Movie
1999
Lansky is a 1999 American crime drama television film directed by John McNaughton and written by David Mamet, based in part on the 1979 biography Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob by Uri Dan, Dennis Eisenberg, and Eli Landau. It stars Richard Dreyfuss as the famous gangster Meyer Lansky, Eric Roberts as Bugsy Siegel, and Ryan Merriman as the young Lansky. Illeana Douglas, Beverly D'Angelo, and Anthony LaPaglia also…
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In recent past the author of this review has seen many murderers, bandits and war criminals being celebrated as folk heroes. That celebration of crime as some kind of heroic activity isn't something only this part of the world should be ashamed of. American history also saw plenty of questionable characters being turned into larger-than-life mythical figures. Hollywood played large part in it and almost entire histo…More
