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    Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, The (1971)

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    Academy Award winner Robert De Niro stars as the Italian bicycle racer who falls in love with a mafioso’s younger sister in the middle of an underworld war being waged by the Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.

    Baccala (Lionel Stander), the mafia don controlling Brooklyn, has survived through attention to detail. Every morning he has his wife start his car in case there is a bomb.

    When he discovers one of his thugs, Kid Sally (Jerry Orbach), is getting greedy, Baccala orders him to arrange a six-day bicycle race at a local armoury. But Kid Sally is a very poor organiser, the race is a disaster, and Sally declares war on Baccala.

    Meanwhile, Mario Trantino (De Niro), the racer Sally has brought from Italy, falls in love with Kid Sally’s sister (Leigh Taylor-Young). Now love blooms as the bodies pile up in this gangland comedy.

    Based on the novel by Jimmy Breslin with the screenplay from Academy Award winner Waldo Salt (Coming Home, Serpico, Midnight Cowboy).

    Kid Sally
    Jerry Orbach
    Angela
    Leigh Taylor-Young
    Big Momma
    Jo Van Fleet
    Baccala
    Lionel Stander
    Mario Trantino 
    Robert De Niro
    Big Jelly
    Irving Selbst
    Beppo
    Hervé Villechaize
    Exmo
    Joe Santos
    Tony, the Indian
    Carmine Caridi
    Water Buffalo
    Frank Campanella
    DeLauria
    Harry Basch
    Gallagher
    Phil Bruns
    District Attorney Goodman
    Philip Sterling

    Director
    James Goldstone

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