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Bugsy Malone (1976) Alan Parker

April 29th 2024

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Bugsy Malone is a 1976 gangster musical comedy film written and directed by Alan Parker (in his feature film directorial debut). A co-production of United States and United Kingdom, it features an ensemble cast, featuring only child actors playing adult roles, with Jodie Foster, Scott Baio and John Cassisi in major roles. The film tells the story of the rise of "Bugsy Malone" and the battle for power between "Fat Sam" and "Dandy Dan".

OH GOD NOT BUGSY MALONE

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In order to cast Fat Sam, Alan Parker went into a Brooklyn classroom and asked who was the worst behaved in class. Everybody said John Cassisi, who was handed the part.

Over 1000 cream pies were thrown throughout the movie.

The pedal driven cars were all built by hand for the film and they had a max speed of 10 mph.

The average age of the cast was 12 years old.

The splurge guns, when you see them up close, fire ping pong balls. And the editing at the other end is simply done with yet more cream pies being thrown at them from behind the camera.

None of the kids actually sing. They mime. And many of the songs are sung by Paul Williams, the film’s songwriter, himself.

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Sátira aos filmes de gângsteres. Conta a história da ascensão de Bugsy Malone (Scott Baio) e sua companheira Tallulah (Jodie Foster), em meio à luta pelo poder entre Fat Sam (John Cassisi) e Dandy Dan (Martin Lev). As brigas são resolvidas com 'Torta na Cara' e as metralhadoras cospem Chantilly.

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Bugsy Malone (1976). The classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast. It feels impossible to review this movie, because it is just so bonkers I can barely believe it got made at all, haha. As someone who's watched a lot of musicals for this project though, I will say the dancing, costumes and set pieces were really inventive and fun, but the adult singing voices were probably the biggest hindrance for me overall. It's totally bizarre, but I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, haha. 6.5/10.

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Bugsy Malone (1976)

Cute Fact: When looking for Fat Sam, director Alan Parker went to a Brooklyn classroom and asked who was the naughtiest boy in class; all the class replied John Cassisi, who subsequently got the part.

Vocal Fact: All singing was dubbed by adult vocalists, with the exception of Bonnie Langford.

Fact That Further Proves That Scott Baio Has Always Been a Trash Human: Reportedly, actor Scott Baio was cast even after he had slammed down the script and stormed out of his audition.

Another Fact About Garbage Human Scott Baio: Florence Garland had a frosty relationship off-screen with Scott Baio and admitted years later that she couldn't stand him. The lack of any on-screen chemistry between the actors is noticeable in their scenes together.

ESE: 90/100

50 -25 for Scott Baio +10 for Jodie Foster +10 for originality of an all-child cast for a gangster film -10 for Scott Baio’s film debut +10 for Dexter Fletcher’s film debut -5 for guns that shoot cream +10 for soundtrack +5 for Fat Sam’s speakeasy +5 for splurge gun +5 for “My Name is Tallulah” +5 for the “cars” +5 for the gift for Blousey -5 for the splurge gun backfiring on poor Knuckles +5 for the Statue of Liberty torch joke +5 for Baby Face

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BUGSY MALONE (Alan Parker, 1976).

Alan Parker’s feature film directorial debut is really something special. A musical homage to 1930’s gangster movies with a cast made up entirely of children really shouldn’t work, but it does.

Gang warfare rages in Prohibition-era New York as hoods Fat Sam and Dandy Dan battle for supremacy in the city. Armed with newfangled splurge guns (whipped cream firing machine guns), it looks like Danny Dan’s mob is winning. Speakeasy owner Sam engages good guy Bugsy Malone to help in his fight against Dan, while Bugsy has his sights set on aspiring showgirl Blousey Brown.

Recalling both the classic Warner gangster flicks and early backstage musicals, Bugsy Malone is itself a film which largely avoids categorisation. It is a love letter to the Hollywood of the 1930s. The beautifully detailed sets of dimly lit back alleys and colourful speakeasies faithfully recalling the era of Cagney and Robinson. Paul Williams superb jazz inspired score provides perfect accompaniment to the visuals, while the witty, quick fire dialogue would befit a period screwball comedy. The soft focus camera work and plethora of brown on display gives the feel of an old sepia tone photograph and adds to the era atmosphere.

An assured and charismatic performance from Scott Baio as Bugsy is surprisingly his first screen appearance. As was true of much of the cast. Florrie Dugger is touchingly melancholic as Bugsy’s gal Blousey in her only movie, while John Cassisi embodies gleeful roguishness as Fat Sam, one of only a handful of acting roles for the youngster. Only Jodie Foster, in the supporting role of showgirl cum moll Tallulah, was a veteran performer and gives the first rate professional performance you would expect. But to the credit of the cast and director Parker, none of the kids put a foot wrong and are never upstaged by the more experienced star.

There really is nothing else like Bugsy Malone in cinema history. As artful as it is entertaining and equally enjoyable for children and grownups; a unique, unadulterated pleasure from beginning to end!

Visit my blog JINGLE BONES MOVIE TIME for a longer, more in-depth review of Bugsy Malone! Link below.

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Don’t ever let me see you laughin’ at me again, you hear? Else I’ll ram that smile right down yer troat! I’m Fat Sam, don’t ever forget that! Number One Man, Top Dog, Mr. Big! Always have been, always will be, now get outta here!

