Baby Face Nelson (film)
Baby Face Nelson is a 1957 crime film based on the real-life 1930s gangster, directed by Don Siegel, co-written by Daniel Mainwaring--who also wrote Siegel's 1956 sci-fi thriller Invasion of the Body Snatchers--and starring Mickey Rooney as Baby Face Nelson, and featuring Leo Gordon as John Dillinger.
Famous quotes containing the words baby, face and/or nelson:
“I will cut the head off my baby and swallow it if it will make Bush lose.”
—Zainab Ismael, Iraqi housewife. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 31 (November 16, 1992)
“Before my face it lays down my despairs,
And hastes me on unto a sudden death,”
—Michael Drayton (1563–1631)
“The victors and the vanquished then the storm it tossed and tore,
As hard they strove, those worn-out men, upon that surly shore;
Dead Nelson and his half-dead crew, his foes from near and far,
Were rolled together on the deep that night at Trafalgar!”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)