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Actor: Arliss Howard, Danny Aiello, Marc Lawrence, Richard C. Sarafian, Sherilyn FennDVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Ruby
Movie Review: A Totally Underrated Film
Summary: 5 Stars
First of all let me say I loved this film. Of course as a student of the JFK assassination, I immediately recognized the film takes generous amounts of artistic license. However I still find it interesting and compelling.
Almost everyone knows the story of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald on live television. This film explores Ruby's adult life in Dallas as owner of a perpetually struggling burlesque club. The post-murder of Oswald is not explored as in-depth.
I liked how the film went into Ruby's involvement with amoral Dallas policemen and his quasi-cooperation with the FBI and CIA. And Ruby's relationship with dancer "Candy Cane" was presented as tender, sweet, and was very well done.
A few problems I have with the film: Danny Aiello's portrayal of Jack Ruby was almost too kind. Aiello played him as a sympathetic character, who was (somewhat) forced into unscrupulous dealings with Dallas police, just to keep his club afloat.
It's true that Jack Ruby was involved in those kinds of shady and illegal activities, but in real life Jack Ruby was a shrill, excitable individual. He was a fight waiting to happen, and he savagely beat up countless customers. In fits of rage, he personally threw men down flights of stairs. It's well known that he sent countless customers to the hospital for lengthy stays.
In real life Jack Ruby spoke in an odd voice, somewhat nasal and lispy. In photographs with his dancers at the time, Jack Ruby looks like a 100% effeminate gay man. He NEVER made a move on any of his dancers, never married, and had a "girlfriend" that was all for show.
Danny Ailello portrayed Ruby as masculine, dignified, pleasant, just a struggling businessman who got mixed up in the wrong crowd......which we all know wasn't the case. He was a ruffian, with a fowl temper and he was highly unscrupulous.
The character of David Ferry was portrayed by Tobin Bell, also (in my humble opinion) as excessively positive. Tobin played Ferry as an eccentric and enigmatic CIA agent. In real life David Ferry was a mess. He made his own wigs (that looked like a dog with mange), and he painted on his eyebrows with a black magic marker.
However, perhaps the film would have been too annoying to sit through, had the two men been portrayed as they were in real life-lol Can a movie goer sit through 90 minutes of lisping, bizarre murderers? I don't know.
However I still recommend the film. Just realize the producers took a large chunk of artistic license, and you should enjoy it as much as I did. I give it 5 stars because I believe the characters' real personalities were artistically and successfully manipulated to make an entertaining film.
Summary of Ruby
The Mafia needed a patsy. The CIA needed a pawn. And the conspiracy needed a killer. They found it all in Jack Ruby, the Dallas strip club owner who murdered President Kennedy?s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, on live television. Stars Danny Aiello.Similar DVD Movies
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