Mobsters (1991)

Editor's Note Based on the true story of the rise of organized crime in America during Prohibition. Four now-famous thugs from humble origins and diverse ethnic backgrounds become rich and powerful gangsters through bootlegging.

	Christian Slater
	Costas Mandylor
	Patrick Dempsey
	Richard Grieco
	Michael Karbelnikoff - Director
	Lajos Koltai - Director of Photography
	Michael Small - Musical Score
	Stephen J. Roth - Producer
	C.O. Erickson - Producer
	Nicholas Kazan - Writer
	Michael Mahern - Writer

Fictionalized account of the early days of mobsters Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, and Frank Costello as they try to build their business while contending with rival dons. USA Today
"...The violence often approaches the operatic grandness of THE GODFATHER films..." 07/26/1991 p.1D

Chicago Sun-Times 6 of 10
The body count in the movie is fairly high, but that's nothing compared to what's done to the bodies before they're counted. This is the bloodiest gangster movie I can remember. Machineguns are emptied into dead bodies, a nose is bitten off, lips are cut off, a face is slowly and deliberately scarred, a man is dangled outside a hotel window before the rope is cut so he can fall to his death - and there are plenty of closeups of faces and bodies after such things have happened to them. - Roger Ebert