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Bugsy Malone movie poster
Directed by	Alan Parker
Produced by	Alan Marshall
Written by	Alan Parker Paul Williams (Lyrics)
Starring	Scott Baio Florrie Dugger Jodie Foster John Cassisi Martin Lev
Music by	chris brown
Cinematography	Peter Biziou Michael Seresin
Editing by	Gerry Hambling
Distributed by	Fox-Rank Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	September 15, 1976
Running time	93 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
IMDb profile

Bugsy Malone is a 1976 musical film, very loosely based on events in Chicago, Illinois in the Prohibition era, specifically, the exploits of gangsters like Al Capone as dramatized in cinema. The tongue-in-cheek movie stars children as the gangsters and their molls, toning down the subject matter sufficiently to receive a "G" rating. The plot concerns the manufacture of a brand of custard, which is used first in cream-topped pies (being hit with one "kills" the character) then later in "splurge guns" that enable the dessert to be deployed on an unprecedented level. The musical centers on Fat Sam's Grand Slam speakeasy. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (491x755, 108 KB) Summary movie poster for the American theatrical release of the film Bugsy Malone (1976) Source URL: http://www. ... Alan Parker on the set of Pink Floyd The Wall Sir Alan Parker (born February 14, 1944) is a British film director, producer, writer, and actor. ... Alan Marshall (2 May 1902--21 January 1984) born in Noorat, Australia) was an Australian writer, story teller and social documentor, was . ... Paul Hamilton Williams (born September 19, 1940, in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American composer, songwriter, and actor. ... Scott Vincent James Baio (born September 22, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor, who is perhaps best known for his work on the sitcoms Happy Days and Charles in Charge. ... Florrie Dugger is an actress notable for playing Blousey Brown in the film Bugsy Malone in 1976. ... Alicia Christian Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962)[1] is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. ... John Cassisi (b. ... This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... See also: 1920 in film 1921 1922 in film 1920s in film years in film film Events February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres. ... For other uses, see Chicago (disambiguation). ... The term Prohibition, also known as A Dry Law, refers to a law in a certain country by which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages is restricted or illegal. ... For other uses, see Gangster (disambiguation). ... “Capone” redirects here. ... This article focuses on egg-thickened custards. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Written and directed by Alan Parker and produced by David Puttnam, the film stars Scott Baio as the title character, with Jodie Foster in the role of Fat Sam's moll Tallulah. The music and lyrics are by singer-songwriter Paul Williams. All the songs on the soundtrack were actually performed by adults, including Williams himself, in his unmistakable high-pitched voice, and lip-synched by the cast. To commemorate its 30th anniversary, the film was re-released in limited theaters in the UK on December 8, 2006. Alan Parker on the set of Pink Floyd The Wall Sir Alan Parker (born February 14, 1944) is a British film director, producer, writer, and actor. ... David Puttnam receiving his BAFTA Fellowship, 19 February 2006 David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam of Queensgate, CBE is a film producer and politician. ... Scott Vincent James Baio (born September 22, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor, who is perhaps best known for his work on the sitcoms Happy Days and Charles in Charge. ... Alicia Christian Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962)[1] is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. ... Paul Hamilton Williams (born September 19, 1940, in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American composer, songwriter, and actor. ... is the 342nd day of the year (343rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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• Every year brings a great movie. Every decade a great movie musical!
• Quite simply there has never ever been a movie like it.

Plot

The film centers around an ongoing gang battle between Fat Sam, named because of his physique, and Dandy Dan, named for his classy fashion sense. The conflict is set in 1930's America gripped by Prohibition. Fat Sam's various business interests are being systematically raided by Dandy Dan's gangsters, who with their superior firepower (splurge guns) easily eliminate Sam's henchmen.

Bugsy Malone, the main character, begins the film as a bystander, a penniless boxing promoter who is down on his luck. A desperate Fat Sam recruits Bugsy as a driver, and Bugsy, hard-up and needing the money, agrees to help him.

Bugsy's love interest in the film is Blousey Brown, a shy but ambitious girl desperate to be a film star in Hollywood. Bugsy meets Blousey early in the film at Fat Sam's Grand Slam Speakeasy. With the money Bugsy earns from Sam, Bugsy promises to take Blousey to Hollywood. However, Bugsy is later mugged and his money stolen. During the mugging, Bugsy is rescued by Leroy Smith, whose natural fighting talent he recognizes. Bugsy takes Leroy to his local gym to train him as a boxer. Leroy becomes Bugsy's unofficial sidekick.

Blousey's worries intensify as she finds Bugsy flirting with Tallulah, Fat Sam's girlfriend and the lead singer at the speakeasy.

Themes

hNotable among these is a complex moral ambiguity which is rare in a children's film. The lead character, Bugsy, described in his own song as "a sinner, candy-coated" is clearly the hero, despite the fact that we see him imprison a waitress in a phone box so that he can escape from an ice cream parlour without paying. Likewise, while Fat Sam is a Mafia kingpin who is rude and ebullient, he is clearly the "good guy" when compared to his rival, "Dandy Dan", who in contrast is polite and measured.

Secondly, the theme of death is cleverly toned down. As a character is hit in the face with a custard pie or "splurged" with a splurge gun, we see no more of them in the film, and we understand without uncertainty that they have been eliminated. However, it is clear even to small children that custard pie is not harmful, which allows the themes of murder and death to be present in the film without causing alarm to even the tenderest viewer. This is cleverly overturned in the final scene, where no-one is hurt by the custard, a somewhat deus ex machina ending for adults, but entirely in keeping with the conventions of children's films.

