One of the benefits of working the late shift is that you get to see all the old movies. This was Cagney in "Maschine gun Kelly" The movie is a gold-mine for SR despite not having any Punk into them

The movie has a beautiful car "chase" where three police cars follow Cagneys Mother, changing jobs and coordinating over the radio. Nice example how the good guys (aka NPC) might get at the job. Ma had a hunch in the end but wasn't totally sure.

The prision part (Illinois State prison - Where's Elwood) was also mine-able for a "SR in Prison" game, as was Cagneys idea to get an alibi for murder. A perfect one, state approved


Another Useful Cagney Films: "Angels with dirty faces" with Spencer Tracy. Cagney plays the former urchin turned criminal that is idolised by the next generation, Tracy the priest. Interesting ending. nice character ideas


Any other recommendations of old movies to mine? And I don't mean the "This is almost SR-style" movies like Ronin/Heat/etc that we hash over in similar threads. I am thinking of old style pieces that one normally won't think of like Rat's Nest

The "top of the world" scene was in, and inspired the end of Ricochet, which is an underrated Denzel Washington movie back when John Lithgow played villians.

Isn't Angels with Dirty Faces the movie Kevin watches in Home Alone?

Yes it is.

I personally would recommend A Pickup on South Street as a good reference for more everyday interactions among "street" contacts...it's basically a Red Scare movie set in NY slums...a pickpocket happens to accidentally wind up with paydata (microfilm) that takes him in way over his head, and KGB comes after him with a vengeance. I could definitely see adapting that story for an SR adventure.

Likewise, I think The Warriors (yeah yeah, it was as recent as 1979) is a great inspiration for SR gang culture. Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" is the classic "screwed by your Johnson" scenario, though perhaps a bit less adaptable. Still, it's a great film, and you should see it if you haven't already, just on GP.

The Third Man, Double Indemnity, Dark Passage, The Maltese Falcon, and Casablanca are all relevant films to the subject, in my opinion.

Chuck Norris in "The Hitman." A cop undercover inside the seattle mob. Gets caught up in the mob war between Italians in Seattle and Quebecois in Vancouver.

No cyber but a good mob war setting. He has a gun that MUSt have been the inspiration for the Remington Streetsweeper.

Movies for inspiration?

Home alone, for when your runners need to defend an area, and have time to prepare. Those theives would have been dead several times over by the end of the movie.

Pretty much anything with Bogart. Especially "The Malteze Falcon" and "The Big Sleep"

Both are cases of a runner- Boggart- trying to figure out what is going on while people try to kill him. Apparently on the set of "Big sleep" the actors were confused by the script and just trusted the writer and director.

SLJames:

The "top of the world" phrase was from 1949's "White Heat", in which James Cagney played "Arthur 'Cody' Jarrett", a FICTIONAL psychopathic criminal with a mother complex.

"Machine Gun Kelly" (1948), starring Charles Bronson as "George R. 'Machine-Gun' Kelly", was based upon real life. Kelly, whose real name was George Kelley Barnes, was small-time bank robber and bootlegger who, among other things, orchestrated the kidnapping for ransom of Charles F. Urschel, a wealthy Oklahoma businessman. The kidnapping took place at 11:15 P.M. on Saturday, July 22, 1933, while Urschel and his wife were entertaining friends, Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Jarrett.

Both men were kidnapped, as the kidnappers did not know which one was Urschel. Mr. Jarrett was released, returning home at 1:00 A.M. the next day, July 23rd. Urschel was held for $200,000; the ransom was paid on July 30th, and Urschel was released the following day.

Kelly's gang was eventually captured in August and September of 1933.

Kelly is probably best remembered for inventing the term "G-Man" (short for "government man", which to him meant a revenue agent--that is, an operative of the BATF). Upon his capture, he raised his hands and shouted "Don't shoot, G-Men!". Popular culture uses the term as a euphemism for FBI agents, but technically, it could be used as a slang term for any Federal law-enforcement officer.

Twenty-one people were convicted in the case, receiving the following sentences: 6 life sentences (including Kelly); the ones who did not receive life sentences received jail time totalling 58 years, 2 months, and 3 days.

Kelly died in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, on July 17, 1954, of a heart attack; his wife, Kathryn, was released from prison in Cincinnati in 1958.

End history lesson.

--Foreigner

That's what you get for translating titles. The german title for "White Heat" ist "Maschinenpistolen" - "Maschine Pistols/SMG's"

Another one "French Connection". Mean job on the cop, classical chase using Chicagos Elevated.