Story of Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, a notorious gangland killer in the 1930s.Story of Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, a notorious gangland killer in the 1930s.Story of Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, a notorious gangland killer in the 1930s.
John Davis Chandler
- Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll
- (as John Chandler)
Neil Burstyn
- Rocco
- (as Neil Nephew)
T.J. Castronovo
- Ralphie
- (as Tom Castronova)
Peggy Feury
- Mother Coll
- (uncredited)
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- Writers
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- TriviaFilm debut of Gene Hackman.
- GoofsWhen Vincent Coll was killed, he was using a phone booth in the London Chemists drug store at Eighth Avenue and 23rd Street. He was reportedly talking to Owney Madden, who kept Coll on the line while the call could be traced. Soon enough, a limousine pulled up outside. While Bo Weinberg waited behind the wheel, Leonard Scarnici and Anthony Fabrizzo stepped out. One of them waited outside and the other walked inside. After telling the cashier to "Keep cool, now", the killer withdrew a Thompson submachine gun from under his overcoat and went back to the phone booth where Coll was. The gunman opened fire, raking up one side of the glass booth and down the other. A total of fifteen bullets were dug out of Vincent Coll's body at the morgue; even more may have passed clean through him. The killers were chased unsuccessfully up Eighth Avenue by a detective squad that had pulled up just after Coll was killed. (For some reason, the film instead shows the police trapping and killing Coll in the phone booth after he fires at them with a Tommy Gun.)
- ConnectionsFeatured in Best in Action: 1961 (2018)
- SoundtracksMad Dog Coll
Written by Stu Phillips and Eddie D. Trush
Sung by Hal Waters
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Late 50s gangster film revival
John Chandler would have made a great Joker with his toothy, sneering smile, sniveling voice and angular facial features. I don't know how Cesar Romero was cast for the Batman show on ABC or if they had other actors also on their list. While Cesar was jovial and circus clowny, Chandler would have been creepier, horrifying and too reptilian for the little TV viewers. His Mad Dog is depicted as a woman abuser and rapist. What I liked about this film was the gritty, grimey, sleazy depiction of gangsters as psychopaths and the gold digging women who orbit around them. While Martin Scorsese has built a film career idolizing and romantizing Mafia scum in glossy films, this film zeros in on their repulsive inhumanity.
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- jameselliot-1
- Jan 9, 2020
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- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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