In Robert De Niro’s formative years as an actor, he played in a movie titled The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight (1971), a comedy about a group of Italian gangsters who always messed up everything they were involved in – including when they aimed to kill someone, they always managed to miss, as you can imagine how it is in a movie with that kind of title.
The movie itself is hilarious. It seems all the gangsters ever say, be it greeting each other, arguing or when they’re angry, is: “Hey… Hey… Hey….” And whatever they attempt to do, something always goes wrong. I watched this movie a few years ago but I was particularly marveled by the fact that the great Robert De Niro – who went on to claim world renown with great performances in innumerable good movies – played a role in this little known movie.
Relatively speaking, that is. Little known here at any rate. The movie was based on a novel of the same title – The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight by Jim Breslin, published in 1969. It must have been a very popular book then, because otherwise it wouldn’t have been made into a movie two years later.
All this points to show that “can’t shoot straight” must be a popular saying in America.
It is, and here are a few media examples:
1. It was an absolutely dreadful shooting performance by the Mountaineers in a 58-42 defeat to Monmouth on Saturday night at Knott Arena.
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