Bugsy Malone (1976)

Bugsy Malone (1976)
Directed by Alan Parker
Produced by Alan Marshall
Written by Alan Parker
Paul Williams (Lyrics)
Starring Scott Baio
Florrie Dugger
Jodie Foster
John Cassisi
and Martin Lev
as Dandy Dan
Music by Paul Williams
Cinematography Peter Biziou
Michael Seresin
Editing by Gerry Hambling
Studio Rank Organisation
Goodtimes Enterprises
Robert Stigwood Organisation
Distributed by Fox-Rank (UK)
Paramount Pictures (USA)
Release date(s) September 15, 1976 (USA)
Running time 93 min.
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Budget £1 million

Here's the basic "shtick" of Bugsy Malone: it's a gangster picture enacted by children. Acted out before scaled-down sets, the film details the career of Bugsy Malone (Scott Baio), who rises to the top of the criminal ladder in 1920s New York. Whenever gunfire is called for, the kiddie crooks substitute whipped cream for bullets. Paul Williams contributes several songs, which are performed by adult singers and lip-synched by the pint-sized actors. The cast includes John Cassisi as diminutive Capone clone Fat Sam, and then-13-year-old Jodie Foster as the sultry nightclub thrush Tallulah. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide



Does anybody know who sings this song?

To some surprise I don´t like it. I´m no rigid puritan and this is by no way a ´musical for pervs´ as somewhere else stated. But the idea of making a kids-playing-mobsters film and exposing children as objects the way it´s done with these nightclub dancers is a self-contradiction. Sorry, I can´t watch Tallulah and her sisters without thinking about what intentions the directors might have had. I know it´s very popular to present day in the US, school plays and so on. So maybe I was wrong.