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The American gangster

The American gangster

DVD 2006

With vintage film and photographs, this film chronicles the birth of organized crime and the most infamous deeds of gangsters such as Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone, John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Lucky Luciano, from Prohibition to prostitution, gangland massacres to gambling empires. Most started as young hoods in the slums of New York. They wound up absolute rulers of a kingdom made of liquor, loan sharking, gambling and extortion. Told throug...