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1990: Year of the Gangster Film, 1991: Year of the Period Gangster Film


In 1990 you had a raft of various gangster films featuring different gangs during both contemporary and period settings, including 'Goodfellas', 'The Godfather Part II', 'Miller's Crossing', 'The Krays', 'King of New York', 'Dick Tracy' and 'My Blue Heaven'.

It would seem that 1991, as well as being the year that African-American led movies started to gain commercial prominence, was the year of the period bio-pic gangster film with 'Mobsters', 'Bugsy' and 'Billy Bathgate' released all within a short period of time. You could even argue that 'JFK' had some strong 'true-life' gangster elements, although that was set at a later period.

How awesome would it be to combine all those films, or have all the various actors from these films, playing Jewish and Italian-American gangsters, together?

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