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Mobsters is a 1991 American crime drama film directed by Michael Karbelnikoff. It details the creation of The Commission . Set in New York City , taking place from 1917 to 1931, it is a semi-fictitious account of the rise of Charles "Lucky" Luciano , Meyer Lansky , Frank Costello , and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel .
The American movie The Black Hand (1906) is thought to be the earliest surviving gangster film. [1] In 1912, D. W. Griffith directed The Musketeers of Pig Alley, a short drama film about crime on the streets of New York City (filmed, however, at Fort Lee, New Jersey) rumored to have included real gangsters as extras.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 December 2024. Member of a criminal gang This article is about members of a gang or criminal organization. For other uses, see Gangster (disambiguation). "Mobsters" redirects here. For the film, see Mobsters (film). For the TV series, see Mobsters (TV series). A gangster is a criminal who is a member ...
Here are 22 of the best gangster stories of all time—12 crime movies and 10 crime series that deliver action, suspense, comedy, romance, and heartbreak, all nested within violent narratives of ...
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In a nursing home, elderly Irish-American World War II veteran Frank Sheeran recounts his time as a hitman for the Italian-American Mafia.. In 1950s Philadelphia, Sheeran works as a union delivery truck driver, where he starts selling some of the meat shipments to a local Philadelphia Italian-American gangster known as "Skinny Razor", a member of the Philadelphia crime family headed by Angelo ...
Two main types of crime films were released during the period: the gangster picture and the prison film. A triumvirate of gangster pictures were released in the early 1930s—Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932)—which were built on the template created by the first gangster movie, 1927's Underworld. All featured ...
And that fascinates me,” Harvey Keitel notes in an early scene while playing the title role in “Lansky,” writer-director Eytan Rockaway’s ambitious but uneven biopic about the notorious ...