Bugsy Malone (1976)

Note des utilisateurs:

6.4/10   

Réalisateur:

Alan Parker

Scénariste:

Alan Parker (writer)

Release Date:

15 septembre 1976 (USA)

Genre:

Comedie | Crime | Family | Musical

Accroche:

Quite simply there has never ever been a movie like it

Plot:

A gangster movie where all the gangsters are children. Instead of real bullets they use "splurge guns" that cover the victim in cream...

Plot Keywords:

Gangster | Children | Boxing | Nightclub | Great Depression

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 5 wins & 9 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

great fun

Ensemble

Scott Baio	...	Bugsy Malone
Florrie Dugger	...	Blousey Brown
Jodie Foster	...	Tallulah
John Cassisi	...	Fat Sam
Martin Lev	...	Dandy Dan
Paul Murphy	...	Leroy Smith / Gangster
Sheridan Earl Russell	...	Knuckles (as Sheridan Russell)
Albin 'Humpty' Jenkins	...	Fizzy
Paul Chirelstein	...	Smolsky / Boxer
Andrew Paul	...	O'Dreary
Davidson Knight	...	Cagey Joe
Michael Jackson	...	Razamataz
Jeffrey Stevens	...	Louis
Peter Holder	...	Ritzy
Donald Waugh	...	Snake Eyes

Durée:

93 min

Pays:

UK

Langue:

Anglais | Italien

Couleur:

Couleur (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Son:

Mono (35 mm optical prints) | 4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints)

Classification:

Iceland:L | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | USA:G | West Germany:6

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Black Park Country Park, Wexham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Robert Stigwood Organisation Ltd.

Anecdotes:

Although it performed well in England and Japan, Paramount only gave "Bugsy Malone" a limited release in US theaters, usually dumping it onto second-feature screens partnered with a late-'76 re-release of The Bad News Bears (1976).

Goofs:

Continuity: After the song "Tomorrow" Bugsy and Blousey are in the café. Blousey has a drink and it has two straws and one spoon. The spoon keeps disappearing.

Guillemet:

[first lines]
Fat Sam: Someone once said it was raining brains; Roxy Robinson wouldn't even get wet. Roxy had spent his whole life making two and two into five, but he could smell trouble like other people could smell gas. But believe you's me, he should've never taken that blind alley by the side of Parido's Bakery. Whatever game it was everybody was playing, sure as eggs is eggs, Roxy the Weasel had been scrambled.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Doctor Who: Daleks in Manhattan (#3.4)" (2007)

great fun

I remember my father announcing a family plan to see this movie the year it came out, when I was 9. I didn't want to go--a gangster movie with kids? I thought it would be scary, or worse, boring. But the decision had been made, and I reluctantly went along to the theater. As it turned out, my father was right to take us: "Bugsy Malone" became one of my favorite childhood movies. My brother and I were given the soundtrack LP for Christmas that year (I still have it), and we learned all the songs.

I've since seen the movie as a grownup, and I still think it's very well-made. It wasn't until I was older that I could appreciate the acting, and the sophisticated production design (though I knew when I first saw the movie that it had a very clever script). My only quibble is the filmmakers' decision to have adults sing all the songs--it's a bit bizarre to hear grownup voices coming out of children, and after a while you start to notice that the voices sound the same, since they didn't cast different singers for each character (Paul Williams himself does most of the vocal work). It makes the film feel more low-budget than it should.

Mickey Dolenz directed a stage version of the film in London years later, which I was hoping had all-singing kids, but apparently the songs were pre-recorded. High schools now perform the show, however, so at last the voices will match.

Any kid that's interested in old Hollywood should be given a chance to see this film.