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You have to really understand italian humor to get into the film otherwise one can get lost and it wont be really funny. Lionel stander, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung, jerry orbach. The movie, based on jimmy breslins book about the mafia in south brooklyn, is a story that proves to be too frail and thin for stretching into a movie. The gang that couldnt shoot straight trailer youtube. At least they didnt shoot ten innocent people by mistake. The gang that couldnt shoot straight by jimmy breslin, paperback. The gang that couldnt shoot straight is the story of papa baccala, a brooklyn mafia boss, and kid sally palumbo, a wouldbe capo who couldn it became a major motion picture that provided robert deniro with his first film role. His face is scarred from a bungled arson attempt that ended in an explosion. The trump team is looking like the gang that cant shoot straight. The gang that couldnt shoot straight 1971 a brooklyn mobster jerry orbach and his gang try to rub out their rivals, as in the jimmy breslin novel.
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