One can't forget that this was the Depression, there were no jobs to be had for young Billy of Bathgate Avenue and his gang. Schultz reigned supreme in the Bronx of the Jimmy Walker early Fiorello LaGuardia days. The film is seen through the eyes of its title character who is a young man from the Bronx played by Loren Dean. If you do a search on the web about Schultz and see a film, you'll find Dustin Hoffman looks quite a lot like him in real life. It's very much along the lines of Vic Morrow's performance as Schultz in Portrait of a Mobster, but Hoffman is better. It's a harrowingly accurate portrayal of Schultz who was every bit the hot tempered homicidal maniac Hoffman shows him as. The main reason to see Billy Bathgate is the mesmerizing performance of Dustin Hoffman as Arthur Fleigenheimer better known as Dutch Schultz. Doctorow also authored Ragtime and while this film isn't as gaudy and expensive as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate is an accurate recreation of the times of post Prohibition New York City. Doctorow's historical novel about New York in the Thirties.
Converging mythology and history, one of America's most admired authors has captured the romance of gangsters and criminal enterprise that continues to fascinate the American psyche today.Billy Bathgate is based on E.L.
Doctorow's most convincing and appealing portrayal of a young boy's life. But it is also a world of extortion, brutality, and murder, where Billy finds himself involved in a dangerous affair with Schultz's girlfriend.Relive this story through the title character's driving narrative, a child's thoughts and feelings filtered through the sensibilities of an adult, and the result is E.L.
The product of an East Bronx upbringing by his half-crazy Irish Catholic mother, after his Jewish father left them long ago, Billy is captivated by the world of money, sex, and high society the charismatic Schultz has to offer. In 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old high-school dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. *Dust jacket has heavy creasing and a large sealed tear on upper back. Doctorow FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION RANDOM HOUSEįull sized book club edition identical to the first edition.
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