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Gangster Wars
Film / 1981

Gangster Wars

Directed by Richard C. Sarafian
CrimeDramaTV movie

★ 8.3/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

Cast

Michael NouriCharles "Lucky" Luciano Brian BenbenMichael Lasker Joe PennyBenjamin "Bugsy" Siegel Richard S. CastellanoGiuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria Louis GiambalvoAl Capone George DiCenzoArnold Rothstein Joseph MascoloSalvatore Maranzano Jonathan BanksDutch Schultz Robert F. LyonsLegs Diamond Markie PostChris Brennan Chad ReddingJoy Olser Madeleine StoweRuth Lasker
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Robert John BurkeOfficer Reardon Robert DaviVito Genovese Jon PolitoThomas "Three Fingers Brown" Lucchese James AndronicaFrank Costello Allan ArbusGoodman Lelia GoldoniMrs. Lasker Kathleen LloydStella Siegel

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