Saturday, August 9, 2014

Family Enforcer

This blow-dried, double-knit polyester 70s warm-up for GoodFellas and The Sopranos was most likely inspired by Martin Scorsese's early hit Mean Streets (1973). It even features a couple of later Scorsese regulars - future Oscar winner (for GoodFellas) Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent, both playing a couple of local hoods. Has a bit of B movie charm, replete with gratuitous F-bombs and topless dancers and was most likely one of the last of the B drive-in exploitation features before the multiplexes replaced the drive-ins.