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In 1934, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson is released from Sing Sing and returns to Harlem, where mobster Dutch Schultz asserts his control of the lucrative numbers game.Schultz begrudgingly reports to Mafia boss Charles "Lucky" Luciano, who pays bribes to special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey to protect his business.
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 ...
Frank Lucas (September 9, 1930 – May 30, 2019) was an American drug lord who operated in Harlem, New York City, during the late 1960s and early 1970s.He was known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 50% "Power" is the story of a media consultant, Pete St. John (Richard Gere) who pulls out all the stops to get his client, businessman Jerome Cade (JT Walsh), elected to ...
31. The Book of Eli (2010). Director: The Hughes Brothers Cast: Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals Rating: R Run Time: 118 minutes Reviews: Rotten Tomatoes 47% | IMDb 6.8/10 ...
18. Fallen (1998). Director: Gregory Hoblit Cast: John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James Gandolfini Run Time: 124 minutes Reviews: Rotten Tomatoes 40% | IMDb 7.0/10 Washington ...
Ellsworth Raymond "Bumpy" Johnson (October 31, 1905 – July 7, 1968) was an American crime boss in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Early life.
The actor plays Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, the real-life complicated criminal who once ruled Harlem's heroin trade. How Forest Whitaker plays a poet, philanthropist, murderer and drug kingpin all ...