Lansky
(DVD Video)

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Directed by John McNaughton.

Richard Dreyfuss, Eric Roberts, Illeana Douglas, Ryan Merriman, Beverly D'Angelo, Anthony LaPaglia.

Gangster rises from immigrant poverty to a world of power and wealth.

The mob has many faces, but only one man is behind them all. Emigrating to America as a child, the young Meyer Lansky learns to fight with his wits and always comes out on top - and at a proftit. Starting with a small gang, Lansky soon becomes a big-time gangster when, at the height of prohibition, he joins Bugsy Siegal and Lucky Luciano in creating a crime "syndicate", organizing and structuring crime to make it as efficient as any other business in America. But this is a business more openly crooked than most - and more violent. in their struggle to take and maintain power, not only would those mobsters outside the syndicate pay a deadly price - but sometimes even those within. --Cover.

DVD.

In English and Spanish ; closed captioned.