Miller\' S Crossing
Miller' S Crossing is a film of gangster carried out by Joel and Ethan Coen, left in 1990.
Synopsis
Tom Reagan is the right-hand man of Leo O' Bannion, godfather in the Mafia. The day when Johnny Caspar comes to complain near the caïd intrigues from Bernie Bernbaum, all skids. Bernie Bernbaum is indeed the brother of been engaged of Leo, Verna, with which Tom Reagan has itself a relation.
Comment
The history of Miller' S Crossing proceeds in 1929 in an American city which is not named. The scenes were turned to the Orleans News in Louisiana in order to benefit from the old architecture of the city and its tram lines.Its complex intrigue tells the voyage of Tom Reagan, the right-hand man of the one of the boss of the underworld Irish. The character is ambivalent, an enigmatic protagonist who hesitates between plotting or not against his owner. Whatever its choice, it will be implied and partially person in charge of a bloody war of gang.
Miller' S Crossing is a film truffle of Allusion S to many other films of gangster and black films. The plans of opening are for example a reference to those of the Parrain . Many situations, characters and dialogs are derived from the work of Dashiell Hammett, in particular of its novel the Key of glass and its film adaptation of 1942. the red Harvest , a novel of the same author who tells the internal war of a gang in a corrupted American city initialized by the secret machinations of the main character is another source of important inspiration.
In 2005 the Time Magazine regarded Miller' S Crossing as one of 100 best films since the creation of the newspaper.
Card-index
- Realization: Ethan Coen
- Production: Joel Coen
- Scenario: Joel and Ethan Coen
- Production: Ethan Coen
- Distribution: 20th Century Fox
- Music: Casing Burwell
- Photography: Barry Sonnenfeld
- Assembly: Michael R. Miller
- Decorations: Refusals Gassner
- Costumes: Richard Hornung
- Country of origin: the United States
- Format: Colors - 1,85:1 - Dolby SR - 35mm
- Kind: Comedy, police
- Coming out date: September 21st 1990 (the United States)
- Lasted: 115 minutes
Distribution
- Gabriel Byrne : Tom Regan
- John Turturro: Bernie Bernbaum
- Marcia Gay Harden: Verna Bernbaum
- Albert Finney: Leo O'Bannion
- Jon Polito : Johnny Caspar
- J.E. Freeman: Eddie Dane
- Steve Buscemi : Mink