This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor. Wormy and diminutive, yet cunning and determined small-time hoodlum Squizzy Taylor rises to prominence and popularity in Melbourne, Australia in the 1920's. Squizzy romances brash moll Dolly and works for bookie Henry Stokes before branching out on his own while being hounded by the police and courted by the press the whole time.
Acting
David Atkins makes a weasel magnetic; Jacki Weaver steals every scene.
Costume
1920s Melbourne street fashion that screams forgotten history.
Director
Kevin James Dobson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Real Squizzy Taylor was only 5'2" and used photographers as shamelessly as any influencer.
This flopped hard in 1982 but became a cult curio of Aussie cinema's brief crime wave.
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