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Bugsy
(Release: DVD 1999-08-04, Bio 1992-03-20)
FBI kallade honom "den farligaste mannen i USA". Detsamma gjorde kvinnorna. En charmör utan nåd och en mördare med elegans som besegrade Hollywood bara för att bli besegrad av en kvinna. Det som inte fungerat för åtskilliga revolvermän, lyckades för Virginia Hill; hon fångade den livsfarliga gangsterkungen. Det var början till en kärlekshistoria som var mer glödande än på någon film, mer brutal än något av Bugsys brott. Tillsammans skapade de den syndigaste staden av alla: Las Vegas...
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aldrig gillat beatty
men här kommer hans slemmiga attityd till sin rätt, en bra, lättsam och hyfsat intressant film, med bakgrund från verkligheten
Kuriosa
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Oscar: scenografi, kostym;
ROLL
Harvey Keitel som spelar Mickey Cohen spelade Bugsy Siegel i TV-filmen "The Virginia Hill Story".
FAKTA
19096-1947. Born Benjamin Siegel, on February 28, 1906, in Brooklyn, New York. The son of Jewish immigrants, Siegel was raised in the crime-ridden section of Williamsburg, where Irish and Italian gangs were prevalent. As a teenager, he extorted money from pushcart peddlers on New York City’s Lower East Side. In 1918, Siegel befriended fellow hooligan Meyer Lansky, with whom he established the Bugs-Meyer Gang—a band of ruthless Jewish mobsters that ran a group of contract killers under the name Murder, Inc During the 1920s, Mafia kingpin Charles “Lucky” Luciano and a number of other Italian gangsters organized themselves into a national syndicate. Nicknamed Bugsy for his volatile nature, Siegel became a prominent player in this newly established group of criminals. In the late 1930s, Siegel began dating actress Virginia Hill. They were a striking couple known as much for their violent natures as for their glamorous looks. In 1945, the two moved to Las Vegas, where Siegel began working toward his dream of building a gambling mecca in the Nevada desert. With funding from the eastern crime syndicate, construction of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino began under Siegel’s supervision. Originally budgeted at $1.5 million, the building project soon proved to be a problem as construction costs soared to more than $6 million. When it was discovered that many of the overruns were attributable to Siegel’s theft and mismanagement, Lansky (now a prominent member of the eastern syndicate) became enraged by his betrayal. On the evening of June 20, 1947, Siegel was brutally killed, when a fusillade of bullets crashed through his living room window in Beverly Hills
