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Gangster Story

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What a story! This is better than The Outlaw, and resembles it in pacing, acting, and plausibility. Eat your heart out, Mr Hughes. The dialogue is brilliant, all of a sudden; and the motivation totally credible. "What do you do? I'm a bank robber. Oh yes. What else? This and that. I own a citrus grove; I'll give you a job. Gee, thanks." This film features the politest gangsters I've ever been privileged to watch. "Take a seat, Earl. Thank you. Care for a cigar? No thank you. You've just saved my life, Jack. Thank you very much." The heists touch imaginative heights unequalled. Eat your heart out, Rififi. The only thing is that Adolf and Jack are a little untidy. After you take your golf bags out of the car boot, fixed them to their trolleys, packed them full of shooting irons, you really should close the boot, or trunk, before trundling off to the green. And missing the putt at half an inch --- 5 times! --- that takes superior golfing skill. I wonder if the Coens ever saw this masterpiece? I also wonder how it could have been made in 1960. Wonders will never cease.

It's been amusing in the past viewing "Plan 9 From Outer Space", proclaimed by many to be the worst movie ever made. At least that movie was so bad that it was funny/appealing. However this, "Gangster Story", is just simply the worst movie I can recall seeing. This is so bad in every catagory (writing, acting, directing, filming and editing) that it is just terrible. Honestly it deserves 0 stars. No fun watching this cheapy. Virtually nothing is plausable, connected or makes sense. Save your money and even more importantly, your time, and don't waste a second on this bomb...it's the pits! Worse than "Lepke".
"Gangster Story" really puts in doubt the depth of Walter Matthau's actual talent. (He starred and directed)

This is a great 50's movie starring and directed by Walter Matthau as a bank robber falling in love with a librarian who tries to set him straight!!

In this low budget movie starring Walter Matthau(probably during his lean years) in a non-comedic role as a gangster trying to create a crime syndicate and teaming up for a heist.It's an interesting,must see movie!!