But would it be an actual 1940s film, or something else?Īngels With Filthy Souls shows a man being gunned down in a stream of bullets. Someone in that family liked the picture enough to buy it and make it part of their home video collection.
We would never get to find out who Acey is, if he was actually in the bath, or whether he really offered Snakes ten percent.īut what exactly was this movie? As a title the McCallisters had on VHS tape, it was clearly something that existed as a real film within the Home Alone universe. The short noir was created just for Home Alone, no longer in length than the bit we watched along with Kevin. Was this really the type of hardboiled greatness we got to look forward to watching as adults? Did grownups sit around all night watching shady gangsters in dark smoky offices shoot people?īy now, every Home Alone fan on the planet assumed this was a real film, and has attempted to look up Angels With Filthy Souls only to find it doesn’t exist.
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(The kid may be acting out, but he’s sensible enough to wear a bib to protect his nice sweater.) When Johnny pulls that tommy gun from behind his desk and gives Snakes “to the count of ten to get his ugly, yellow, no-good keister off his property,” we already know Snakes is about to get his “guts pumped full of lead.” Like Kevin, we hid our eyes but kept watching. He knows he shouldn’t be watching a black and white film with snarky language, murder, and a guy named Snakes. As kids with no reference point for this type of material, millions watched the scene with the same combination of thrill and regret displayed by Kevin. When Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is forgotten and his family hoofs it to Paris, one of his first actions is to construct the biggest, most kid-thrilling bowl of ice cream imaginable, and pair it with a private screening of Angels With Filthy Souls. Home Alone (1990) showed millions of kids born in the ‘80s their first noir film.
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