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Mikey And Nicky (1976) — (Movie Clip) You Would Have To Hire An Army

Calmer and higher ranking Philadelphia gangster Mikey (Peter Falk) has convinced his childhood pal Nicky (John Cassavetes), who thinks he’s about to get whacked, to leave the hotel where’s he’s holed up, but we’ve no idea who Ned Beatty is, or who he’s talking to, in writer-director Elaine May’s Mikey And Nicky, 1976.

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The second scene in the picture and the first with the principals (Peter Falk, John Cassavetes) together, writer-director Elaine May details just how freaked out small-time Philadelphia gangster Nicky is, believing he’s about to be killed, and why he’s called his life-long friend and colleague Mikey, in Mikey And Nicky, 1976.

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