The most underrated film ever made. Phenomenal performances. What a way to go out for Paul Newman.

Such an under rated movie! In every aspect it's crammed with little details all over the place, without any direct attention being drawn to it. Perfect casting to top it off as well.

Enjoyed that! Never clicked the reference to water and death when I watched it. I can totally see the jump from graphic novel to film though in the scenes. Artists love the moody, dark but with less detail needed drawings. Another great American film showing how life was very tough back then. If you had a job you were very grateful for it and the food it provided. No wonder crime thrived with such wealth inequality. My Dad used to tell me stories his Dad and Grandad told him about 19th-early 20th Century life. People used to die of simple diseases because of very poor diets. Crowds would travel miles to work for food on their farm during harvest and were very well fed reminding me of Afghanistan at harvest. One family lived in the caves in the cliffs at the foot of their farm and Christians would donate clothing and food to help. In really bad times they were joined by other families and someone got murdered over the better cave. Horrible times. The Highland Clearances lasted over a century where the clan chiefs betrayed their peoples and forced them off their lands. It was mostly all over by time Ireland had its terrible famine. That sounds a long time ago but through family memories it was just a few generations ago and people still live in hard times in the world.

Saw this with my late dad when it was released in 2002. Really enjoyed the historical background.

Sweet. A movie like this never crossed my mind to review. What a great movie

So glad you're doing this one. Amazing movie 🤘

My favorite part of this whole movie is when Jude law first gets the call to kill hanks but spare the kid and he sit there on the phone drawing a little kid with a sad face.

The background is 50/50. Time period, Quad Cities, was true that there was a gangster influence, more on the Illinois side, but there was a solid bunch down in Davenport. Bix Beiderbecke, was also a local hometown hero was a prominent figure, as well as Looney. Tom Hanks character was based, and built up. His real characters name was Dan Drost. Looney had a local operation, and political machine. Back in those days, the cities were a bit rougher... I could go on, but its in the local history, dug down deep in libraries, the streets, and older buildings of the Quad Cities- Rock Island, Bettendorf, Davenport, and Moline. The scenes are local, and the architecture is mostly all there. Max Collins is an old local QC writer. I had the pleasure of meeting him a number of times through the years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Patrick_Looney en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Allan_Collins

I would love to see you breakdown 2004 WWII film "Downfall" starring Bruno Ganz

Another great episode! Staying with the genre, maybe Public Enemies, The Highwaymen, Dillinger, The Untouchables as possible suggestions.

One of my favourites. A modern classic. You should review Seabiscuit as part of your Depression era movies.

The bathroom assassination scene always bugged me with how fake that 1911 is. The hammer stays down for both shots, and the slide doesn't action.

I LOVE this movie. Awesome to see u guys cover it!

I live in Davenport, Iowa, part of the Quad Cities. We're effectively part of the same urban area as Rock Island, where the film's subject was. I always loved that they changed "John Looney" to "John Rooney" because it's too unbelievable.

At 9:45, it could have been mentioned that the film is based on a graphic novel by the same name. Basing films on graphic novels has a lot of advantages, as the panels can often function as story boards to give unique shots that the director and cinematographer can use in the film. The graphic novel was inspired by the Japanese manga "Lone Wolf & Cub", by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima. This a story about a father taking his toddler on a path of revenge. It was published in a pocket book format, much in the same way as the one you show. Though it has some epic samurai sword action, the core is the human stories that they tell about the people the father and son meet through their journey.

As always, warm yet articulate and informative. Cheers. Also, great editing, Andy

Fond memories of this film. My grandparents took me to see it. I was around 12-13 years old.

You seem like a fun and interesting Teacher for the kids!! This, in my opinion, is one of the best films ever made.. I, like you, have watched this film many times and still love it just as much as the first time I saw it.. If you haven't done a historical study of "The Talented Mr. Ripley" 1999 version, I highly recommend that one also!

My favourite movie of all times! 🥇 Thank you for your historical insight! Appreciate the movie now even more…

You're the best man keep it up!!!

I would love to see you do a break down of boardwalk empire. Lots of history and of course some Hollywood fiction.

