'gangster' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a criminal, especially a member of a gang or organized crime group. Example: The police arrested a notorious gangster who had been on the run for several years.
Bearing this in mind, it is not surprising that his main professional relationships seem to be with people from the other side of the camera: Most notably, Ken Loach, Antonia Bird (Safe, Priest, and the forthcoming East End gangster drama Face) and Danny Boyle (Trainspotting).
Worshipped by the Toon fans Gallacher swaggered around Tyneside dressed like a Hollywood gangster in broad-brimmed hat, double-breasted suits and spats.
One of her early breakthrough film roles was as Victoria, Bob Hoskins's girlfriend, in the violent and highly rated 1980 London gangster thriller The Long Good Friday.
Celebrated in song by the likes of Georges Brassens and Yves Duteil, who both lamented its stern and gloomy walls, as well as a backdrop in countless French gangster movies, La Santé has always had a mythic aura for Parisians.
In England in 2010, the team behind a particularly lame gangster film you won't have heard of, Dead Man Running, staged an ill-advised PR event that involved dropping £5,000 on shoppers from a balcony of a giant mall in Manchester.
To this day I still can't switch on any VOD service without drowning in cack-handed British gangster films called things like Top Dog or St George's Day.
Because Gabi is married to a gangster (Mads Mikkelsen), Charlie finds himself entangled with Romanian mobsters whose preferred method of punishment is to attach enemies to one another with superglue that rips off their skin if they try to unstick themselves.
Reservoir Dogs was essentially a heist movie (without a heist), Pulp Fiction a gangster flick, Jackie Brown a blaxploitation flick with an edge of noir, Kill Bill a martial arts double header and Death Proof a slasher movie.
Simon describes them as, respectively, the cool, quiet one no one seems able to reach; the wannabe gangster who can't really take the heat; the hustler with a scheme for every situation; and the smelly kid with social problems.
In 2002, he had sent the Mad Men pilot as a writing sample to The Sopranos' creator David Chase - who hired him to work on the gangster drama.
They relate to Kray's bestselling autobiography Born Fighter, in which the once-feared gangster wrote that he had become a born-again Christian.
