Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge gun". As the custard pies fly, Bugsy Malone, an all-round nice guy, falls for Blousey Brown, a singer at Fat Sam's speakeasy. His designs on her are disrupted by the seductive songstress Tallulah who wants Bugsy for herself.
- new york city
- prohibition era
- gangster
- gang war
- musical
- speakeasy
- 1920s
- gangster comedy
- rival gangs
- all-child cast
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Martin Lev — Dandy Dan
- Paul Murphy — Leroy Smith
- Sheridan Earl Russell — Knuckles
- Albin 'Humpty' Jenkins — Fizzy
- Paul Chirelstein — Smolsky
- Andrew Paul — O'Dreary
- Davidson Knight — Cagey Joe
- Michael Jackson — Razamataz
- Jeff Stevenson — Louis
- Peter Holder — Ritzy
- Donald Waugh — Snake Eyes
- Directed
- Alan Parker
- Written
- Alan Parker
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 324 ratings
- Studio
- Goodtimes Enterprises, Bugsy Malone Productions, Robert Stigwood Organization, National Film Trustee Company, The Rank Organisation, Paramount Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
