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1	* AwardSnub: As a small production by a then-unheralded filmmaker, it got zero UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations despite its critical acclaim.
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3	** When Johnny Boy walks in with a chick on each arm. Slowmotion walking and "Jumpin' Jack Flash" just work, man. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" would work in a black screen anyway, but still.
4	** "Be My Baby" is played over the opening credits, and it works magnificently, with the opening drum beats resembling gunshots.
5	** The film's soundtrack in general is filled with noteworthy classics used to great effect in each scene they're featured in.
6	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Although he's only a supporting player, Creator/RobertDeNiro's performance as Johnny Boy stole the show in its original run and made him an overnight star. In light of De Niro's later roles, it's actually quite different, far more frenetic and unbalanced than the types he played later on.
7	* JerkassWoobie: Johnny Boy. Sure, he is a PsychopathicManChild who is constantly raising hell and getting Charlie in trouble, but it's hard not to feel sorry for him as he weeps like a child when confronted by his friend towards the climax. Charlie put it best when referring to him as "just a kid who needs to be helped, that's all...".
8	* OneSceneWonder: Creator/DavidCarradine as the drunk who gets shot at Tony's bar.
9	* RetroactiveRecognition: An impossibly young David Proval, decades before he played [[Series/TheSopranos Richie Aprile]], as Tony.
10	* SpiritualSuccessor: To Scorsese's feature debut, ''Film/WhosThatKnockingAtMyDoor'', which also starred Harvey Keitel as a young Italian New Yorker with some mob ties and lots of Catholic guilt. In fact, Scorsese initially conceived it as a direct sequel.
11	* TheWoobie: Teresa. Charlie counts as well.
12	* ValuesDissonance: While the film itself doesn’t condone it, Teresa being called “sick in the head” by Giovanni and being more or less shunned by her close neighbors due to her epilepsy can be quite shocking for viewers today. (To get a further idea of how much things have changed, before 1971 the U.S. considered epilepsy grounds for annulment in a marriage.)

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