{"id":1833,"date":"2006-01-30T00:24:51","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T00:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1833.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T17:09:02","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T17:09:02","slug":"gangster-no1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2006\/01\/30\/gangster-no1\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Gangster No.1<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 1960s, Freddie Mays (David Thewlis) is the quintessential gentleman ganster.  Ruthless, impeccably dressed, and with a reputation for style.  The unnamed ganger of the title is played by Paul Bettany (as a young man) and Malcolm McDowell (as his older self, 30 years later).  Freddie Mays takes on this gangster as a young thug, and crafts him into one of his sharp-dressed, tough-as-nails crew.  But Gangster wants more than that&#8211;he craves the power that Freddie Mays has, his money, his lifestyle, his easy way with women.  He burns himself up with this obsession.  And when he is finally in a position to take it all for himself, he discoveres that the victory his hollow.  It&#8217;s a powerful and brutal film, with a great&#8211;and highly disturbing&#8211;performance by Paul Bettany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 1960s, Freddie Mays (David Thewlis) is the quintessential gentleman ganster. Ruthless, impeccably dressed, and with a reputation for style. The unnamed ganger of the title is played by Paul Bettany (as a young man) and Malcolm McDowell (as his older self, 30 years later). Freddie Mays takes on this gangster as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_35_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}