Any one know any good prohibtion movies, I have netflix now, so im trying to find some solid movies to rent.

I like the prohibtion era films.

I have seen Untoucables, Miller's Crossing and Road to Perdition. Those r the prohibtion films, obviosuly I have seen alot more mob films but I'm lookin for some films set in the 1920s.

Thanks

Fins-

Start with the classics- Jimmy Cagney in "Public Enemy" and "The Roaring Twenties", Edward G. Robinson in "Little Caesar", Paul Muni in the original "Scarface"- all of these have the benefit of being made either during, or immediately after prohibition.
Rod Steiger in "Al Capone" is pretty good, and there's another film from 1975, called simply "Capone" with Sly Stallone as Frank Nitti.
Intellectually challenging and very, very good, is Sergio Leone's "Once Upon A Time In America" with De Niro, and if you can find it, there's a movie called "Gangster Wars", which is the first few episodes of a TV series from the early 80s called "The Gangster Chronicles". It documents the rise of Charlie Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Benny Seigel, and has a small part played by Richard "Clemenza" Castellano as the old time black-hand boss Masseria.
The cheesiest of them all, and my personal favorite, is a Roger Corman flick called "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" with (can you believe it) Jason Robards as Al Capone.
Enjoy you film fest, paisan!

Sammy The Fish

thanks dude. Yeah ive the Saint Val. Massacre. It was pretty good but the voice over guy was so corny.

An understatement. Of all the many actors who played Capone or Capone-like characters, Steiger was the absolute best, IMO. The movie itself is no better than an average B-film. But Steiger was electrifying. The best performance of a brilliant career.
"St. Valentine's Day Massacre" is a high-quality B-movie--lavish by Corman's standards. Great entertainment. Look for Jack Nicholson in a small part.

I'll echo Turnbull - Steiger in Al Capone is a must-see. It's strange that this film is hardly ever mentioned when Steiger's best performances are discussed.

Also worth seeing in this film is the female lead: the underappreciated, now-forgotten Fay Spain (1932-1983). Other than this film and God's Little Acre, she was never really able to escape being a B-movie (and television) actress.

In one of her final roles, Ms. Spain can barely be seen (without even one close-up of her face) as Mrs. Hyman Roth in GF2.

Signor V.

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I agree with your assessment of Steiger's portrayal of Capone- it's actually my personal favorite, IMHO far and away better than De Niro's in "The Untouchables", which while very good, was very stylized and in the final analysis, still "De Niro-ized". My overall assessment of the film being pretty good was just my overall assessment of the film as a whole, which, as you said, was of average B-movie status.

Sammy The Fish