Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. I had quit the business, because I didn’t like driving into Manhattan. Well, the long and the short of it is that I wanted to play with my friends after school, but it happened to be raining that day, so I went to the city to meet with Alan Parker. I read it, but I just barely read it. I didn’t even want to be there. He was English, but I didn’t even know what that was. He was just this weird guy with long hair, and I didn’t know what he was. [Laughs.] So I sort of read the script, threw it at him, and walked out the door. That was it: I’d gotten the part before I got home. [13] a b Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 357. Income is distributor's receipts, combined domestic and international, as at 31 Dec 1978. Bugsy Malone DVD Special Edition PaulWilliamsCoUK.Plus.com David Chamberlayne. Retrieved 3 June 2010.

film Bugsy Malone makes its Blu-ray debut in August". HighDefDiscNews. 11 June 2021 . Retrieved 12 June 2021. AFI's 10 Top 10 Nominees" (PDF). Archived from the original on 16 July 2011 . Retrieved 19 August 2016. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link)Set in New York City, it is a gangster movie spoof, substituting machine guns that fire gobs of whipped cream instead of bullets. The film is based loosely on events in New York and Chicago during Prohibition era, specifically the exploits of real-life gangsters such as Al Capone and Bugs Moran. Parker lightened the subject matter considerably for the children's market and the film received a G rating in the U.S. Bugsy Malone premiered at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or. It was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on July 12, 1976, by Fox- Rank Distributors, and in the United States by Paramount Pictures on September 15. Although a commercial success in the UK, it was not a financial success overseas. The film received critical acclaim, with praise drawn for Parker's screenplay and direction, its musical numbers, unique narrative and the performances of the cast.

Siskel, Gene (19 November 1976). "... and 'Bugsy Malone,' where kids cut the custard as adults". Chicago Tribune. Section 2, p. 1. a b The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time – #400–301 empireonline.com; Empire Online. Retrieved 3 June 2010. John Cassisi as Fat Sam Staccetto, crime boss. He is dubbed by the press as "The Alleged Mobster King of the Lower East Side". Williams felt that "... the challenge for me was to provide songs that reflected the period... and yet maintained an energy that would hold the young audiences attention." According to Parker, Williams was writing while on tour, recording songs in different cities, and sending the completed tapes to Hollywood. Arriving during the first pre-shoot rehearsals, the songs had to be accepted and used as they were, with voices by Williams, Archie Hahn, and others. Bugsy Malone is an ambitious and largely successful example of creative world-building, with all of the standard gangster film tropes translated into a childhood milieu—right down to the pedal-powered cars. The songs by Paul Williams are hardly accurate for the period, but they're catchy and they work surprisingly well. What doesn't work is that the singing voices are dubbed by adults, which sounds disconcerting when coming out of the kid’s mouths. It’s a rare example of the film not being true to its concept, and while neither Parker nor Williams were happy with the results, they simply ran out of time to do anything differently. The cast is uniformly excellent, even the inexperienced actors, with kids like Babyface (Dexter Fletcher) really standing out—it’s no accident that he was one of the few in the film to make a career out of acting. At 93 minutes long, Bugsy Malone doesn't wear out its welcome, but it does end abruptly and somewhat awkwardly—it feels like Parker ran out of ideas and had to just bring things to a close. Still, the final number by Paul Williams is a classic, and it sends the film off on an upbeat note.

Taking refuge at Fat Sam's Speakeasy, Bugsy and his army disguise themselves as waiters and patrons and await Dan's arrival. Chaos ensues as a massive splurge gun fight erupts and unarmed patrons throw cream pies, covering everyone (except Bugsy and Blousey), but somehow no one gets "finished" this time. Razamataz the piano player is hit from behind and falls onto the keys, striking a single bass note. The tone silences the room, and the cream-covered crowd realize they can all be friends. They perform the final number ("Bad Guys Reprise" / "You Give a Little Love") as Bugsy and Blousey leave for Hollywood. In 2010, UK band Silvery included a cover of "You Give a Little Love" on their second album Railway Architecture, and Olly Murs, runner-up in the 2009 UK series of The X Factor, sampled "So You Wanna Be a Boxer" in his song "Hold On" that can be found on his debut album. The film received eight nominations at the 30th British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film and won three: Best Supporting Actress and Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for Foster and Best Screenplay for Parker. The film also received three nominations at the 34th Golden Globe Awards including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.