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Originally Posted by Nat
Richard Widmark, one of the original on-screen gangsters, along with Jimmy Cagney. I believe that was the film where he famously pushed his wheelchair-ridden mother down a flight of stairs.
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Close enough for gov't work. It was actually someone else's wheelchair-bound mother he pushed down the stairs, giggling all the while. It is indeed Widmark as the bat**** crazy gangster Tommy Udo in nineteen-fourty-something's
Kiss of Death.
And Widmark just died last week, hence the
.
And I was born in '67. I'm just an old movie wonk, I guess.
But I don't get the Pitt reference. There was a god
awful remake some years back of the movie, with Nicky Coppola-Cage as a much more sympathetic Udo and the redheaded dude from NYPD Blue and one of those CSI shows in the Victor Mature role (which had been changed from a rat on the run to a fibbie undercover).