
Johnny Dangerously(1984)
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.



Bruce Davison
Dolin T. Pike

Susan George
Baby

Bruno Kirby
Flash

Anthony Franciosa
Charlie Karkas
Robin O'Connor
Peaches

Pat Corley
Sheriff Joe Cozy
Van Proyen
Wilbur

Sunshine Parker
Old Geezer

Rebecca Balding
Doris Ann

André Gower
Boots
Kiss My Grits is a comedy, adventure film released in 1982 exploring themes of mobster, on the run. Directed by Jack Starrett, it stars Bruce Davison, Susan George, Bruno Kirby. A man heads for Mexico with a mobster's girlfriend.
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Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise.

Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. and soon realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt.

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

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