Agrega una trama en tu idiomaDischarged from the army, an ex-GI is hired as a hit-man by a crime syndicate that is at war with another Mafia family.Discharged from the army, an ex-GI is hired as a hit-man by a crime syndicate that is at war with another Mafia family.Discharged from the army, an ex-GI is hired as a hit-man by a crime syndicate that is at war with another Mafia family.
- Don Da Vince
- (as Tony Caruso)
- Ben
- (as Bob Phillips)
- Tom
- (as Vic Rogers)
- Antonio Goti
- (as Johnny LaMotta)
- Louie
- (as Louie Ojena)
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- TriviaStar Fred Williamson's M.A.S.H. (1972) co-star Elliott Gould came in for a half-hour's work to help out his friend. Gould completely improvised his part on the spot.
- ErroresJohnny's name is misspelled "Johnnie" on his army name tag.
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Don Da Vince: [Notices the two construction workers have not put up the front sign on their new flower shop] Hey, Carlo! Tell them to hurry up with that sign. It should have been up by now.
Carlo Da Vince: I'll take care of it, papa. Hey, what's taking you assholes so long? What do you think we're paying you, for?
Don Da Vince: Carlo, don't talk dirty! How many times I gotta tell you that? You know I don't like that!
- Créditos curiososDedicated to the veteran who traded his place on the front line for a place on the unemployment line. Peace is Hell.
- Versiones alternativasThe DVD and Blu-ray by Code Red is the 96-minute director's cut that includes differences from the theatrical version released on VHS in the 1980s by Unicorn Video and numerous public domain DVD releases (sourced from the Unicorn tape master). There is a graphic sex scene between Johnny and Nancy, the killings are more bloodier and the climatic karate fight with Johnny and O'Malley is much longer, the scene with Johnny calling Nancy on a payphone is seen before his fight with O'Malley, instead of after, and an ascending helicopter shot is seen before Nancy steps on the landmine.
- ConexionesReferenced in The Cinema Snob Movie (2012)
I love Fred Williamson-- he's like the funky love-child of John Cassavetes and Jim Brown. There may be rambling and fumbled story lines and plot focus, the quality of the production may waver and shift with the tenuous availability of funds, always some friends-doing-a-favor-casting, bizarre and clunky setups, obtuse angles and ham-fisted camera work, self-indulgent faux-introspective montage, and lots of technical sloppiness and cheap shortcuts are all evident throughout his oeuvre. But the fervent passion and pure love for cinema all seem to somehow leak through like tepid, runny kindergarten paste holding everything together by some incredulous force of will. Fred's shrewd and clever will.
Fred may not be easily filed in the same category with directors of such influence and artistic gravitas as Lang, Welles, or Kurosawa, but they probably wouldn't mind hanging out with him over a couple of drinks and some girls.
Mean Johnny Barrows is not a good movie. But it is fun, goofy, dumb, sleazy, cheap, silly and thrilling. For the right pair of eyes that delight in the subtle contextual appreciations of Blaxploitation, Crime/Mob Pictures, or just choice 1970's trashy film-making it is an inimitable masterpiece.
The casting is priceless. Luther Adler is perfect as a post-Godfather era cardboard cut-out patriarch with the additional ludicrous premise of having Roddy McDowall play his own son. McDowall's hairstyle alone is enough to justify purchasing this movie, with the appearance of a melting dollop of brown Cool Whip. He frets and blanches and swallows as a Fredoesque nervous Nellie, uncomfortable with his familial role as oldest son and next-in-line Family Boss.
The astounding Stuart Whitman plays a rival Mob Boss who owns an Italian Restaurant and spends most of the time interfering in the kitchen. His hair also invokes an instinctual fight-or-flight response like Mary-Tyler Moore at an Alice Cooper concert. He has a strange tendency to instantaneously change entire outfits without warning in a singular scene. He also keeps one arm stiffly bent at chest level at all times for no discernible reason whatsoever and in most scenes appears to have been sleeping in his wardrobe, woken up only seconds before filming any of his takes.
R.G. Armstong is undeniably electrifying as the filling station owner who reluctantly gives the jobless and homeless Mean Johnny Barrows employment for no other reason than he needs someone to clean his bathrooms.
And Elliot Gould makes his legendary "Special Appearance" as the worlds most colorful and erudite hobo in motion picture history.
There's lots of music and walking sequences, bad suits, nasty cops, bigotry, ambition, and eating out of garbage cans. There's romance and violence and lots of giant 70's cars pulling in and out of driveways, all inevitably leading up to fisticuffs and gratuitous gun play, of course.
I would say if you have four bucks in change floating around inside your couch or car or even in the pockets of an old coat in storage somewhere and you have developed an appreciation for this enjoyable genre, trade in those rolls of pennies and pick it up! 'Cause at the end of the day, it's all about Fred.
- morganmorgan
- 28 feb 2006
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