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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 ...
About the film's reception and box office results, Jim Belushi said: "Right around that time, when that movie came out, there was a gang related shooting at a movie theater in Los Angeles. That just ruined the opening of that movie. Everyone was afraid to go to the movie theatre, especially with the title Gang Related. Nobody went.
Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times called it "a strong contender for laziest mob movie ever made". [9] Sam Weisberg of The Village Voice wrote, "By the Gun is a gangster film wholly devoid of suspense, atmosphere, or grit." [10] Tom Meek of WBUR-FM described it as a well-produced film that has too many contrivances in service of advancing ...
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died Thursday after Alec Baldwin fired a loaded weapon that was handed to him by an assistant director who mistakenly believed it was safe to use on the New Mexico ...
Chael Sonnen (born 1977), a mixed martial artist nicknamed "The American Gangster" The American Gangster, a 1992 documentary on early 20th-century American gangsters; American Gangster, a 2007 film by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington; American Gangster, a 2007 Jay-Z album inspired by the 2007 film; American Gangster, a ...
John Woo's breakthrough film A Better Tomorrow (1986) largely set the template for the heroic bloodshed genre. [5] In turn, A Better Tomorrow was a reimagining of plot elements from two earlier Hong Kong crime films: Lung Kong's The Story of a Discharged Prisoner (1967) and the Shaw Brothers Studio film The Brothers (1979), the latter a remake of the hit Indian crime drama film Deewaar (1975 ...
Willie "Two-Knife" Altieri, also called Willie "Two Gun" Altieri, was an American gangster who served as the chief enforcer for Frankie Yale's Italian-American "Black-Hand" gang, one of the most powerful criminal organizations in 1920s New York City. He got his nickname after his preferred method of dispatching a victim.
The Left Handed Gun, 1958 American western film and the film directorial debut of Arthur Penn; Unforgiven, 1992 American Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood; Directed by John Ford 1971 documentary directed by Peter Bogdanovich; The Gangster Film. The Public Enemy, 1931 American Pre-Code crime film directed by William A. Wellman