On their way back from the station, they are attacked by Bugsy, who this time carries a pistol. They rent a train station locker and stash their cash earnings in a leather briefcase, promising that they will only withdraw or deposit funds from the locker when they are all present, and that the key will be kept by Fat Moe. The invention is a success and the boys become very wealthy, receiving 10% of Capuano's earnings. Worried that his friend has drowned, Noodles looks for him and is perturbed when Max finally appears. Max falls overboard and doesn't surface for a seemingly long amount of time. The first time the boys use Noodles' invention, it works perfectly and the boys are overjoyed at the cargo that floats to the surface. Undaunted, the boys meet with a local Italian mobster, Al Capuano ( Clem Caserta), and show him an invention of Noodles' that will allow Capuano to keep all the imported cargo he illegally deals even after his ships crews are forced to throw it overboard by harbor customs agents. When Noodles pleads with Deborah to let him inside after the vicious beating, Deborah refuses. When Bugsy hears that there's another gang that isn't under his control, he and his thugs horribly beat Noodles and Max just outside Deborah's father's restaurant. The boys become something of a success in their neighborhood, thieving houses and stores and rolling more drunks and other weaker types for small earnings that are substantial for themselves. Deborah, however, mostly ignores his advances, with the exception of an intimate moment they share when the restaurant is closed during Passover. While using the men's room in the restaurant, Noodles often spies on her through a small hole in the wall while she practices her ballet steps and undresses afterward. Gelly ( Chuck Low), owns the local kosher restaurant. Noodles has long desired to become romantically involved with Fat Moe's ( Mike Monetti) sister, Deborah ( Jennifer Connelly) their father, Mr. They also get their watch back from him and make him pay for Noodles and Max to have sex with Peggy. Whitey acquiesces to their demands that, as the new gang in the area, he pay them as much in tribute as he does Bugsy and that he do some enforcement work for them. The boys catch Whitey in the act and photograph him Patsy quickly disappears with the film plate. Patsy immediately realizes that Whitey is going to see their pre-teen (albeit physically matured) friend, Peggy ( Julie Cohen), who prostitutes herself. One day Patsy spies Whitey walking along the rooftops of the neighborhood and follows him. Though Noodles and Max share leadership of the gang, it is Max who is the more charismatic and makes most of the decisions for them. Noodles and Max come to admire each others' resolve and decide to be friends. Whitey happens by and takes the watch for himself. Noodles finds Max later and demands the watch back. He keeps the drunk's pocket watch and leaves the boys to be harassed by a local policeman, Whitey (whom the boys call "Fartface") ( Richard Foronjy), who constantly bullies them. One day, while attempting to "roll" a drunkard ( Gerritt Debeer), they are foiled in their plot by Max ( Rusty Jacobs), who has just moved into the neighborhood with his mother ( Marcia Jean Kurtz). They ostensibly work for a young local Irish gangster named Bugsy ( James Russo) however, Noodles (now played by Scott Tiler) and his friends Patsy ( Brian Bloom), Cockeye ( Adrian Curran) and Dominic ( Noah Moazezi), have ambitions to strike out on their own. In 1920, the boys grow up in poverty in a Jewish neighborhood on the Lower East Side. Noodles believes someone is seeking revenge against him. Having lived for years under the assumed name of "Robert Williams", Noodles is suspicious of the letter, thinking that he's been called back to see to the reburial of his old friends, Patrick "Patsy" Goldberg ( James Hayden), Philip "Cockeye" Stein ( William Forsythe), and Max Bercovic ( James Woods), who he used to be in a gang with. He sets himself up in with a room in a bar owned by an old friend, "Fat" Moe Gelly ( Larry Rapp), and begins to investigate the summons he received. He has been called back under mysterious circumstances: he's received a notice from a local rabbi telling him that the cemetery in his old neighborhood is being closed and the remains of those buried there are being moved. In 1968, David "Noodles" Aaronson ( Robert De Niro), returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, following a prolonged absence. Scenes presented in square brackets appear only in the 2012 Extended Director's Cut. The story frequently jumps back and forth between these times, and is summarized chronologically here. WarnerBros.The film is divided into three distinct time periods: 1920, 1932-3, and 1968.
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