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The Mob still rules

Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in The Godfather
  • Posted at 12:17pm
  • 28 March 2008
  • by AndrewCollins-RT

Some say that seminal TV series The Sopranos has made the Hollywood gangster movie redundant. But the popularity of Ridley Scott's recent hit American Gangster suggests the genre still has a home on the big screen.

Beginning this week, Sky Movies Modern Greats presents a season of some of the very finest Mob films, together with a new documentary American Mafia: from Street to Screen. Highlights include The Departed, GoodFellas, Scarface and The Godfather, as well as Sergio Leone's Once upon a Time in America.

These are brutal stories by definition – and don't go looking for a surfeit of strong female parts – but the best gangster films explore abiding themes such as masculinity, family and institutional corruption. It's not just guns and wise guys.

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