in the mirror secretly.

Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young

The song idea came to Joe Allison while watching a gangster movie starring a young John Derek.

Marc Iliffe

As well as televised strongman competitions, Marc appeared in a television advertisement for rock group Pulp’s Hits album before Christmas 2002 and had been cast in a film called Transfer by GMV Entertainment along with the boxer Richie Woodhall, in which he was due to play a gangster.

Murder Ain't What it Used to Be

His trademark cigar, white hat and raucous laughter is stereotypical of a Chicago gangster of the 1920s, and he appears in the mirror several times to taunt Jeannie as she is taking care of her appearance.

My Lucky Stars

The fight scene between Swordflower (Sibelle Hu) and a Japanese gangster (Michiko Nishiwaki) is one of the most memorable not just in this movie but in many Hong Kong action movies.

Nevada during World War II

People like Bugsy Siegel, a New York gangster, flocked to Nevada to take advandage of the growing communities.

Operation Good Guys

There were three series produced, which featured guest stars including David Seaman, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee, Jonny Lee Miller, gangster "Mad Frankie" Fraser, ex Spandau Ballet star Martin Kemp, Denise van Outen and Donna Air.

Pierre Clémenti

Arguably, his most famous role was that of gangster lover of bourgeois prostitute Catherine Deneuve in Belle de jour, the 1967 classic by Luis Buñuel, in whose film La voie lactée he played the Devil.

Rhythm-al-ism

"I think that's when I lost my rough edges, I lost the gangster and became like an R&B pretty boy. "The name Rhythm-al-ism alone tells you what I was doing.

Rock Island Swing Bridge

There is some evidence that gangster John Dillinger fled across the bridge into Inver Grove Heights after a running gun battle with Dakota County deputies in Newport and St. Paul Park.

Sankat City

One night, they steal a Mercedes Rs. 10 million inside, unaware that the car belongs to a vicious gangster/loan shark called Faujdaar (Anupam Kher).

Silver dollar

Sylvestro Carolla, New Orleans gangster known as "Sam 'Silver Dollar'"

Skreemer

Brett Ewins, in the foreword to the book, explains that Skreemer has two distinct inspirations—gangster films, specifically Once Upon a Time in America and The Long Good Friday, and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

Suicide door

Suicide doors were especially popular with mobsters in the gangster era of the 1930s, supposedly due to the ease of pushing passengers out of moving vehicles, according to Dave Brownell, the former editor of Hemmings Motor News.

The Big Shot

This was the last film in which former supporting player Bogart, who had finally reached stardom with High Sierra (1940) and The Maltese Falcon (1941), would portray a gangster.

The Gay Bride

Gold-digging chorus girl Mary (Carole Lombard) marries the head of a bootlegging syndicate, gangster "Shoots" Magiz (Nat Pendleton), but the illegal liquor business goes down the drain when Prohibition is repealed, and Shoots is knocked off by rival Daniel Dingle (Sam Hardy).

Wake of Death

After being a gangster for many years, Ben Archer (played by Jean-Claude Van Damme) moves from Marseille to Los Angeles and decides to become legit to spend more time with his wife, Cynthia (Lisa King), and his child, Nicholas (Pierre Marais).

Whatever Happened to Slade

The song's lyric, written by Holder, was based on a 1949 gangster film titled "White Heat", starring James Cagney.

You've Come a Long Way, Baby

"Gangster Trippin" contains samples of "Entropy", written and performed by DJ Shadow (Josh Davis), and "Beatbox Wash", written and performed by the Dust Junkys (Sam Brox, Ganiyu Pierre Gasper, Stephen Jones, Nicholas Lockett and Myke Wilson).


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