Mobsters
Short description
Mobsters follows four young men in early twentieth-century New York who come from different immigrant backgrounds but forge a partnership that carries them from small-time street crime into the upper reaches of organized crime. Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel and Frank Costello build their alliance during the Prohibition era, when bootlegging and gambling offered enormous profits, and their rise brings them into conflict with established bosses who resent the newcomers' ambition.
The film was directed by Michael Karbelnikoff from a screenplay by Michael Mahern and Nicholas Kazan, and produced by Stephen J. Roth for Universal Pictures. Christian Slater plays Luciano, with Patrick Dempsey as Lansky, Richard Grieco as Siegel and Costas Mandylor as Costello. F. Murray Abraham appears as Arnold Rothstein and Lara Flynn Boyle as Mara Motes, among a credited cast of 67. It was Karbelnikoff's first feature as director, and it runs 104 minutes.
Released in July 1991, the film carried a budget of 23 million dollars and returned about 20 million worldwide, falling short of its production cost. On TMDB it holds a rating of 6.3 out of 10 from roughly 200 votes, while a critics' rating stands at 4.2 out of 10 from 34 reviews, so reviewers judged it considerably more harshly than general audiences did.
What's left behind the scenes
- In real life, Anthony Quinn was close friends with gangster Frank Costello.
- When Don Faranzano (played by Sir Michael Gambon), whose real surname was Maranzano, introduces his associates at a banquet where he calls himself the "boss of all bosses," he names the following: Lucky Luciano (1897-1962), Joe Bonanno (1905-2002), Crazy Joe (Joe Profaci, 1897-1962), Vincent Mangano (1888-1951) (who disappeared in 1951 and was declared dead in 1961), and Tommy Gagliano (1883-1951). After Lucky actually orchestrated the murder of Faranzano/Maranzano, the five associates became the heads of the Five Families, controlling organized crime in New York. Over time, the Luciano family changed its name to Genovese, Mangano to Gambino, Gagliano to Lucchese, and Profaci to Colombo. The Bonanno family retained its name.
- To avoid complicating the narrative, three individuals were removed from the inner circle of Lucky Luciano – Tommy Lucchese, nicknamed Three Fingers (1899-1967), Vito Genovese (1897-1969), and Albert Anastasia (1902-1957). All of them helped send Joe Masseria (1886-1931) and Salvatore Maranzano (depicted as Faranzano in the film) (also 1886-1931) to their deaths. In reality, Anastasia and Genovese helped Bugsy Siegel (1906-1947) kill Masseria in a cafe, and Lucchese helped Siegel and his associates of Jewish origin (who pretended to be federal government agents) gain access to Maranzano’s office, as Maranzano fully trusted him.
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