Index Page numbers for stills from the Big Combo , The, 10, 188 , 210 , 212 , films are in italics . 216 , 217 , 220 , 317 Big Heat , The , 188 , 213 - 214 , 216 - A Double Life , 62 217 , 219 - 220 , 330 Agee , James , 125 Big House , The, xiv AI Capone , 287 Bloody Mama , xiv , 9, 287 , 291 - 294 Aldrich , Robert (The Grissom Gang , passim Kiss Me Deadly ), 188 , 198 , 210 , Bogart , Humphrey , as Roy Earle in 261 , 267 - 272 passim , 276 , 277 , High Sierra , 61 , 72 286 , 293 Bonnie and Clyde , 7, 16, 19, 192 , Alloway , Lawrence , xi , 131 194 , 217 , 285 - 294 passim , 295 - America , 119 , 186 , 228 , 230 , 254 , 307 . 333 . 351n 258 - 259 , 261 , 276 , 324 . See also Boorman , John (Point Blank ), 309 , Gangster , as American ; Ideology , 311 , 312 , 313 , 318 , 322 , 323 , 325 , American ; Society 352n American Dream , 22 , 67 , 77 , 238 - Branda , Marlon , as Don Corleone in 239 , 241 - 242 , 253 , 299 , 329 The Godfather , 331 American life , 1 - 2 , 5 - 6 , 22 , 110 - Brodine , Norbert (Kiss of Death ), 111 , 147 , 186 , 210 , 215 , 238 , 245 , 129 , 130 258 - 262 , 279 , 309 , 314 , 326 , Brother Orchid , 18 - 19 349n Brothers Rico , The , xv , 215 - 220 American psyche , 103 , 115 , 125 , passim , 235 , 248 , 249 , 250 - 264 , 167 , 299 . See also American 288 , 303 , 333 Dream Brute Force , xiv , 191 , 313 Angels with Dirty Faces , xiv , 18, 1 44 , 1 93 Cagney , James Antihero , 66 . See also Hero as Cody Jarrett in White Heat , 44 , Asphalt Jungle , The, 333 192 , 193 , 205 as Tom Powers in The PublicEn - Baby Face Nelson, 286 emy , 1 5 . 1 7 . 43 , 54 . 55 . 335 Bacon, Lloyd . 18 Call Northside 777 , 131 Baxter. John. xi Capone , AI , 15. 20 Beatty, Warren, as Clyde Barrow in Chinatown , 13 Bonnie and Clyde, 295, 302, 304 Christian elements , 15 , 116 - 117 , Christian elements (cont .) Dall , John , as Bart Tare in Gun 132 - 133 , 142 - 143 , 145 - 146 Crazy , 152 - 153 , 157 Cities , 6 - 7 , 64 , 144 - 145 , 186 , 235 . Dead End , 18 See also Society ; Underworld ; Death , the gangster 's , 60 , 152 , 344n World , the gangster 's cinematic functions of , 161 , 215 , Citizen Kane , 84 272 - 273 , 310 - 312 City Streets , 64 as enlightening , 75 , 103 Class elements , social , 6 , 31 , 46 , as inevitable , 38 , 41 , 53 52 , 78 , 165 , 340n . See also Social as "' Iife . " 119 . 170 . 181 . 310 - 311 mobility ; Socioeconomic realities as meaningless , 175 , 180 , 298 - Color , 292 - 293 , 318 , 322 , 352n 299 Comic elements , 31 - 34 , 54 , 56 - 57 , as neurotic drive , 281 - 282 100 , 167 , 171 , 182 , 197 - 198 , 204 , rationales for , 47 , 50 , 66 , 74 , 103 , 266 , 303 , 317 , 335 . See also 190 Humor siqnificance of , 65 , 69 , 82 , 83 , 85 . Communism , 207 , 210 , 217 , 223 - 91 , 118 , 158 - 159 , 1 64 , 1 65 , 1 73 , 227 passim , 246 206 - 207 Conformity , 177 - 178 , 202 , 211 , 245 Decades Conte , Richard , as Eddie Rico in the twenties , 15 , 18 , 327 The Brothers Rico , 250 the thirties , 3 , 10 , 15 , 18 , 19 , 59 , Cool Breeze , 333 125 , 197 , 211 , 239 , 287 , 296 , 300 , Coppola , Francis Ford (The Godfather 345n , Godfather II ), 293 , 332 the forties , 9 , 10 , 119 , 154 , 168 , Corman , Roger (Bloody Mama ), 9, 186 , 189 , 197 , 207 , 209 , 267 , 292 , 293 