The film is played by child actors only and the director of the film purposely lightened the film to make it more available for the children market.
Pretty much the whole film is based inside a speak easy which is owned by a character called "Fat Sam" and it is full of dancing and singing. The film starts with a mobster, namer Roxy Robinson, being hit by a "splurge gun" which is a gun filled with custard. Then, Fat Sam, the boss of the speakeasy, is introduced to a boxing promoter with no money (Bugsy Malone).
The speak easy is basically shot up by Fat Sams rival, Dandy Dan, and splurge a lot of fat sam gang which has now caused the rest of Fat Sams gang to go and see if they can track down their guns.
So, this is a very action packed film. Not only is there dancing, singing and fights but there is also a love story which is thrown into the mix as well. Blousey, a young inspiring singer comes to audition at the speakeasy and Bugsy is smitten flirting with there and everything. but things turn when fat sam girlfriend makes a pass at him, teller, and Blousey catches them.
After many fights throughout the film, it basically ends with everyone deciding that they can all be friends and Bugsy and Blousey leave for Hollywood to start their lives together.
Cast:
- Scott Baio as Bugsy Malone, an Italian-Irish ex-boxer/boxing scout
- Florrie Dugger as Blousey Brown, a sassy young dame interested in Hollywood
- Jodie Foster as Tallulah, Fat Sam's moll, the speakeasy's star chanteuse and Bugsy's old flame
- John Cassisi as Fat Sam Staccetto, crime boss. He is dubbed by the press as "The Alleged Mobster King of the Lower East Side".
- Martin Lev as Dandy Dan, rival gang boss who steals Fat Sam's territory.
- Paul Murphy as Leroy Smith, an African-American tramp who discovers he has a talent for boxing
- Sheridan Russell as Knuckles, Fat Sam's main hoodlum who constantly cracks his knuckles. The only character to actually be killed by the splurge as opposed to "finished".
- Albin 'Humpty' Jenkins as Fizzy, Caretaker at Fat Sam's Grand Slam, tap dancer
- Paul Chirelstein as Smolsky, dim-witted police captain
- Andrew Paul as O'Dreary, dumb policeman
- Jeffrey Stevens as Louis, one of Fat Sam's hoodlums
- Donald Waugh as Snake Eyes, one of Fat Sam's hoodlums
- Peter Holder as Ritzy, one of Fat Sam's hoodlums
- Michael Kirkby as Angelo, one of Fat Sam's hoodlums
- Dexter Fletcher as Baby Face, down and out
- Davidson Knight as Cagey Joe, the boxing gym owner
- John Williams as Roxy Robinson, Fat Sam's best bodyguard, splurged by Dandy Dan's gang
- Bonnie Langford as Lena Marelli, showy, pompous theatre performer
- Mark Curry as Oscar DeVelt, stuck-up theatre producer
- Jonathan Scott-Taylor as News Reporter
- Sarah E. Joyce as Smokey Priscilla, showgirl, Tallulah's Troupe
- Helen Corran as Bangles, showgirl, Tallulah's Troupe
- Kathy Spaudling as Loretta, showgirl, Tallulah's Troupe
- Vivienne McKone as Velma, showgirl, Tallulah's Troupe
- Lynn Aulbaugh as Louella, Dandy Dan's wife and polo partner
- Michael Jackson as Razamatazz - Fat Sam's personal pianist and performer at the Grand Slam Speakeasy (n.b. not Michael Jackson)
- Louise English as ballerina Mel
Casting:
This was Parkers fist film and he wanted to produce something that his own children could enjoy, this is when his eldest son suggested doing a film with an all children cast. To cast his "Fat Sam", he went to a classroom in a school in Brooklyn and asked for the naughtiest kid. The class, in no time picked out John Cassisi and he was then assigned the part as fat sam. At the time of filming, all of the cast were under 17 years old.
Music:
Parker got a singer/songwritter Paul Williams to write the tracks for his films. at the time of the film being filmed, Paul was on tour so he was sending tapes that he'd recorded for the film to Hollywood which arrived only a few weeks before the film being filmed for final. Once listening to the tracks, Parker realised that it was a silly idea to have an adult sing the songs which would be coming out of the children voices and thought about having the children to sing the songs themselves, however with the tapes arriving to Hollywood so close to the final filming they had no choice but to use the tapes that Paul Williams had recorded for them.
Filming:
The film was rehearsed and filmed in England, mostly in pinewood studios but also with shots in Reading and and Buckinghamshire as well. The splurge guns were first used with cream-filled wax balls but this proved to be painful so they then to scrap the idea of the guns actually being filmed and used a fast-cut to a victim so it looked like they had just been "splurged".
Iconic Scenes:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MIRPaKgPwEs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ulEG7bd1H60
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mT8AzdxT48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2uQQ9mMnOI
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