{"id":24827,"date":"2020-12-04T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24827"},"modified":"2020-12-04T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:45:08","slug":"the-all-time-best-gangster-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24827","title":{"rendered":"The All-Time Best Gangster Movies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2020\/z120420best_gangster_movies.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Todd Gilchrist at Mental Floss posted his choices for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/article\/637900\/best-gangster-movies\">20 Best Gangster Movies of All Time<\/a>.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve seen 14 of the 20, so his list has added to my future viewing plans.<\/p>\n<p>Of Gilchrist&#8217;s picks my top three would be:<br \/>\n1.&nbsp; <em>Godfather<\/em><br \/>\n2.&nbsp; <em>Godfather II<\/em><br \/>\n3.&nbsp; <em>Carlito&#8217;s Way<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My first two slots were easy choices (although a case could be made to reverse their order).&nbsp; The third slot was tougher and I also gave strong consideration to <em>Bonnie and Clyde<\/em>, <em>The Untouchables<\/em>, <em>Goodfellas<\/em> and <em>Miller&#8217;s Crossing<\/em>.&nbsp; It has also made me want to give <em>Eastern Promises<\/em> another viewing.&nbsp; The original <em>Get Carter<\/em> made Gilchrist&#8217;s list.&nbsp; If it had been the Stallone version, it would have made mine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Gilchrist at Mental Floss posted his choices for the 20 Best Gangster Movies of All Time.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve seen 14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24831,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827\/revisions\/24831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}