Bugsy

Titolo originale: Bugsy
Regia: Barry Levinson |
Anno: 1991
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Crime Dramma Mistero
Tag: hotel | casino | hitman | psychopath | biography | romance | money | mafia | hollywood | las vegas | hoodlum | 1940s |
Cast: Warren Beatty | Annette Bening | Harvey Keitel | Ben Kingsley | Elliott Gould | Joe Mantegna | Bebe Neuwirth | Bill Graham | Lewis van Bergen | Wendy Phillips | Richard C. Sarafian | Karen Russell | Robert Beltran | Stefanie Mason | Kimberly McCullough | Andy Romano | Bryan Smith | Eric Christmas | Ray McKinnon | Joseph Roman | Don Carrara | Carmine Caridi | Don Calfa | Robert Glaudini | Joe Baker | Ksenia Prohaska | Bruce Ed Morrow | Clive Rosengren | Traci Lind | Anthony Russell | Wendie Malick | Ralph Tabakin | Julie Strain |

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster psicopatico e incallito donnaiolo, con i soci Charley "Lucky" Luciano e Meyer Lansky, controlla il racket del gioco d'azzardo a New York. Mandato in missione a Los Angeles, conosce Virginia Hill, avvenente attrice di cinema, e se ne innamora. Una volta eliminato il boss locale, i suoi progetti si fanno ambiziosi: decide infatti di aprire con Virginia una grandiosa casa da gioco nel deserto del Nevada, il Flamingo. Nonostante abbia avuto numerose nominations all'Oscar '92 (vincendo quelli per scenografia e costumi), il film è solo in parte riuscito. Ha comunque al suo attivo l'interpretazione di Beatty, anche se un po' troppo sopra le righe.

Approfondimenti

The only Best Picture Oscar nominee of the year to be also nominated for Best Original Screenplay. D
George Raft gets out of a 1947 Cadillac Fleetwood 75 at Union Station in Los Angeles. This particula [...] D
The real Harry Greenberg was aged 30 when he was murdered. Elliott Gould who portrayed him was actua [...] D
Harvey Keitel's only Oscar nominated performance, as of 2021. D
The movie that George Raft (Joe Mantegna) is making while Bugsy Siegel visits him on the set is Fulm [...] D
Sir Ben Kingsley and Annette Bening appeared in Da che pianeta vieni? (2000) and Mrs. Harris (2005). D
After working on this movie, Warren Beatty and Annette Bening were married. D
The red airplane Bugsy Siegel tries to get Virginia Hill on is a 1944 Howard DGA-15P, registration N [...] D
Barry Levinson: [Ralph Tabakin] Ralph (elevator operator) has appeared in every Levinson picture fro [...] D
Costume designer Albert Wolsky dressed more than 2,000 people in the course of this movie, tracking [...] D
Michelle Pfeiffer dropped out of the role of Virginia Hill. A year later when Annette Bening became [...] D
Real estate mogul Del E. Webb, portrayed in this movie by Andy Romano, was the main contractor for t [...] D
Baseball writer Roger Kahn wrote, "Bugsy Siegel... gently played by Warren Beatty in a popular 1991 [...] D
The scene where Virginia Hill serves Bugsy Siegel shrimp scampi can be dated by the headline of the [...] D
James Toback was six years late delivering the screenplay to Warren Beatty. D
The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be nominated for Best Costume Design. D
According to an article in the 21 December 1991 edition of the Los Angeles Times, the costume budget [...] D
Most of the Las Vegas scenes of the Flamingo construction were filmed near Palm Desert and La Quinta [...] D
The four-engine flying boat depicted as landing at Havana, Cuba for the mob meeting including Lucky [...] D
Cinematographer Allen Daviau lit the scenes like the Hollywood movies of the 1940s. D
Epilogue before closing credits: "One week after Bugsy Siegel's death Virginia Hill returned all of [...] D
This movie came in a week over schedule and $1 million over budget, the same amount that Bugsy Siege [...] D
Joe Mantegna appeared in Il padrino - Parte III (1990). In the previous movies, the characters of Mo [...] D
One of three movies released in 1991 that featured Bugsy Siegel as a character. The other two were B [...] D
While this movie suggests that Bugsy Siegel and Virginia Hill first meet on a movie set, they had ac [...] D
The car Mickey Cohen drives, with the large whitewall tires, is a 1939 Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special [...] D
Like their characters, Harvey Keitel and Elliott Gould are both Jewish. Warren Beatty and Ben Kingsl [...] D
The idea that Bugsy Siegel dreamed up the Las Vegas Strip on his own is only partly true. The Flamin [...] D
Sir Ben Kingsley and Annette Bening have both appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Kingsley wa [...] D
James Toback first wrote a 400 page treatment of the script but lost it's only copy under strange ci [...] D
This is the first movie about the life of Bugsy Siegel, though a very fictionalized one. Even during [...] D
Harvey Keitel and Sir Ben Kingsley were nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in this movie. [...] D
The cast includes three Oscar winners: Warren Beatty, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Barry Levinson; and four [...] D
When Bugsy Siegel opens the shade on the window at the gambling parlor (having gone there to find ou [...] D
Virginia Hill pulls up at Bugsy Siegel's house in a 1938 Lincoln Zephyr convertible coupe. Only 200 [...] D
Virginia Hill tells Bugsy Siegel that Meyer Lansky had to duck under the header beam, because it was [...] D
In the late 1970s, Jean-Luc Godard became obsessed with the story of Bugsy Siegel, and planned to ma [...] D
The Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas (which was previously owned by Bugsy Siegel's associate, [...] D
James Toback wrote the screenplay with the intention of directing it. D
Warren Beatty was widely felt to be too old to play Bugsy Siegel. D
In 1974, Universal announced that producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown were planning a Bugsy [...] D
The car Bugsy Siegel buys right off the street is a 1941 Cadillac Series 62 convertible sedan. D
Director Barry Levinson wanted Michelle Pfeiffer for the lead, but she decided to do Paura d'amare ( [...] D
Harvey Keitel's appearance was transformed with the aid of a bald cap and a nose piece. D
This marks the first time that James Toback and Harvey Keitel have only collaborated as writer and s [...] D
The story in the paper Bugsy reads With the headline about the allies crossing the Rhine, took place [...] D
This movie shows Bugsy Siegel watching a screentest of himself. In real life, Siegel made many frien [...] D
Back in 1967, a Bugsy Siegel biopic was announced with Tony Curtis in the title role. D
Harvey Keitel, who plays Mickey Cohen in this movie, portrayed Bugsy Siegel in Virginia Hill (1974). [...] D
For authenticity, Warren Beatty's clothes were virtual clones of those once worn by the gangster and [...] D