Other elements of the adult world are toned down for children. Alcohol is completely absent. For example, Dandy Dan's men raid one of Fat Sam's businesses, and smash barrels full of foaming liquid. Later Sam is heard to complain "Not the sarsaparilla racket as well!" Later, in Sam's bar, the bartender serves only fruit juice and other soft drinks.

The characters drive in cars, which are clearly powered by pedals. The film both draws attention to this (by showing closeups of feet pedalling furiously) and attempts to conceal it for effect (by dubbing the sound of an engine over the soundtrack).

Finally, although any explicit references to sexuality are absent, Jodie Foster's Tallulah is notable for her smouldering flirtatious nature, and her forthright, sassy character:

Tallulah: How about smearin' my lipstick?

Bugsy: Careful, Tallulah! Come any closer and I'm gonna have to call my lawyer!

and:

Tallulah: You have lovely brown eyes.

Bugsy: I'm gonna have lovely black eyes if Sam catches us!

At first glance the story might seem a tragedy: the slow decline and fall of the shady Fat Sam under the even more ruthless Dandy Dan. Only Bugsy, for all his flaws, seems to be able to rise above any of it. And when the cast sing We Could Have Been Anything That We Wanted To Be a theme of reconciliation starts to emerge. Everyone is splurged, but it does not matter because it is, after all, just a kids' game.

After the film

• Since the film's release, Bugsy Malone has been adapted into a stage show.

• The song "Ordinary Fool" has been performed on record by Karen Carpenter, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Tormé.

• In 2003, Bugsy Malone was voted #19 on a list of the 100 greatest musicals, as chosen by viewers of Channel 4 in the UK, placing it higher than The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and The King and I. Channel 4 adapted the list to a TV special format, on which Scott Baio appeared.

• A TV documentary called Bugsy Malone: After They Were Famous features a reunion and interviews with Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, John Cassisi and Florrie Dugger. The British actors who played Fat Sam's gang are also reunited at Pinewood Studios. It was aired in December 2004 on ITV in the UK.

• The song So You Wanna Be a Boxer was used during 2005 to promote Cheesestrings. In the advertisements children would pull bits off a cheesestring and the string which collapsed would lose.

• In 2007 during the Super Bowl XLI, an animated Coca-Cola commercial was based around the song You Give a Little Love from Bugsy Malone. It was animated to look like the action computer game Grand Theft Auto. But they replaced the character's normal actions of anger and crime with opposite redeeming actions. The song, You Give a Little Love starts when our character throws some money in the guitar case of a street musician and he starts singing it. It builds from there to a loud musical chorus with an animated cast of hundreds all dancing in the street and singing the words from the song. The version of the song in the commercial features vocals by Moses Patrou.

• The episode "Dissolution" of Spaced, a British situation comedy written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, pays a clever and brief homage to Bugsy Malone. A cake fight occurs during Daisy's birthday dinner. The waiter signals angrily to the pianist to end the fight. The brief piano piece heard at the end of Bugsy Malone's final splurge gun fight and as an incidental throughout the movie is played.

• The 13th track on British rapper Dizzee Rascal's 2007 album, Maths + English, entitled 'Wanna Be' references the Bugsy Malone track 'So You Wanna be a Boxer'.

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Cast

* Not credited on-screen. Scott Vincent James Baio (born September 22, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor, who is perhaps best known for his work on the sitcoms Happy Days and Charles in Charge. ... Florrie Dugger is an actress notable for playing Blousey Brown in the film Bugsy Malone in 1976. ... Alicia Christian Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962)[1] is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. ... John Cassisi (b. ... This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Andrew Paul (born Mile End, London, 17 March 1961) is a British actor best known for playing PC Dave Quinnan in the ITV drama The Bill for 13 years. ... John Rafter Lee is a voice actor credited for works in Anime series such as Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex (as Pavlo Zaitsev in episode 16 of that series) and several others. ... Dexter Fletcher on the set of GamesMaster, of which he hosted only one series. ... Bonita Melody Lysette Bonnie Langford (July 22, 1964) is an English actress and entertainer. ... Mark Curry (born 27 August 1961 in Stafford, England) is a British television presenter. ... Kathryn Apanowicz (born 1960) is a British actress best known for her 1980s television appearances in the BBC soap operas, Angels and EastEnders. ... Louise English (born London, England) is a British actress perhaps best known as Benny Hill’s leading lady and the featured performer with Hill’s Angels on The Benny Hill Show[1], and for her many leading roles in musical theatre productions. ... Philip Daniels (born October 25, 1958 in Islington, London) is an English actor. ... Jonathan Scott-Taylor is a retired English actor. ...

Songs

• "Bugsy Malone"
• "Fat Sam's Grand Slam"
• "Tomorrow"
• "Bad Guys"
• "I'm Feeling Fine"
• "My Name is Tallulah"
• "So You Want to Be a Boxer"
• "Ordinary Fool"
• "Down and Out"
• "You Give a Little Love"
• "That's Why They Call Me Dandy"
• "Show Biz"
• "We Could Have Been Anything (That We Wanted To Be)"

External links

• Bugsy Malone at the Internet Movie Database