Bernie Bernbaum
John Turturro
Verna Bernbaum
Marcia Gay Harden
Liam 'Leo' O'Bannon
Albert Finney
Mayor Dale Levander
Richard Woods
Clarence "Drop" Johnson
Mario Todisco
Mrs. Caspar
Jeanette Kontomitras
Johnny Caspar, Jr.
Louis Charles Mounicou III
Cop - Brian
John McConnell
Cop - Delahanty
Danny Aiello III
Screaming Lady
Helen Jolly
Gunman in Leo's House
Monte Starr
Gunman in Leo's House
Don Picard
Rug Daniels
Salvatore H. Tornabene
Street Urchin
Kevin Dearie
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Michael Badalucco
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Charles Ferrara
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Esteban Fernandez
Caspar's Cousin
George Fernandez
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Charles Gunning
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David Darlow
Lazarre's Tough
Robert LaBrosse
Lazarre's Tough
Carl Rooney
Man with Pipe Bomb
Jack Harris
Snickering Gunman
Sam Raimi
Cop with Bullhorn
John Schnauder Jr.
Voice (voice)
William Preston Robertson
Mayor's secretary (uncredited)
Frances McDormand
Casino Patron (uncredited)
MIchael P. Cahill
Original Music Composer
Carter Burwell
Director of Photography
Barry Sonnenfeld
Production Design
Dennis Gassner
Rigging Gaffer
Michael F. Burke
Still Photographer
Patti Perret
Stunt Coordinator
Jery Hewitt
First Assistant Editor
Michael Berenbaum
Script Supervisor
Thomas Johnston
Steadicam Operator
Larry McConkey
Production Sound Mixer
Allan Byer
Supervising Sound Editor
Skip Lievsay
Dialogue Editor
Marissa Littlefield
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Lee Dichter
Set Decoration
Nancy Haigh
Costume Design
Richard Hornung
Art Direction
Leslie McDonald
Co-Producer
Mark Silverman
Executive Producer
Ben Barenholtz
Line Producer
Graham Place
Production Manager
Alma Kuttruff
Special Effects Coordinator
Peter Chesney
First Assistant Camera
Angelo Di Giacomo
Transportation Coordinator
William 'Fleet' Eakland
Transportation Captain
Earl R. Hurst Sr.
Production Coordinator
Terri Clemens
Makeup Artist
Katherine James
Hairstylist
Cydney Cornell
Assistant Director
Gregory Jacobs
Editorial Services
Tricia Cooke
Assistant Editor
Tony Grocki
Additional Soundtrack
Sonny Burke
John Chard
The answer my friend is a hat blowing in the wind.
The Coen brothers craft a loving homage to gangster pictures of yore with splendid results. Essentially the plot has Gabriel Byrne as a good - bad guy caught between two rival gangster factions. It's a standard story line that is still providing cinematic water for many a film maker these days, but shot through the Coen prism, with literary astuteness holding court, it's a genre piece of considerable class. A picture in fact that gets better and better with further viewings.
When the Coen's are on form they have the skills to make a grade "A" thriller and blend it with a sort of dry irony. It's like they bite the hand that feeds whilst praising said genre influences to the rafters, but it works as damn fine entertainment. On a narrative level Miller's Crossing molds the Byzantine with the labyrinthine, keeping the complexities just on the right side of the street from that of art for arts sake.
Visually the film is superb, the hard working sweat of the city dovetails impudently with the mother nature beauty of Miller's Crossing the place, a place home to misery, a witness to the dark side of man. All the while Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro and Jon Polito bring an array of characterisations to the party, each one his own man but each craftily proving the folly of man. Marcia Gay Harden, in one of her first mainstream roles, slinks about making the two main boys sweaty, and wonderful she is as well. While Carter Burwell provides a musical score that has a smug (in a good way) self awareness about it.
Style over substance? Yes, on formative viewings it is. But go back, look again, see and sample what is not being said. Pulpers and noirers will I'm sure get the gist. 8/10
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