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23/05/1984 Drama, Crime 3h 49m
83
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Crime, passion and lust for power.

Overview

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

  1. Sergio Leone

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Robert De Niro

    Noodles

  2. James Woods

    Max

  3. Elizabeth McGovern

    Deborah

  4. Joe Pesci

    Frankie

  5. Burt Young

    Joe

  6. Tuesday Weld

    Carol

  7. Treat Williams

    Jimmy O'Donnell

  8. Danny Aiello

    Police Chief Aiello

  9. Richard Bright

    Chicken Joe

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-05-25
Told by way of a really potent (and well scored by Morricone) retrospective, this sits us down and takes us through a forty year period in the life of the now down-at-heel "Noodles" (Robert De Niro) and of the development of the city of New York. The contents of an old briefcase serve as an aide memoire as the retrospective illustrates just how he and three of his childhood friends decided that the gutter was not for them, and that using the "system" to get on was the only way. Prohibition, violence, crime, brutality were the currency back then and "Noodles" learned not to have scruples about ...read the rest
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