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But in the heart of the city, a young gangster from Brooklyn rises to the top. Al Capone. In less than a decade, the ruthless gangster will create an empire, pulling in millions, eliminating all rivals, and transforming the Chicago Mafia into the most successful criminal syndicate in the country, known as the Outfit.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Gangsters: America's Most Evil is a documentary television series that airs on Reelz [1] which profiles notorious criminals whose crimes involve murder, drug trafficking, racketeering, and human trafficking. Most, if not all of, the criminals profiled in this series were either brought to justice by local, state, and federal law enforcement or ...
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]
The Making of the Mob: New York is an American television miniseries, and the first season of The Making of the Mob.It follows notorious New York gangster Lucky Luciano and his rise in the New York City crime mob, alongside Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, Bugsy Siegel, and Vito Genovese.
Al Capone (1899–1947) is one of the most notorious American gangsters of the 20th century and has been the subject of numerous articles, books, and films. From 1925 to 1929, shortly after Capone relocated to Chicago, he was the most notorious mobster in the country. Capone cultivated an image of himself in the media that fascinated the public.