"Greed is Good." This is the credo of the aptly named Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), the antihero of Oliver Stone's Wall Street. Gekko, a high-rolling corporate raider, is idolized by young-and-hungry broker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen). Inveigling himself into Gekko's inner circle, Fox quickly learns to ******, murder and bury his sense of ethics. Only when Gekko's wheeling and dealing causes a near-tragedy on a personal level does Fox "reform"-though his means of destroying Gekko are every bit as underhanded as his previous activities on the trading floor. Director Stone, who cowrote Wall Street with Stanley Weiser, has claimed that the film was prompted by the callous treatment afforded his stockbroker father after 50 years in the business; this may be why the film's most compelling scenes are those between Bud Fox and his airline mechanic father (played by Charlie Sheen's real-life dad Martin). Ironically, Wall Street was released just before the October, 1987 stock market crash. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Warner Baxter, sporting a black mustache and a musical-comedy Mexican accent, stars as the Cisco Kid, the "Robin Hood of the Old West" created by O. Henry. Edmund Lowe co-stars as Cisco's "friendly enemy" Sgt. Mickey Dunne, the role that was originally to have gone to Raoul Walsh. Both men are madly in love with dusky beauty Tonia Maria (Dorothy Burgess), and in fact Cisco is so "far gone" that he composes a song in the girl's honor (actually, "My Tonia", first heard during the opening credits, was written by Fox studio tunesmiths Lew Brown, B.G. DeSylva and Ray Henderson). Alas, Tonia ends up betraying Cisco to Sgt. Burke. But the crafty, cold-blooded Cisco arranges for Tonia to be killed in the trap set for him (this plot resolution is faithful to O. Henry's original conception of the Cisco Kid, who wasn't really meant to be a "good guy"). Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Genre: Epic, Western, Musical, Comedy Drama, Romance, Military & War, Drama, Action/Adventure
- Category Romantic Drama, Traditional Western, Biopic [feature], Musical Romance, Americana, Urban Drama, Road Movie, War Epic
- Theme: Big Break, Great Battles, Love Triangles, Military Life, Nannies and Caregivers, Wanderlust, Journey of Self-Discovery, Switching Sides
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- Run Time: 10 hr 44 min
- Language: French, English, Spanish
- Subtitle Language: Spanish, English
- Picture Format: widescreen
- Release Date: January 22, 2008
- Lead Actor: Art Carney, George C. Scott, Warner Baxter, Deborah Kerr, Michael Douglas
- Supporting Actor: Douglas Wilmer, Frank Adonis, Harry Morgan, James Edwards, Jeff Rector, Joe E. Brown, John Galateo, Bill Hickman, Carol Schneider, David Bauer, Duke Martin, Andre Philippe, Barbara Rhoades, Josephine Smith, Eddie Luke, William Yip, Weaver Levy, Jean Wong, Jadin Wong, Leonard Strong, Charles Irwin, Monique Van Vooren, Annie McEnroe, Millie Perkins, Gernze de Lappe, Dusty Worrall, Richard Dysart, Robert Banas, James Karen, Marion Jim, Franklin Cover, Soledad Jiminez, Yuriko, Tim Considine, Saul Rubinek, John C. McGinley, Geoffrey Toone, Roy Stewart, Siegfried Rauch, Hal Holbrook, Alan Mowbray, James Spader, Patrick Adiarte, Pat Hartigan, Tom Santschi, Carlos Rivas, Sylvia Miles, John Doucette, Sean Young, Frank Campeau, Arthur Hunnicutt, Lawrence Dobkin, Rex Thompson, Larry Hagman, Terry Saunders, Henry Armetta, Terence Stamp, Fred Warren, Edward Binns, Martin Sheen, Martin Benson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Karl Michael Vogler, John Farrell MacDonald, Michael Bates, Rita Moreno, Daryl Hannah, Dorothy Burgess, Chief Dan George, Yul Brynner, Ellen Burstyn, Edmund Lowe, Charlie Sheen, Karl Malden, Alan MacNaughton, Donnie Kehr, Stephen Young, Sandy Kevin, Sam Ingraffia, Richard Münch, Pirie MacDonald, Philip Bruns, Peter Barkworth, Paul Stevens, Paul Guilfoyle, Pat Skipper, Adelle Lutz, Lauren Tom, Avon Long, Cliff Norton, Dani Klein, David Healy, Thomas and Dennis Bonifla, Sean Stone, Mike Nussbaum, John Webb Dillon, Lionel Murton, Marni Nixon, Leslie Lyles, Faith Geer, Gerald Flood, Grant Shaud, Herbert Berghof, Joe Madden, Morgan Paull, William Hubbard Knight, Sally K. Marr, Ronald Von Klaussen, Rene Enriquez, Rashel Novikoff, Michael Strong, Thomas Anderson, Michael C. Mahon, Melanie Mayron, Edward Peil Sr., Oliver Stone, Michael Butler, Lowell Thomas, Louis Guss, Andrea Thompson, Ken Lipper, John Capodice, Jack Gwyllim, Ivan Linow, Helen Lynch, Dolly Jonah, Cliff De Young, Chuck Preiffer, Cecilia Peck, Carey Loftin, Byron Utley, Alexandra Neil, Jeff Beck, Yanni Sfinias, Ronald Yamamoto, Patrick Weathers, Michael O'Donoghue, Michael McCleery, Martin Sherman, Liliane Montevecchi, Josh Mostel, John Barrie, Jean de Baer, James Marcus, James Bulleit, Frank Nelson, Frank Latimore, Alphonse Ethier, Ann Talman, Clint Ritchie, Clint Young
- Director: Oliver Stone, Irving Cummings, Franklin J. Schaffner, Raoul Walsh, Walter Lang, Paul Mazursky
