I recognize it too. This film was released the year that disco broke (or punk broke, however you want to look at it), and therefore ought not be categorized as seventies cinema. But woah there! Hey now! Let’s break it down a bit first, lest we jump to any more conclusions.
Bob Hoskins, leading man. Bob Hoskins? Leading man? Hoskins is most often recognized as that suit in Roger Rabbit whose deviant desires target a cartoon woman. He was also Smee from Hook. I was introduced to this film a year ago, when I was taking what’ll prolly prove to be the ballinest class of my total college career: David Lavery’s English 4860: Gangster Films. Apparently the film company had planned to have Hoskins’ thick Cockney accent dubbed over by an American one, and Hoskins threatened to sue. Luckily, Hoskins won and we now have one of the greatest testaments of the gangster genre canon. And it’s not even American!
(Stick around for a young Pierce Brosnan, who plays a deadly IRA assassin!)
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