- Director: James Goldstone
- AMG Rating:
- Genre: Crime
- Movie Type: Gangster Film, Crime Comedy
- Main Cast: Johnny Addie, Leopold Badia, Fat Thomas Rand, Fran Stevens
- Release Year: 1971
- Country: US
- Run Time: 96 minutes
- MPAA Rating: PG
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
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| Author | Jimmy Breslin |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
| Publication date | 1969 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 249 pp |
| ISBN | 0-09-102080-8 |
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| Directed by | James Goldstone |
| Produced by | Robert Chartoff Irwin Winkler |
| Written by | Jimmy Breslin Waldo Salt |
| Starring | Jerry Orbach Leigh Taylor-Young Jo Van Fleet Lionel Stander Roz Kelly Robert De Niro Irving Selbst |
| Music by | Dave Grusin |
| Cinematography | Owen Roizman |
| Editing by | Edward A. Biery |
| Release date(s) | 1971 |
| Running time | 1 hr. 36 min. |
| Language | English |
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight is a 1969 novel written by Jimmy Breslin and a film of the same name based on the book and released in 1971 starring Robert De Niro. The novel is a roman à clef of the life of Joe Gallo whose fictional counterpart is played by Jerry Orbach in the film.
This Mafia comedy tells of the member of an Italian cycling team (played by a young Robert De Niro) who gets lost in New York. He soon finds himself in trouble with the local Mafia and so masquerades as a priest.
This film is one of De Niro's earliest. Originally, Al Pacino signed up to play the part of Mario Trantino, but this was later given to De Niro when Pacino was given the part of Michael Corleone in The Godfather. De Niro subsequently dropped out of The Godfather, having been cast as Paulie Gatto - which opened the doors for his return to the Godfather series with The Godfather: Part II.
External links
- The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight at the Internet Movie Database
- The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: A Novel at Amazon.com
- [1] Review on Rotten Tomatoes
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