Final-Fan said:
Let's get a couple questions out of the way:
-- Why is Bugsy Malone in the thread title? It's the movie that inspired this thread.
-- Why did I make this thread? I felt like it. I suddenly had an urge to make a thread for people to talk about movies that are obscure but which they enjoyed a lot. Maybe other people will like them too that would never have known about them if not for this.
-- So what the hell is Bugsy Malone anyway?
Well, very briefly, Bugsy Malone is a gangster movie. With child actors. (Most of them dropped right off the map after this, but you may recognize Jodie Foster and Scott Baio.) I think I'd go so far as to call it one of my favorite musicals.
Instead of guns, the gangs fight with custard* pies, and the movie is driven by the introduction of "Splurge Guns" that shoot custard instead. The guns look remarkably like the Striker shotgun, although they're obviously equivalent to the Tommy gun. Cars are pedaled, et cetera. But everything is played straight, with a couple exceptions. One "death" scene is particularly poignant.
*Or something.
So what movies do you love that no one has heard of?
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did'nt richard donner direct this movie. I've never seen this movie,but I've heard of it,while watching something on T.V. about it's director.
