Tom Regan, ein Berater eines Verbrecherbosses aus der Prohibitions-Ära, versucht, den Frieden zwischen den kriegsführenden Mobs zu wahren, gerät aber in geteilte Loyalitäten.Tom Regan, ein Berater eines Verbrecherbosses aus der Prohibitions-Ära, versucht, den Frieden zwischen den kriegsführenden Mobs zu wahren, gerät aber in geteilte Loyalitäten.Tom Regan, ein Berater eines Verbrecherbosses aus der Prohibitions-Ära, versucht, den Frieden zwischen den kriegsführenden Mobs zu wahren, gerät aber in geteilte Loyalitäten.
- Auszeichnungen
- 4 Gewinne & 16 Nominierungen insgesamt
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesWriters Joel Coen and Ethan Coen suffered writer's block while writing Miller's Crossing (1990). They took a three week break and wrote Barton Fink (1991) a film about a writer with writer's block. The name of Tom Regan's residence is "The Barton Arms". In one of the newspapers an article reads 'Seven Dead in Hotel Fire,' another reference to Barton Fink.
- PatzerWhen Tom throws the glass at the mirror in the woman's washroom, the cracks in the glass change between shots.
- Zitate
Tom Reagan: Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.
- Crazy CreditsThe opening credits list production companies, the title, and the main cast. The crew is not listed until the ending credits, starting with a director credit.
- Alternative VersionenAlthough there is no mention of this on the packaging, the Criterion Blu-ray edition released in 2022 is over two minutes shorter than the theatrical release version. Among the cuts are Frankie's line 'Jesus, Tom' after Tom hits him in the face with a chair, and the line 'Take care now' said by Lazzare's messenger after Tom is subjected to a beating.
- SoundtracksDanny Boy
Music by Rory Dall O'Cahan (uncredited)
Lyrics by Frederick Edward Weatherly (uncredited)
Sung by Frank Patterson
Ausgewählte Rezension
I was blown away by this film the first time I saw it. After giving myself a couple hours to shake off my dumbfounding amazement, I became addicted. This film has everything. It's witty in its dialogue, suspenseful in its action and violence, beautiful in its cinematography, and (being so like the Coen brothers) it can make you laugh and cringe in the same scene.
The script is superb. The characters are absorbing and the dialogue (as some reviewers have already observed) flows like words in a book. You have to watch some scenes more than once to totally get what's going on, and even then you still might miss something.
The acting is top-notch, even down to the lowest thug. Gabriel Byrne plays the antihero Tom to lonely perfection and Marcia Gay Harden's hooker without a golden heart is excellent. The rest of the cast is great as well, including good mobster Albert Finney and a funny cameo by Steven Buscemi. However, the show is stolen threefold by Jon Polito as the erratic Italian underboss Johnny Caspar, John Tuturro as the slimy "schmatta" Bernie Bernbaum and J.E. Freeman as Caspar's dark, vicious adviser/thug Eddie Dane. Jon Polito's monologue in the very beginning on ethics and Tuturro's desperate pleas at Miller's Crossing are both powerful scenes, and Freeman commands the screen whenever he is on.
My rating is a 10/10. The best part about this movie is that it gets better and better every time you watch it. Oh yeah...the Danny Boy scene is reason enough to watch this movie anyway.
The script is superb. The characters are absorbing and the dialogue (as some reviewers have already observed) flows like words in a book. You have to watch some scenes more than once to totally get what's going on, and even then you still might miss something.
The acting is top-notch, even down to the lowest thug. Gabriel Byrne plays the antihero Tom to lonely perfection and Marcia Gay Harden's hooker without a golden heart is excellent. The rest of the cast is great as well, including good mobster Albert Finney and a funny cameo by Steven Buscemi. However, the show is stolen threefold by Jon Polito as the erratic Italian underboss Johnny Caspar, John Tuturro as the slimy "schmatta" Bernie Bernbaum and J.E. Freeman as Caspar's dark, vicious adviser/thug Eddie Dane. Jon Polito's monologue in the very beginning on ethics and Tuturro's desperate pleas at Miller's Crossing are both powerful scenes, and Freeman commands the screen whenever he is on.
My rating is a 10/10. The best part about this movie is that it gets better and better every time you watch it. Oh yeah...the Danny Boy scene is reason enough to watch this movie anyway.
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Details
- Erscheinungsdatum
- Herkunftsland
- Sprachen
- Auch bekannt als
- De paseo a la muerte
- Drehorte
- 619 Gravier Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA(exteriors: Shenandoah Club)
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Box Office
- Budget
- 14.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 5.080.409 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 28.202 $
- 23. Sept. 1990
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 5.080.409 $
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