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Posted: 4/1/2006 7:12:23 PM EDT

Not mobsters/wise guys, but gangsters, like Bonnie & Clyde, The Ma Barker Gang, "Pretty Boy" Floyd, "Babyface" Nelson, that genre. Which movies have the best gunfights and shoot-em-up scenes? I want to see Tommy guns, BARs, 1911s, and shotguns.

Posted: 4/1/2006 7:14:10 PM EDT

[#1]

the untouchables, with eliot ness?

Posted: 4/1/2006 7:19:29 PM EDT

[#2]

A Bronx Tale is one of my favorites.

Posted: 4/1/2006 7:19:30 PM EDT

[#3]

Once upon a time in America

Good Fellas

God Father 1 2 & 3

Casino

Donnie Brasco

Just to name a very few.

ETA ok, I read your post, not just the title.

Never mind.

Posted: 4/1/2006 7:21:16 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Good Fellas

God Father 1 2 & 3

he wants gangsters, not mobsters. sounds like he's more interested in prohibition-era rumrunners than the mafia, which came later.

Posted: 4/1/2006 7:22:37 PM EDT

[#5]

A Bronx Tale is pure genious. Also the first movie DeNiro ever directed.

Hoodlum was a great movie about the depression-era gangsters.

Posted: 4/1/2006 7:25:53 PM EDT

[#6]

Posted: 4/1/2006 7:28:00 PM EDT

[#7]

Millers Crossing +1

Road To Perdition
Dillinger (1973, the Warren Oates version)
O Brother Where Art Thou?

"Oh George, not the livestock!"

Posted: 4/1/2006 7:29:48 PM EDT

[#8]

road to perdition wasnt terrible

Posted: 4/1/2006 7:31:04 PM EDT

[#9]

Road to Perdition

Posted: 4/1/2006 7:35:45 PM EDT

[#10]

white heat (Cagney movie)

Posted: 4/1/2006 7:35:50 PM EDT

[#11]

Road to Perdition

Untouchables is probably the best modern one I can think of...infact I'm having a hard time comming up with much at all...

Posted: 4/1/2006 7:41:40 PM EDT

[#12]

I seem to recall "Last Man Standing" with Bruce Willis to be pretty good.

It has the gun play you require!

linky

Tagline: There are two sides to every war. And John Smith is on both of them. (more)

Plot Outline: A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.

Posted: 4/1/2006 7:50:06 PM EDT

[#13]

Dillenger. Haven't seen it in years, so I can't remember if it was the original or the remake.

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