Wonderful stuff, thank you so much for posting! I was 12 when this came out, just the right age :-) Loved Bugsy, wanted to be Tallulah, and can still sing along to every song. Great to see some of the old gang, although sad to hear Martin Lev's fate (Dandy Dan). Really enjoyed the "boys" dancing together again (part 4, I think), and everyone singing at the end. Thanks again!
i was in this in 6th grade. they made me play one of the Down and Out guys...then realizing i was too tall...and NOt a guy o.O...they gave me one of the speak easy dancers :)
Not to take anything away from the yanks because they were all great in it but it didn't surprise me wen I just learnt that the director Alan Parker was British..as a Brit I remember watching this in the 80s and loving it and still do but it had a familiar blighty feel to it always which I can't put my finger on...they don't make em like this no more as the saying goes..♥️..👍👊👍❤️
noo no way maybe when im older because my mum will hear me even though im quiet did you see a video of me singing of course you did lol and im sorta quite lol
its a movie that adults are afraid to say they watch, let alone like. I saw this in the theter nevertheless, the theater was mostly empty - i think people didnt knpw what to make of it.
RIP Alan Parker (1944-2020), he was a great director who couldn't be pigeonholed to just one genre. The man made a kids gangster musical, then went onto do Midnight Express, Fame, Birdy, Angel Heart and Mississippi Burning. He was simply versatile.
Just watched this with my 16 year old daughter, she loved it! She was giggling over that it was a all kid cast playing as adults. She’s been singing all the songs! Still my favorite!
As a child of the 70's and early 80's about average 9-13 years younger than these actors in the movie, I watched this movie every chance I could when it was in heavy rotation on television and cable in the late 70's & early 80's and I was absolutely enthralled seeing young kids act adult, the pedal cars, the music etc. I just watched the whole movie again after many decades now in December 2022 as it available for free to watch for Amazon prime members here in the States this month. I have been reading all the comments here on youtube for all 5 parts of this movie cast reunion, and have seen many calls for them to do a remake of this and I disagree. I think they made and cast this movie to perfection and feel in today's day & age, a remake would be something completely different than intended and diminish & ruin the spirit of this masterpiece of Alan Parker. I am perfectly content with Bugsy Malone just being the unique movie it is in a class off it's own for each new generation to discover and appreciate.
"Brown" "Sounds like a loaf of bread!" "Blousy brown" "Sounds like a stale loaf of bread!" when our class in year 6 heard that (Especialy me) we laughed our pants off xD it was funny... good ol' memmories...
When I was 6 years old I was making more money than my old man running small bottles of booze from neighborhood bars and grocery stores to apartments in Brooklyn.
This movie was a big part of my childhood ...my brother was just watching this about 15 minutes ago and i was in the other room and i heard a scream ...and i looked at my mum and was like thats bugsy malone ...haha ...proves how many times i have watched this movie !
This movie was so well written and cast. These children far surpassed many of the adult actors of today. I don't like musicals and even this one won me over. Loved this movie as a child. I still want a splurge gun.
Omg completely agree... I loathe musicals. I can't stand the long drawn out needless singing for no apparent reason that adds nothing to the story line . But Bugsy Malone is sublime... simply sublime.
You Give A Little Love, is one of the most truest song I’ve ever heard. I love it so much, combined with the closing scene, makes me cry with happiness. (My kids make fun of me every time. Lol)
+Matt, King of the North "The 53-year-old Bensonhurst-bred tough guy accepted cash, lavish trips and free work on his home in East Northport, LI, in exchange for steering contracts to certain firms. He was given two to six years in prison on the money-laundering rap and another one to three for the bribery, but the sentences will run concurrently." Dec 1 2016
Alan Parker' pictures are always a huge suprise to taste and sensibility. Each one has its own grammar and appeal. In general they are perfect. Bugsy Malone, Angel Heart, Mississippi Burning, Angela' Aches, Evita and so one... If there is a Lubitsch's Touch, there is of course a Parker's Imagination. It is possible to observe his competence checking the extras wardrobe. I love his work!
most unexpected, possibly favorite thing i've seen on youtube. fat sam looks exactly like he did as a kid. i can't believe so many people have seen this movie!
Una de mis películas favoritas de mi infancia . Y Jodie Foster mi actriz favorita . Lastima que no le gusten los hombres , yo la ame desde bugsy Malone ... Años que nunca olvidaré .
Fat sam: u spend more time putting yourself up than there is time in the day! Tallulah: Listen honey, if i diddnt look this good you wouldnt give me the time of day. Fat sam: Ill see you in the car! LOL! XD
I adore this movie. This was my childhood. I used to dress up and sing "my name is tallulah" all the time. I still know all the words to every song! My children will definitely be watching this in the future!
It needs to be redone as a tribute to the director Alan Parker. It will still be splurge guns, pedal powered cars, non-alcoholic beverages and younger actors but they will be around 12-18 (Or possibly using Adults) rather than around 10-13. Because modern society and film ratings have changed since the 70s, it would have to aim for the PG rating. I think Sony and Columbia pictures would get the rights to film it.
