Scarface/Taxi Driver/Casino/Donnie Brasco/Lock, Stock DVD

This Greatest Ever... Gangsters Box Set features the following films: Scarface: Al Pacino gives an unforgettable performance as Tony Montana one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film in this gripping crime epic inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title. Scarface follows the violent career of a small-time Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire... Taxi Driver: In Martin Scorsese's classic 1970s drama insomniac Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) works the nightshift driving his cab throughout decaying mid-'70s New York... City wishing for a real rain to wash the scum off the neon-lit streets. Chronically alone Travis cannot connect with anyone not even with such other cabbies as blowhard Wizard (Peter Boyle). He becomes infatuated with vapid blonde presidential campaign worker Betsy (Cybill Shepherd) who agrees to a date and then spurns Travis when he cluelessly takes her to a porno movie. The increasingly paranoid Travis begins to condition himself for his imagined destiny a mission that mutates from assassinating Betsy's candidate Charles Palatine (Leonard Harris) to violently saving teen hooker Iris (Jodie Foster) from her pimp Sport (Harvey Keitel). Travis' bloodbath turns him into a media hero; but has it truly calmed his mind? Casino: Robert De Niro Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in Director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas in 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multi-million dollar casino operation - where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice... Donnie Brasco: The true story of an FBI undercover agent (Johnny Depp) who becomes Donnie Brasco 'The Jewel Man' to infiltrate one of the mob families. Donnie manoeuvres his way into the confidence of ageing hit man Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino) who trusts Donnie and vouches for him to the mob. But Lefty and Donnie become friends when they should be enemies. As Donnie moves deeper and deeper into the Mafia chain of command he realises he is not only crossing the line between federal agent and criminal but it also leading his friend Lefty to an almost certain death sentence... Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels: Streetwise charmer and cardshark Eddy (Nick Moran) walks into the biggest card game of his life carrying a stake backed by the life-savings of his three best mates Tom (Jason Flemying) Bacon (Jason Statham) and Soap (Dexter Fletcher). Eddy is the sharpest player on the circuit but the game is set-up and Eddy leaves owing underworld boss Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty) half a million. Harry gives Eddy a week to come up with the money before he starts taking fingers as collateral. Eddy's dad JD (Sting) can cancel the debt by handing over his bar lock stock and barrel to his old adversary Harry JD refuses to give in feeling his street-tough son can get himself out of his own messes. So while Harry sends a couple of petty crooks to steal a pair of antique shotguns to add to his collection Eddy and his mates plan a caper that will enable them to pay off Harry and make out like bandits! In a comedy of errors and a helter-skelter ride through London's gangland the guns cash drugs and identities become all mixed up as a full complement of London's lowlife get involved in a melee which even their menace can't handle. [show more]

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