302 - 303 , 344n Cred its the fifties , 4 , 8 , 10 , 13 , 119 , 168 , Bonnie and Clyde , 307 191 , 192 , 197 , 205 , 207 , 209 - 221 , The Brothers Rico , 264 223 , 228 , 232 - 233 , 234 , 235 , 240 , D . O .A ., 190 244 - 245 , 250 , 261 , 267 , 271 , 272 , Force of Evil , 147 - 148 278 , 282 , 285 , 306 , 317 , 328 , Gun Crazy , 165 346 - 347nn , 348n High Sierra , 82 the sixties , 192 , 285 , 286 , 292 , The Killers , 112 - 113 295 , 297 , 298 , 302 - 303 , 305 , 306 , Kiss Me Deadly , 284 314 , 318 , 321 , 323 - 324 , 326 , 333 Kiss of Death , 133 the seventies , 10 , 285 , 292 , 326 , Little Caesar , 42 332 99 River Street , 263 Democracy , 16, 22 The Phenix City Story , 263 - 264 Depression , the , 15, 20 , 22 , 38 , 59 , Pickup on South Street , 233 60 , 69 Point Blank , 325 Dillinger , xiv , 8, 68 - 69 , 287 , 291 , The Public Enemy , 58 292 , 293 White Heat , 207 - 208 Dillinger , John , 68 - 69 Crime , organized . See Organized Director 's cinema , 292 - 293 crime ; Syndicate Dirty Harry , 287 , 291 Criss -Cross , xiv , 13 , 168 , 169 , 184 , D . G .A ., xv , 165 , 167 - 172 , 174 - 190 , 188 , 292 , 343n 191 , 199 , 207 , 212 , 263 , 312 , 317 Cukor , George (A Double Life ), 62 Donlevy , Brian , as DiAngelo in Kiss Cummins , Peggy , as Annie Laurie of Death , 121 , 124 Starr in Gun Crazy , 152 - 153 Dream , American . See American Curtiz , Michael (Angels with Dirty Dream Faces , 20 ,000 Years in Sing Dream , the gangster 's , 41 , 43 , 61 - Sing ), 129 , 193 63 , 71 - 72 , 75 , 89 , 92 , 95 , 102 , 360 Index 117 , 159 , 161 , 164 , 237 , 238 , passim , 234 , 277 , 329 , 348n 239 , 309 , 312 , 319 Dreams and film theory , 1, 2, 15- 16, Gabree , John , xi , 47 59 , 101 , 303 , 312 , 318 , 336 - 337n Gabriel Over the White House , 16 Dream technique , 107 , 289 , 309 , Gangster figure , the , 2, 14, 17- 18, 313 , 324 91 , 121 , 125 , 159 , 244n . See also Dunaway , Faye , as Bonnie Parker in Hero Bonnie and Clyde , 295 , 302 , 304 as amateur , 154 , 160 , 303 Durgnat , Raymond , 278 , 349 - 350n , ambiguities of, 95 , 175 , 220 352n as ambitious , 26 , 27 , 30 , 38 , 49 , 136 , 239 Eckert , Charles W ., 337n as American , 9 , 23 , 251 EQQel in Q, VikinQ , 12 changing concept of , 6, 83 , 90 , 98 , Eisenstein , Sergei , 188 116 - 120 , 125 - 126 , 147 , 149 , 171 , Enforcer , The , xiv 189 , 197 , 205 , 211 , 213 , 228 , 244 , Expressionism , 105 , 231 262 - 263 , 314 , 339n , 348n as comic , 31 - 34 Failure , 6 , 45 , 93 , 101 , 237 - 238 , as crazy , 165 , 171 - 172 , 183 , 195 , 318 198 , 202 - 203 , 211 - 213 , 275 . See Fairbanks , Douglas , Jr., as Joe also Psychology , the gangster 's Massara in Little Caesar , 28 as idealistic , 61 - 62 , 63 , 71 , 74 , Faith , 116 , 132 , 140 . See also Christian 101 . See also Dream , the elements gangster 's Family , 8, 48 , 53 , 56 , 70- 73 , 119 , as indistinguishable from non - 123 , 151 , 198 - 199 , 251 , 253 , gangster , 175 , 189 - 190 , 211 - 212 , 256 - 257 , 259 , 290 , 326 , 330 - 331 , 214 , 227 , 244 , 317 , 328 - 329 346n . See also Fathers ; Mothers VS . the outlaw , 3 Family Rico , The, 333 as outsider , 70 , 147 , 156 - 157 , 198 , Fantasy . See Dreams and film 205 , 212 , 214 , 222 - 223 , 246 , theory 349n Farber , Manny , 341 n, 346n , 352n as self - aware , 31 , 34 , 137 , Fathers , 8 - 9 , 47 , 124 , 127 , 248 , 170 - 171 , 190 , 228 , 321 252 , 330 , 338n as self - made man , 16 , 253 Fifties . See Decades sexual I ife of , 50 , 51 , 91 , 298 - 299 , Film criticism , xii - xiv , 308 , 351 - 305 , 335 . See also Sexuality ; 352n Women , gangster 's relationship Film nair , 12 , 13 , 59 , 61 - 63 , 83 , 84 , with 98 , 101 , 103 , 104 , 108 - 109 , 124 , as tragic , 23 , 74 , 75 , 197 , 206 , 219 125 , 130 - 131 , 144 , 156 , 169 , 174 , Gardner , Ava , as Kitty Collins in 177 , 183 - 184 , 187 , 188 , 191 - 192 , The Killers , 91 207 , 209 , 210 , 218 , 221 , 268 , Garfield , John , as Joe Morse in 343n , 345n . See also The Killers ; Force of Evil , 135 , 136 , 344n D .G.A .; Visual style , in The Killers Genre , gangster /crime , ix -xi , 60 , , DiG .A . 191 , 270 Force of Evi I , xv , 11 5 , 116 - 119 , central themes of , 5 - 10 , 71 134 - 148 , 1 70 characteristic patterns in , 3 - 5 , 82 , Forties . See Decades 136 Freedom , 59 , 65 , 68 , 77 , 82 , 150 , cold -war phase of , 245 224 , 305 compared with other arts , 12, 169 . Fuller , Samuel (Pickup on South 216 , 293 , 309 Street ), 188 , 210 , 216 , 220 , 221 , conventions of , 189 . 296 , 322 222 , 223 - 235 , 226 , 228 , 230 - 233 Index 361 Genre , gangster /crime (cant .) Hellinger , Mark (High Sierra , The definition of , 3 Killers ), 60 , 81 early phase of , 18- 19, 21- 23 , 59 , Hemingway , Ernest , 84 68 , 81 , 103 , 211 - 212 , 344n Hero , 16 , 20 , 67 , 88 , 222 , 228 , 236 , evolution of , 6 , 16 , 18 , 59 , 60 , 64 , 254 , 350n . See also Antihero 65 , 67 , 81 , 116 - 117 , 172 , 216 , the atypical , 62 - 63 , 121 , 137 , 192 , 218 , 221 , 235 , 243 , 244 , 278 , 221 286 - 287 , 291 , 294 , 345n , the classic , 23 , 82 , 197 350 - 351n the modern , 292 , 294 , 310 , 318 future directions of , 332 - 335 the non -gangster in fifties films , in nonfilm media , xiv - xv 171 , 209 , 210 , 211 , 214 , 217 , 219 , origins of , 4, 15 230 , 234 - 236 , 245 , 248 , 250 , 255 , politics of, 10- 11, 317 274 - 275 , 282 postwar phase of , 108 , 115 , 161- the romantic , 68 , 173 162 , 165 , 167 , 174 , 207 . See also He Walked by Night , xiv , 10, 12, 13, Film noir ; Decades , the fifties 184 . See also Film noir prestige of , xiv , 1, 307 High Sierra , xv , 12, 14, 59 - 66, relevance of , 1 , 334 67 - 82 , 83 , 117 , 118 , 170 , 173 , uses of , 4 , 80 , 134 , 135 , 142 , 155 , 1 93 , 1 99 186 , 211 , 218 , 247 - 249 , 254 , 310 , Hit Man , 333 323 Hodges , Mike (Get Carter ), 325 as vehicle , 4 , 60 , 65 , 71 - 74 , 79 , Homosexuality , 29 , 310 , 316 - 317 116 , 1 32 , 142 House on 92nd Street , The , 128 Genre films , ix , x , xi , 14 , 134 Humor , 80 , 112 , 131 , 189 , 275 . See criticism of , ix , x , 334 - 335 , 353n also Comic elements Getaway , The, 293 Huston , John , 60 , 341 n Get Carter , 325 , 333 Godfather , The , 285 , 287 , 290 , 291 , I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang , 292 , 293 , 326 - 332 313 Godfather II , 285 , 291 , 292 , Iconography , 19, 25 , 60 , 131 , 266 , 326 - 332 324 Golan , Menahem (Lepke ), 351 n Icons , 7 , 9 , 17 , 101 , 121 , 133 , 144 , Griffith , D , W " 15 171 , 177 , 180 , 197 , 267 .