Without His Gun He Was Naked Yellow!
George Kelly is angry at the world and scared to death of dying. A career bank robber, Kelly gets his confidence from his Thompson SMG and his girl Flo. After a botched robbery, Flo, Kelly and his gang try their hand at a more lucrative job: kidnapping.
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- John Chardon TMDB · May 20147/10
Lion’s Stare You Down. Machine Gun Kelly is directed by Roger Corman and written by Robert Wright Campbell. It stars Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot, Morey Amsterdam, Jack Lambert, Frank DeKova and Connie Gilchrist. Music is by Gerald Fried and cinematography by Floyd Crosby. George Francis Barnes Junior, AKA: Machine Gun Kelly, was a prohibition era American hoodlum, this movie is an interpretation of his time in the public enemy limelight. Never climbing up to high energy rat-a-tat-tat action levels, Corman’s “mini” biopic none the less breezes along and remains fascinating throughout. The makers paint Kelly as something of a weak willed type of guy who is impotent without his Thompson Submachine Gun. This is a man firmly dangling on the end of the puppet strings being twirled and pulled by his Moll, Flo Becker. Oh he’s not beyond slapping his woman around, or bullying one of his weaker willed accomplices, but Corman and Campbell assure us that Kelly is not to be gloried, even giving him a pathological fear of dying that shows him in this movie form as something of a coward. Of course this is just a movie, and for historical facts and figures et al, folks are warned this is not a bi
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Cast
- Charles BronsonGeorge R. 'Machine Gun' Kelly
- Susan CabotFlorence 'Flo' Becker
- Morey AmsterdamMichael Fandango
- Richard DevonApple
- Jack LambertHoward
- Frank De KovaHarry
- Connie Gilchrist'Ma' Becker
- Wally CampoMaize
- Barboura MorrisLynn Grayson
- Lori MartinSherryl Vito
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- Roger CormanDirector
- R. Wright Campbell Screenplay
- Floyd CrosbyDirector of Photography
- Gerald FriedOriginal Music Composer
- Ronald SinclairEditor
- Roger CormanProducer
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