Daniel Craig played a South African Nazi in The Power of One (1992). That was the first place I saw him. You wouldn’t know he’s British from that one either. It’s heavy on the “white savior” trope, but interesting.

I wish I had a 1911 that fires multiple shots with the hammer down...

This movie was depicting Rock Island when viewing John Looney 's (Rooney) home, the Sullivan home, the drugstore, the school, the gunfight outside the hotel. The names of the businesses were actual Rock Island businesses at the time. The beautiful home that was supposed to be Rooney's was selected because of it's similarity to Looney’s home in Rock Island. Yes, the movie was filmed in Chicago but the locations would have been starting in Rock Island moving east to Chicago. The movie is based on the graphic novel by Max Allen Collins who didn't live far from Rock Island. This made it very easy for Collins to research. In spite of the story being based on young Michael, who didn't exist, it did introduce Mike Sullivan who was loosely based on Danny Dorst, Looney’s right hand man. Going to Chicago to visit AL Capone's man, Frank Nitti would be quite likely. The actual gunfight took place in broad daylight downtown Rock Island. Connor Looney was killed by his dad's men near the hotel. My great-great aunt was an eye witness. Many of your references to how things would have been in Chicago may be true but several of those references were actually taking place in Rock Island.

I inherited this very gun, the Savage .32. Not easy to find parts for Cool review Dr Jared. I'll have to watch this movie again. It's been 20 years. Forgot all about it.

Wasn’t expecting this one! Great movie and breakdown.

I enjoyed this flick. Thanks for doing this one

Really like your choice this time, really liked the artwork and scenery of this movie, like all of Paul Newman movies, and that new kid Hanks not bad either

You should review the highway men. Its about the search for Bonnie and Clyde.

Not sure if you mention this later in the video, but the soundtrack was magnificent in this film. Also, your comment on the material culture is bang on, I'm an Australian archaeologist, so I often look at the material culture portrayed in period films I watch. The best I ever saw was the Hell on Wheels series. I hope you take an indepth look at that one mate as it's right up your alley!

One of the cars from the film resides at Ford's Garage restaurant in Dearborn, Michigan--just around the corner from Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village if you get up this way.

Saw this movie the first time on tv back in 2006 and fell in love whit it.

Didn't know Daniel Craig was British? - "it's called acting" (Dominic West, The Wire). Daniel Craig was actually a somewhat controversial casting in the UK for Bond, the character is not blond and blue-eyed and very few people foresaw how successful he would be in the role. At around that time, someone loaned me a copy of Layer Cake (2004), a British gangster film starring Craig. Not a genre I enjoy at all (The Long Good Friday is the exception that proves the rule), so I was reluctant to even watch it, but I was curious to see if Daniel Craig was made of the right stuff to be Bond. He's actually a proper trained actor and one of the best Bonds because of it. The other one I rate for the same reason is Timothy Dalton.

That was interesting - it's not my favourite genre or historical period, but I can really appreciate the use of period locations and the props that were used. There are KZfaq videos showing today's kids getting completely flummoxed by phones as recent as the 1970s with rotary dials on them and can't understand even after figuring out how to dial the number that lifting the receiver is necessary first to open the line. I'm curious if the WW2 era M1A1 Thompson could be easily broken down in the same way as the original. There's a film called Operation Daybreak (1975) about the assassination of SS commandant of Prague, Reinhard Heydrich, by British trained and equipped Czech agents using an early model (Mk 2 in the film, Mk 3 in reality) Sten machine-carbine, broken down into parts until moments before the planned ambush of Heydrich's car on a street corner. I think in the event the gun jammed and they had to use a grenade to finish the job, but it showed how a weapon like that could be carried in a bag or coat pockets if it was broken down.

I was honestly surprised that the other two books didn't get picked up for sequels.

yes it is a great film. i thought this type of art had passed. When i saw this I got a new hope for hollywood talent.

Do "Cinderella Man" and also HBO's "The Survivor" please.

