Tue, Jun 30th, 2009
America’s love affair with gangsters and gangster movies started when such writers as 1920s Chicago crime reporter Ben Hecht (“Underworld,” “Scarface”) and novelist W.R. Burnett (“Little Caesar”) went West to forge the myth of a new American criminal in the smithy of Hollywood’s Dream Machine.
What emerged was a gritty, flashy, sexy, shockingly violent and still relevant take on the American Dream.
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