Fat Sam - Bugsy Malone (1976)

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Versatile British Director Alan Parker Dies at 76

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Innovative and acclaimed British director Alan Parker, died Friday, July 31, after a lengthy, but as yet undisclosed illness, according to Variety. He was 76.

Parker was nominated for two Best Director Oscars. One of those films was 1988’s Mississippi Burning, which highly dramatized the investigation of three murdered civil rights activists in 1964. The films starred Willem Dafoe and Gene Hackman, with the latter being nominated for Best Actor. Parker’s first Oscar nomination though came for the 1978 drama Midnight Express, another film based on true events. Oliver Stone won his first Oscar for the screenplay, which focused on Billy Hayes, who escaped a Turkish prison after being convicted of trying to smuggle hashish out of the country. Giorgio Moroder also won his first Oscar for composing the music. It was Parker’s second feature, and it was vastly different from his debut.

Alan Parker had a special connection with music. He didn’t direct his films as much as he conducted them. His first film, Bugsy Malone (1976), was a musical which captured the essence and innocence of film. Made with a cast of children, all under 15, it could have been released at any point in motion picture history. The Gangster film parody starred Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, and John Cassisi, who had a recurring role on Barney Miller. The Tommy guns shot whipped cream instead of bullets, but it was killer cream.

He also took on one of classic rock’s most classic rock projects. Before he was a knighted ‘Sir,’ Bob Geldoff was a Boomtown Rat, and Parker shaved his eyebrows and tossed him over Pink Floyd the Wall, the 1982 dramatization of Roger Waters’ concept album tale of his errant musical friend, Syd Barrett. Parker also crowned Madonna as Evita Perrone in the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Broadway musical Evita. He brought New York streetwise actors to life in Fame (1980), which audited acting classes at New York City’s High School of Performing Arts. Parker clubhopped to see almost 1,200 Dublin bands in order to mixed his own version of British Soul for The Commitments, which captured a distinct working class ethic.

Sir Alan William Parker was born Feb. 14, 1944, in Islington, North London. His mother, Elsie Ellen, was a dressmaker, and his father William Leslie Parker, painted houses. Throughout his career, Parker maintained a defiantly working-class attitude. He started as a copywriter as a teenager, and directed TV ads for 10 years before writing the screenplay for the 1971 Waris Hussein film, Melody. Parker wrote and directed his first fictional film, No Hard Feelings,in 1973. The film was a wartime romance captured over the 57-night Blitz on London during World War II. Parker had been born during a bombing raid. “Born in the war? Birthday punchings,” Roger Daltrey would sing on The Who’s “5:15.” Parker mortgaged his house to pay for the film. He also directed the BBC Play for Today production of The Evacuees (1975), based on the true story of a school evacuation.

After Fame Parker made the breakup drama Shoot the Moon (1982). Albert Finney and Diane Keaton were nominated for Golden Globes for their portrayal of the starring couple. His 1984 film Birdy starred Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage as Vietnam War veterans recovering from psychological and physical injuries after coming home. In 1987 Parker adapted William Hjortsberg’s novel Falling Angel into the satanic detective thriller, Angel Heart. The film starred Mickey Rourke as the unknowingly condemned, Lisa Bonet as a too-familiar voodoo priestess, and Robert De Niro as the Devil himself.

He followed Angel Heart with Mississippi Burning. Between The Commitments and Evita, Parker wrote and directed the clean-living period comedy, The Road to Wellville (1994) set at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in the early 20th century. After Evita he made another drastic stylistic change, Angela’s Ashes (1999), about an Irish-American family which has to move back to Ireland. Parker’s last film was the 2003 capital punishment thriller, The Life of David Gale, which starred Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet.

Parker was a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain, and founding chairman of the UK Film Council in 2000. He received a CBE in 1995 and a knighthood in 2002. Parker quit filmmaking in 2015. Having directed since he was 24, he said he was tired of fighting producers and studios.

Parker was married to Annie Inglis from 1966 until 1992. He also married producer Lisa Moran. Parker has five children, including screenwriter Nathan Parker.

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Some thumbnail sketches for the albums: “Bugsy Malone” and “The big, the bad and the lonely”.

After listening to the sample songs of each album, i started to draw some thumbnail sketches of potential vinyl covers. I haven’t drawn any thumbnails for “Modern dance” because i couldn’t think of any at the time, but i will start brain storming and draw some thumbnails for that vinyl.

I wanted to make sure my designs were simple and something that goes well with the inner circles of the records. Things such as composition and colour scheme are things i want to blend and work with the inner circle, rather than ignore and contrast.

The big, the bad and the lonely were inspired by the fact that, the songs had a sombre tone to it -I want my artwork to reflect that. I drew guitar players playing because that’s what i can imagine that when listening to that album.

When it came to designing Bugsy Malone, i drew reference from the 1976 film featuring John Cassisi, Scott Baio and Jodie Foster. I want to draw Bugsy and Blowsey together, since all the things Bugsy does in the film are for Blowsey and her dreams. I did look at the film’s OST covers for some inspiration.

I need to try and see wheather these designs are good or not before putting it onto the vinyl.

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#92: Bugsy Malone

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