Dirty Deeds

DVD FEATURES:

• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 (Pre-1954 Standard)
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Bryan Brown - Barry Ryan
       Johnny Hallyday - Marcel
       John Goodman - Tony Testano
       Harvey Keitel - Frankie Zammeti
       Richard Bohringer - Laurent Bastaldi
       Felix Williamson - Sal Cassela
       Kestie Morassi - Margaret
       Albert Dray - Raymond
       Abe Vigoda - Giancarlo
       Gary Waddell - Freddie
       Bille Brown - Senator
       Paul Chubb - Sammy

• Director:

  David Caesar, Brad Mirman

• Producer:

  Bryan Brown, Deborah Balderstone, Jamie Brown, Gary Howsam, Richard Rionda Del Castro

• Screenwriter:

  David Caesar, Brad Mirman

• Cinematographer:

  Geoffrey Hall

• Composer (Music Score):

  Paul Healy, Rupert Gregson Williams

• Editor:

  Mark Perry, Eddie Hamilton

• Production Designer:

  Christopher Kennedy, Gordon M. Barnes

• Art Director:

  Chris Batson, Kim Rennick

• Co-producer:

  Lewin Webb, Juan Montilla Eslava

• Executive Producer:

  Kris Noble, Xavier Marchand, Hugh Marks, Jennie Hughes, Steve Robbins, Jim Reeve

• Costume Designer:

  Tess Schofield, Gersha Phillips

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Liam Egan

• Special Effects:

  John Bowring

• First Assistant Director:

  Jamie Crooks

• Casting:

  Shauna Wolifson

• Line Producer:

  Helen Watts

REVIEW:

• Fitfully engaging from the start, this Australian period caper comedy, decorated in loud Pop Art colors, is sent over the top by an effortlessly polished cast, vividly kinetic cinematography (by Geoffrey Hall, who also shot the energetic cult favorite Chopper), and a commanding performance by Bryan Brown as an inscrutable gangster prone to sudden violence. Tim Rogers' pop-song score is essential, as well. The story glides along as if on roller skates and is edited at an infectious rhythm; somehow writer/director David Caesar manages to pull together several parallel story lines for a climactic convergence that is nothing short of classic. There are laughs -- many of them at John Goodman's moping mobster's expense -- but Brown's menace provides gravity and keeps it from being lightweight. Compare it to any of Guy Ritchie's capers -- Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -- but with happier endings. ~ Buzz McClain, Rovi