Mobsters

Mobsters is a 1991 crimedrama film detailing the creation of The Commission. Set in New York City, taking place from 1917 to 1931, it is a semifictitious account of the rise of Charles Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, and Benjamin Bugsy Siegel. The film stars Christian Slater as Luciano, Patrick Dempsey as Lansky, Costas Mandylor as Costello and Richard Grieco as Siegel, with Michael Gambon, Anthony Quinn, Lara Flynn Boyle, and F. Murray Abraham in supporting roles.

The movie was loosely based on the book, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano written in 1974 by Martin A. Gosch and Richard Hammer. The film is generally in line with historical truth. The Castellammarese War from 1928 to 1931, is never named. Mara Motes is a character of fiction based in part on Lucianos girlfriend, Gay Orlova. However, two major events are depicted inaccurately the death of Vincent Mad Dog Coll and the death of FaranzanoMaranzano. In early 1932, Dutch Schultz killed Coll in a Manhattan telephone booth.The film was almostuniversally panned by critics earning arating on Rotten Tomatoes based onreviews. Variety Magazine wrote that Mobsters resembles a cartbeforethehorse case of putting marketing ahead of filmmaking, as the seemingly cantmiss premise of teenheartthrob gangsters gets lost in selfimportant direction, a shoddy script and muddled storytelling. According to Roger Ebert, the movies violence and bloodshed are so far over the top that they undermine the rest of the film, and approach parody. He gave the movie two and a half out of four stars. ........

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