Mad Dog Coll (1961)
2.9 of 5 from 46 ratings
1h 28min
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- Synopsis:
The film is a heavily fictionalized treatment of the life of Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll Curran (John Davis Chandler), who was born in 1908 in County Donegal, Ireland. In the film, Coll is depicted as growing up with an abusive father who beats and ridicules him (the film opens with him machine-gunning his father's gravestone), and started a street gang at a very young age, which led in turn to organized crime. He is portrayed as a psychopath, incapable of fear or compassion, who is never more happy than when he is recklessly shooting people with his tommy gun or feuding with the fellow mobster Dutch Schultz (Vincent Gardenia) over whisky hijacking. The film ends with Coll being shot down by the police after Schultz puts a contract on him, but in fact he was arrested, tried, released, then later killed by associates of Lucky Luciano because he was making too much trouble for the syndicate. The incident where he allegedly was involved in the accidental shooting of a five-year-old boy (which led to his nickname in the press) is incorrectly associated with him shooting his way out of an attempt on his life (two boys hanging around the docks are killed), when in fact it happened as a result of a kidnapping he was accused of being part of. Dutch Schultz is depicted by Vincent Gardenia, who was 15 years older than Chandler - Coll was only seven years younger than Schultz. - Actors:
- John Davis Chandler, Kay Doubleday, Brooke Hayward, Neil Nephew, Jerry Orbach, Vincent Gardenia, Telly Savalas, Glenn Cannon, T.J. Castronovo, Leonardo Cimino, Joe Costa, Ronald Dawson, P. Barney Goodman, James Greene, Joy Harmon, Richard Velez, Ron Weyand, Peggy Feury, Gene Hackman, Stephanie King
- Directors:
- Burt Balaban
- Producers:
- Edward Schreiber
- Writers:
- Leo Lieberman, Edward Schreiber
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
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