No./ 16 The gangster that got me out of movie jail
Jul 05, 2020
3 minutes
JOHN NUGENT
THE STORY OF Josh Trank’s career is as fascinating as anything he’s put on screen (see sidebar, right). At 27, he was the toast of Hollywood with ; within three years, he had a calamity on his hands in the form of . But now he’s back, with the independently produced , a biopic of the Chicago gangster’s final years. In typical Trank fashion, it’s not a safe bet: an unconventional and provocative film showing Capone’s mental deterioration under neurosyphilis, which includes graphic depictions of diarrhoea. Here he
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