Wise Guys (MOD)

Wise Guys (MOD)In a change of pace from his offbeat thrillers and Hitchcock homages, Brian De Palma directed this blend of comedy and action starring Danny De Vito, Ray Sharkey, Joe Piscopo, and Harvey Keitel. Two low rent New Jersey mobsters who are best friends are ordered to kill each other by a mob boss, but neither can bring himself to do the dirty deed. After stealing from a Mafia don (Dan Hedaya) and then trying to multiply their ill gotten gains at the horse

Jessica Drummond (Stanwyck) is lonely and uninterested in the suitors her mother

He doesn't have a tidy life insurance policy

pieces together jigsaws of crime

Hutton (Where Eagles Dare)

Free and Easy is now paired with its Spanish-language version Estrellados

shoulder taping

the desperation of men who hire themselves as taxis to piggyback fares through the mire

But what grabs interest now (and the attention of critics and studio execs then) is the presence of two dynamic stars

and the future of civilization hangs in the balance

Marshal John Brazos

rents a private room and makes a most ungentlemanly suggestion

Lee Thompson did it with Hayley Mills in Tiger Bay