Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Thomas 2022-03-14 08:01:02

The 1930 gangster film Little Caesar. In the early days of sound films, recording equipment and cameras were both cumbersome, with little camera movement, only panning shots and a small amount of tracking (because there was a large box to hide the camera to cover its noise, and it was not easy to...

Clara 2022-03-14 08:01:02

The history of American gangster or crime films can be traced back to Griffith's time. His 1913 film "The Swordsman of the Poor Lane" is considered the first gangster film in American cinema. Later, Sternberg's "Underworld" can be said to be an earlier depiction of the gangster career that appeared...

Wellington 2022-03-14 14:12:31

1. The 1931 gangster film actually involves homosexual innuendo; 2. The gangster characters are still American individualistic heroes who struggle with independence and the environment; 3. The end credits praise the Virgin before dying, reflecting Hollywood's compromise with Catholic audiences and traditional morals. This moral compromise is almost absent in Howard Hawks' Scarface.

Elvie 2022-03-28 09:01:13

The older, more boring, classic gangster films that laid the foundations of the genre have no personality whatsoever.