Hate musicals. This is brilliant. Saw it when I was 7, and now, being waay older, it's still as great as in 76. I have the video, soundtrack. I want the ending scene n song, played at my funeral. So perfect.
This film, hands down is one of the best film musicals ever!! I was a kid, watching kids doing what I wanted to do, and it was believable. I didn't sit there and think "Oh, these are kids" I was thinking..."These are kids being adults" because the acting, the music the directing, the singing was just absolutely positively amazing! I had the soundtrack growing up, I danced all the dances, we knew all the words to the songs! I knew when I saw this film what I wanted to do for the rest of my life and that was to be an actress and to direct and sing and dance. I never made it, but I had soooooooooooooooooooooo much fun trying to get there. Thank you so very much for sharing this. Paul Williams is and always will be such a bright star, They are all the best! It made me believe that "We could have been anything that we wanted to be"
Ive just watched all five, thanks so much for sharing them, ive enjoyed watching it so much and it brings back all the childhood memories singing along to all the songs x
Thank you for the look at then and now at the cast Alan Parker thank you now can you come up with the cast watching their grandchildren do a Bugsy Malone in 2008
Im from UK and remember seeing this documentary on tv. I have always hated Musicals except for Bugsy. When we saw this when we were kids it was a revelation. Kids as grown ups! It is a shame that today that it could be associated with the most dreadful type of monster. I am in my 40s now and have the film in my collection. When I see this film it is through the eyes of the 12 year old that is still in me. Enjoyable fun, Thank you for posting this.
Weirdly enough, I always got the idea the kids were 14/15 but looked a couple years younger. Now that I see that Jodie and co. were 12 it really would stir up some trouble in this day and age, what with the romance, sexualisation of the dancers, etc, thankfully in those days we were less PC.
i remember seeing john cassisi and jodie foster at disneyland in the 70s when i was about 15 .probably when this movie came out.they were with their parents and no one recognize them except me because i the saw the trailers for this film on t.,v.jodie was just a kid then and i saw her close up. she was a cutie then.
Why was Louise English ignored? she ended up getting worldwide recognition in the Benny Hill Show then had a successful stage career. Jodie Foster always seemed too "grown up" for this film, really strange how she tries to say her mother was against peroxide hair after saying it was ok for her daughter to play an underage prostitute in the depressing Taxi Driver that failed to stop child prostitution but got a president shot, why do the makers of this show sully it with clips of that instead of showing some of the fun/happiness Louise brought instead? Wasn't it weird how after jinxing president Reagan Jodie Foster then got Benny Hill fired (whilst his show was requested by 140 countries, much more in public demand than grim Taxi Driver) after The Accused was released and a weird wave of heavy feminist judgement came along with it then it was curtains for Bennys Show, perhaps Jodie demanded the producers not contact Louise to cover up a secret vendetta against her old boss and even Louise herself for standing by Benny? The trailer for the Accused makes a point of saying the rape took place at a bar called The Mill that i wonder if was a hint at Benny Hill and the bar a metaphor for his actually harmless show that was axed six months after the Accused release? In a way Jodie can't be blamed as she was of course a kid herself when groomed by those creepy hollywood leftists to indirectly represent activism all her life (rather than be a nice fun likeable entertainer singing and dancing Like Louise) but there would've been a point she grew up and realised what they were all doing but didn't rebel against them, maybe Jodie was always scared after being put in the presence of types like DeNiro and Scorsese by her own mother?
To be fair... even if she is a giant star... in this movie, Louise English appears in... one scene, has 2 lines and.... that. I mean, she appears for like less than 30 seconds.
@@ubiergo1978 Gee that's fair, Louise had a credited speaking part in a specific role she was requested for having that young ballerina skill and then she was seen by more people on the BHS in the world than Foster in her grim marginal films, nevermind fact it's called after they were famous and Louise was a shining example one would expect the makers of a show with that premise to include her after doing so well, nah it strikes of inferior cliqueiness.
@@wotdoesthisbuttondo But Jodie Foster had a main role, and even the people with low roles like the gang, had a presence in the movie. I didn't check if the series did a Benny Hill episode but there, totally, include her. But in Bugsy Malone?, even the Fat sam's dancer girls were more part of the movie. You'd put her where in this documental?, I don't know, adding Louise to this one would be so off because of her role. And if you look is, after they were famous: Bugsy malone... Louise got her fame in Benny Hill more than in Bugsy Malone but... anyway...
@@ubiergo1978 You may as well demand Louise be taken off the film credits denigrating her role and not being allowed to join in with happy memories with other kids involved in it's making.
@@wotdoesthisbuttondo yes, exactly. That was precisely what I was about to dema... What the freaking hell are you talking about?!?! I was just trying to give you a little perspective about her role in the film and why you'd need like a big event for her to be called for her role IN this movie... Apparently that was impossible,because if this is what you understood of everything I said.... Sigh, forget it.
I just did a acting camp we did Bugsy Malone! And this was my first real acting experience! And I got the part of Bugsy! And we finished and preformed the play in 4 days! It was so fun but I am really sad that it is over!
