Gangster Wars
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Director Richard C. Sarafian Music director John Cacavas Duration Language English | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Biography, Crime, History Screenplay Richard DeKoker Writer Richard DeKoker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date April 9, 1981 Cast Michael Nouri , Brian Benben , Joe Penny , Madeleine Stowe (Ruth Lasker), Markie Post (Chris Brennan)Similar movies Related Richard C Sarafian movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gangster Wars is a 1981 crime drama directed by Richard C. Sarafian.
Contents
The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Michael Nouri), Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Joe Penny) and Michael Lasker (Brian Benben) (a fictional character who was most likely modeled after Meyer Lansky), growing up in New York's ghettos during the early 1900s to their rise though organized crime.
Synopsis
The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Michael Nouri), Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Joe Penny) and Michael Lasker (Brian Benben) (a fictional character who was most likely modeled after Meyer Lansky), growing up in New Yorks ghettos during the early 1900s to their rise though organized crime.
Adaptation
This movie is based on an original telecast from 1981 called The Gangster Chronicles. It was a three-hour opener for the subsequent miniseries. In addition to the characters above Brian Benbens character is a fictional composite of several mobsters (here named "Michael Lasker"). While the miniseries covered nearly four decades, the opener takes us from 1907 to the Prohibition era of the 1920s. After its initial run, the entire Gangster Chronicles saga was boiled down to 121 minutes and released to videocassette as Gangster Wars.
References
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