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Screenwriter waldo salt had already won an oscar for midnight cowboy, and would go on to write coming home and serpico. Jimmy breslin, upon whose book the movie is based, was. With jerry orbach, leigh tayloryoung, jo van fleet, lionel stander. Maybe the nypd should value marksmanship over diversity in their hiring process. The gang that couldnt shoot straight 1971 region free. The gang that couldnt shoot straight is a comic book of a novel funny, quite politically incorrect from a different era, loosely plotted, populated with onedimensional characters like the water buffalo and big jelly. Jimmy breslins novel, the gang that couldnt shoot straight, was a caricature of a new york mob family.
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The gang that couldnt shoot straight is a very easy, quick read that will have you smiling and chuckling, from beginning to end. The trump team is looking like the gang that cant shoot straight. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. The police succeed in stopping one of the gangs, while the other remains without the boss. Jimmy breslins 1969 comic novel, the gang that couldnt shoot straight, is all the funnier because it is based on the reallife failures of incompetent mobsters.
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