Caper comedy with an early starring role for Robert De Niro as a priest-impersonating Italian cyclist who finds himself embroiled with a gang of ludicrously incompetent crooks., Caper comedy with early starring role for Robert De Niro as a member of a gang of ludicrously bumbling crooks., Academy Award winner Robert De Niro stars as the Italian bicycle racer who falls in love with a mafiosi’s younger sister in the middle of an underworld war being waged by The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight., Jimmy Breslin’s story of bumbling gangsters feuding in Brooklyn. Jerry Orbach, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jo Van Fleet, Lionel Stander, Robert De Niro., Caper comedy with early starring role for Robert De Niro as a member of a gang of ludicrously bumbling crooks. Based on Jimmy Breslin’s novel., In this comedy, based on Jimmy Breslin’s novel, a bungling gang of hoods make increasingly ludicrous attempts on the life of a Mafia boss. Each attempt ends in failure.