Lansky (1999)
Director:
John McNaughton
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss
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Bugsy Siegal and Lucky Luciano made headlines but one man controlled the game. The mind that organized crime.|Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano made headlines but one man controlled the game. The mind that organized crime.
| Tells of a young emigrant's rise from poverty to riches through hard-edged business sense and a ruthless ability to murder anyone who gets in his way. Special features: filmographies and scene access. Subtitles in english, french and spanish. |
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Editor's Note
LANSKY tells the true story of a young immigrant's ascent from poverty to almost unimaginable riches through hard-edged business sense and a ruthless ability to murder anyone who ever got in his way. Richard Dreyfuss stars as Meyer Lansky, a genius white-collar criminal on the run from the FBI. As he hops from country to country in search of asylum, he recounts his years as a dirt-poor youth in New York City's Lower East Side (a vibrant and dangerous multiracial ghetto in the early 1900s); as a rising gang member with such fearsome allies as Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel; and as a wizard of crooked accounting who became one of the most influential figures in the history of American organized crime.Backed by a strong supporting cast (most notably Beverly D'Angelo and Eric Roberts) and sparked by a dynamite David Mamet script, Dreyfuss delivers a powerful and deeply moving performance as the aged mafioso. Produced for HBO, LANSKY did not receive the widespread acclaim it deserved. With LANSKY, director John McNaughton (HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, WILD THINGS) delivers another of his penetrating cinematic investigations of the teeming shadow world undergirding late-20th-century American life.
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Cast & Crew
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Anthony LaPaglia |
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Beverly D'Angelo |
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Eric Roberts |
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Illeana Douglas |
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Richard Dreyfuss |
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Ryan Merriman |
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Eli Landau - Based on Novel By |
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Uri Dan - Based on Novel By |
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Dennis Eisenberg - Based on Novel By |
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John McNaughton - Director |
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John A. Alonzo - Director of Photography |
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Elena Maganini - Editor |
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Nicholas Paleologos - Executive Producer |
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Frederick Zollo - Executive Producer |
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George S. Clinton - Musical Score |
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Fred Caruso - Producer |
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Edward T. McAvoy - Production Designer |
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David Mamet - Screenplay |
Awards
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Emmy (1999) |
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John A. Alonso, Nominee, Outstanding Cinematography For A Miniseries Or A Movie |
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