machine gun mccain

June 6 movie: Machine Gun McCain. Italian mob movie -- by which I mean, a mob movie made by Italians -- starring John Cassavetes, Britt Eckland, Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands. The movie is flawed in some ways. Like for instance, Cassavetes and Eckland have crossed the mob, and are on the run, so what do they do? Go back to LA and walk into his old friend's place in broad daylight? Good idea! But I can't dislike this movie because the acting by Cassavetes and Rowland is so good, and the movie as a whole has such great style. Eckland wears this one dress to the casino that just blew my mind. I spent the whole scene trying to figure out how the dress was constructed. In truth, I'm complaining about the movie now but I really got into it at the time. I think Machine Gun McCain is going to be the standard by which I measure all other mob movies.