The George Raft Story
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Costume design Roger J. Weinberg Country United States | 5.8/10 IMDb Genre Biography, Drama Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date November 22, 1961 (1961-11-22) Cast (George Raft), (Lisa Lang), (Sheila Patton), (June), (Texas Guinan), (Moxie Cusack) Similar movies Entourage , The Wolf of Wall Street , Black Mass , The Theory of Everything , Max , Dallas Buyers Club Tagline HOLLYWOOD'S CONFIDENTIAL STORY!! A MOVIE STAR TELLS ALL! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The George Raft Story is a 1961 American biographical film of Hollywood film star George Raft. Ray Danton portrays Raft and the film was directed by Joseph M. Newman. The picture was retitled Spin of a Coin for release in the United Kingdom, a reference to Raft's character's nickel-flipping trick in Scarface (1932), the film that launched Raft's career as an actor known for portraying gangsters.
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Overview
The film is a largely fictionalized version of Raft's turbulent life and career. Neville Brand appears briefly as Al Capone, recreating his role from the 1959 television series The Untouchables. Although other characters were fictional, Moxie was based on Raft's long-time friend and associate Mack Gray. Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel is a major character. No mention is made in the film of Raft's long-estranged wife Grayce (Mulrooney) or early mob benefactor Owney Madden.
George Raft and Mack Gray had played themselves almost two decades earlier in a markedly different but equally fictionalized biographical movie about Raft's early days as a dancer reluctantly involved with gangsters entitled Broadway (1942).
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