Holy mackerel is this a movie. Watched the remastered Encore edition and sat rapt. Two hours and nineteen minutes never went by so fast.
This had been on my list for a long time. I started reading about Dutch Schultz and Vincent “Mad Dog” Coll (Nicolas Cage’s real-life counterpart) and Bumpy Johnson when I was a teenager. I’ve seen a few different versions of the Dutchman’s story, but in that first scene where Richard Gere meets him in a club,…