Just watched the movie in order to watch this video. Didn’t expect to get misty eyed at the ending

I got news for you, banks still don't "look good" today. One too many bailouts by the taxpayer.

great film.. Tom hanks and Paul Newman! something that i thought was curious was the large room with lots of people (men?) sitting in rows reading a newspaper..

Looking for a movie to watch one day and came across this one. Never heard of it but it starred Tom Hanks and I thought Ok. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Surprised that I hadn't heard of this one, it's a really well-made movie, story, visually, the actors and the performances. One of my favorites.

Great film. Fun fact about the Volstead Act: contrary to popular belief and history...consumption and possession of alcoholic beverages was NOT illegal. The production, distribution and sale were. In fact wealthier people to include President Hoover stocked their basements so well, that they could continue drinking almost until Prohibition was repealed.

Awesome film, great cinematography, art direction and history within the film! I liked that Conrad Hall won an Oscar, but thought Thomas Newman, who did the music score, should have won an Oscar as well, awesome score.

I've not seen this one either, so this should be interesting...

Please review the two Battle of Midway movies 1976 or 2019, thanks in advance

This was a very good movie. You never hear anyone talk about it.

Do "The Wind That Shakes the Barley"

The Thompson Sub Machinegun used in WWII was a much cheaper made version of the weapon that was the 1921 model.

They hadda clean up the La Salle St bridge, it’s all rusty now

The firearms depicted in the movie are almost like another character. Someone did their research on the time period. One thing that did disappoint me when I first saw this movie is the execution of Daniel Craig’s character by Tom Hanks’ character. When Hanks shoots Craig in the bathtub, his 1911 Colt automatic doesn’t cycle the slide. Tom Hanks pulls the trigger for a follow up shot and the pistol fires. Interesting that Michael Sullivan’s character uses the Thompson sub machine gun as his primary firearm and a Colt 1911 as his primary handgun. Same caliber, .45 ACP. He only had to carry one caliber for both firearms.

Reel History: once or twice a year can you do a chat selected video? We could put up 3 or 4 movies and then we'd all vote on them via a poll vote. Just an idea.

Watch The Revenant (2015) historocal accuracy asside its a very good movie

I wish the Quad Cities could have gotten a little more love in this review. Rock Island (where the Rooneys and the Sullivans live and rule) is one of the 4 Quad Cities, on the Mississippi and the border with Iowa. This would have been about 4 hours away from Chicago in those days before interstates. The Rock Island mob was under the control of the Chicago Outfit, just as the Des Moines, the Kansas City, the Milwaukee and the Minneapolis mobs were.

32:45 *Nighthawks

A portrayal of Al Capone is included in the deleted scenes.

13:09 Unfortunately, kids are still exposed to high levels of violent crime in parts of Chicago today, though I don't know how the rates compare with the 1920s. I wonder how much of the violence today can be blamed on prohibition of drugs.

What goes around comes around is also a Bibleism like Perdition. Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.

Great movie, but the cadence of the dialog and the dialog itself seems to be a tad contemporary, maybe I'm wrong here, but it seems a bit.....off. Other than that, outstanding movie.

I wonder if Pablo Escobar got the idea of building good will in poor neighborhoods with charity from Capone.

People were smart enough to blame the bankers.

29:47 Can anyone say, "Welfare" or maybe "Social Security"? Anyone??

I did not realize it was Jude Law.

The tommy gun was not as accurate as shown in that scene where he unloads in the rain. He would have shot EVERYTHING but those guys - okay, he might have hit them eventually. That part of the movie took me completely out of the film, but only until Paul Newman's performance reeled me back in. The accuracy shown was more akin to the BAR.

Your a history guy and your wrong right from your intro. It’s not in Chicago it takes place in Rock Island IL on the Mississippi River.

Good film, but the surviving son does come off as rather unsufferable, and it feels like the wrong child was killed.

Too bad you guys didn't have a Tommy Gun to showcase at the end of this episode.

It's not Chicago, dude, it's Rock Island! Jeezus, do your due diligence!

To me, it's very jarring to cut away to your face. Instead, can't you show the example in mind and feature your narration while we look at it. Not watching any more, sorry.

Those who can do. Those who can’t. Teach.