Once Upon a Time in America


Once Upon a Time in America


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Once Upon a Time in America

(1984)





Director:
Sergio Leone

Plot:

Epic tale of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York, from childhood, through their glory years during prohibition, and their meeting again 35 years later.

Complex tale of the life of New York gangsters from the period of the early 1900's through prohibition, and climaxing in their subsequent reunion in the 1960's. Loyal childhood friends enter a life of crime together that inevitably leads to tragedy.

Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David 'Noodles' Aaronson and his lifelong partners in crime; Max, Cockeye and Patsy and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s, to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the past.

Cast:
Robert De NiroDavid 'Noodles' Aaronson
James WoodsMaximilian 'Max' Bercovicz
Elizabeth McGovernDeborah Gelly
Joe PesciFrankie Manoldi
Burt YoungJoe
Tuesday WeldCarol
Treat WilliamsJames Conway O'Donnell
Danny AielloPolice Chief Vincent Aiello
Richard BrightChicken Joe
James HaydenPatrick 'Patsy' Goldberg
William ForsythePhilip 'Cockeye' Stein
Darlanne FluegelEve (as Darlanne Fleugel)
Larry Rapp'Fat' Moe Gelly
Richard ForonjyOfficer 'Fartface' Whitey (as Richard Foronji)
Robert HarperSharkey
Dutch MillerVan Linden
Gerard MurphyCrowning
Amy RyderPeggy
Olga KarlatosWoman in the Puppet Theatre
Mario BregaMandy
Ray DittrichTrigger
Frank GioBeefy
Karen ShalloLucy Aiello
Angelo FlorioWillie The Ape
Scott Schutzman TilerYoung Noodles (as Scott Tiler)
Rusty JacobsYoung Max / David Bailey
Brian BloomYoung Patsy
Adrian CurranYoung Cockeye
Mike MonettiYoung Fat Moe
Noah MoazeziDominic
James RussoBugsy
Frankie CasertaBugsy's Gang
Joey MarzellaBugsy's Gang
Clem CasertaAl Capuano
Frank SistoFred Capuano
Jerry StrivelliJohnny Capuano
Julie CohenYoung Peggy
Marvin ScottInterviewer
Mike GendelIrving Gold
Paul HermanMonkey
Ann NevilleGirl in Coffin
Joey FayeAdorable Old Man
Linda IpanemaNurse Thompson
Tandy CronynReporter 1 (as Tandy Cronin)
Richard ZobelReporter 2
Baxter HarrisReporter 3
Arnon MilchanChauffeur
Bruno IannoneThug
Marty LicataCemetery Caretaker
Marcia Jean KurtzMax's Mother
Estelle HarrisPeggy's Mother
Gerritt DebeerDrunk
Jennifer ConnellyYoung Deborah
Alexander GodfreyNewstand Man
Cliff CudneyMounted Policeman
Paul Farentino2nd Mounted Policeman
Bruce BahrenburgSgt. P. Halloran
Mort FreemanStreet Singer
Sandra SolbergFriend of Young Deborah
Jay ZeelyForeman
Massimo LitiYoung Macrò
Susan SpaffordNurse
Salvatore BillaOne of Beefy's Thugs (uncredited)
Matteo CafisoBoy in Park (uncredited)
Nelson CampNewspaper Salesman (uncredited)
Scott CoffeyTeenager (uncredited)
Francesca LeoneDavid Bailey's Girlfriend (uncredited)
Chuck LowDeborah Gelly's Father (uncredited)
Ron NummiWaiter (uncredited)
Fabio Roscioli (uncredited)

Writing By:

Harry Grey(novel "The Hoods")
Leonardo Benvenuti &
Piero De Bernardi &
Enrico Medioli &
Franco Arcalli &
Franco Ferrini &
Sergio Leone
Stuart Kaminsky(additional dialogue)
Ernesto Gastaldi uncredited

Produced By:

Claudio Manciniexecutive producer
Arnon Milchanproducer




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