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American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian.The film is loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark ...
The Lunada Bay Boys or simply the Bay Boys, are a surfer gang in Palos Verdes Estates, California, known for their aggressive localism. In 2016, Newsweek called the Lunada Bay Boys "America's most notorious surf gang". [1] The group's territorialism of the Lunada Bay public beach has raised concerns in the legal and surfing worlds.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 December 2024. The Five Points, Manhattan is a location that was associated with gang activities from the early 19th century. In the late 1920s, Al Capone was the leader of the Chicago Outfit The Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle club was founded in 1948 and is considered a criminal gang by American law ...
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Pages in category "American gangsters" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Polly Adler;
Without any back up, Croswell and a handful of local police officers busted the meeting and arrested 58 of the most notorious Mafia figures. Although all the arrests were eventually overturned, Sgt. Croswell single-handedly forced the FBI to publicly acknowledge the existence of an organized crime syndicate in America, leading J. Edgar Hoover ...
In 2015, the film was ranked at number nine on Time Out ' s list of the 50 best gangster films of all time, [81] while in 2021, The Guardian cited it as the fourth greatest mobster film ever made. [82] In 2023, The A.V. Club ranked it seventh in its list of the greatest gangster movies of all time. [83]
Gangs of New York (2002), also directed by Scorsese, was the first modern gangster film to focus on the 19th-century Irish gangs. Although the gay nineties had been a popular setting for prewar crime films, from the 1950s until the early 21st century most gangster movies were set in either the prohibition era , postwar America, or the present day.