Turnbull :

1) Needless to say how happy I am to see names like Little Caesar, White Heat, and The Public Enemy in this thread. Not only great films, but some are also groundbreaking in terms of cinema..."The Public Enemy" is one of the first movies where real machine guns were used during filming. (the shootout in the street corner for example)...White Heat features some technical police methods never seen on film before. etc.


Is White Heat a mob film or a gangster film? or maybe just a crime film? do you make a distinction?

2)"I think of the GF Trilogy as a story of a family, with the Mafia as the defining milieu--but it's not a gangster movie per se."

Can u say the same thing about the Sopranos?

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Other notable movies Id like to add (by year):

Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932)
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Dead End (1937)
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Key Largo (1948)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Point Blank (1967)
Get Carter (1971)