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Various Television Recordings (1999-2002)
About this film
More from the blank tape collection; this time, it is a Jewish Gangster marathon of sorts. Showcased here are: A&E Biography: Bugsy Siegel—A&E—March 14, 1999 Jack Perkins is the host of this portrait of the mobster who helped build the Las Vegas Strip. All the commercials and promos were paused out of this one; the date is flashed at certain intervals, which is the only way to know when this broadcast was recorded. ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA—AMC—October 25, 2002 One of America's greatest gangster chronicles was Sergio Leone's mesmerizing portrait of two best friends, Noodles Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and Max Bercovicz (James Woods), who make Jewish ghetto children prominent in the world of organized crime in New York, seen here as part of the Movies in the Afternoon block. Inevitably edited for television, this is (thankfully) a broadcast of the 229-minute European cut of the film; in America, Warner Bros. heavily altered and butchered this film without the involvement of its director, with everything rearranged in chronological order, and several scenes truncated or cut entirely for no reason. The U.S. cut of the film was, of course, widely panned by everyone who saw the unedited…
Directors & creators
A&E Television Networks, AMC Networks, Discovery Communications, Warner Bros., Regency Entertainment (USA), Inc., Liberty Media
Subjects
A&E Biography, Bugsy Siegel, Once Upon a Time in America, A&E, AMC, Dutch Schultz, True Stories, Discovery Civilization Channel
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