Mad Dog Time (1996) on Netflix
With mob boss Vic in a psychiatric facility, his enforcer Mickey Holliday romances sisters Rita and Grace Everly while Ben London runs the nightclub. Rival Jake Parker brings in hired guns.
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Plot summary
Vic, a mob boss, is shut away in a psychiatric facility and due to be released. His top enforcer, Mickey Holliday, has been keeping company with Rita Everly and with Grace Everly, her sister, and Grace was Vic's girl before. While the boss is away, Ben London has had charge of Vic's nightclub. Their world is a mysterious underworld of swanky nightclubs, where criminals go armed, Rat Pack music plays, and shootouts are held from behind desks, from a seated position. Jake Parker brings in hired guns to take the organization for himself, and he is not the only rival who sees the boss's absence as an opening.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mad Dog Time (1996)
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- Larry Bishop's real-life father, Joey Bishop, agreed to cameo as Mr. Gottlieb, his own real surname, for one word, "Hello", but ad-libbed "go to Hell" instead, and the line stayed in the film.
- Mad Dog Time was Christopher Jones's first film appearance in more than a quarter-century, and it also turned out to be his last.
- Many of the ensemble cast signed on because they were friends or colleagues of Richard Dreyfuss and Larry Bishop: Rob Reiner had worked with both in the improv troupe Sessions, and Richard Pryor had acted with Bishop in Wild in the Streets.
- Larry Bishop described Mad Dog Time as a spoof of the Rat Pack's 1950s films, with his own meetings with Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra laying the groundwork.
