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Lansky is a american film of genre Drama directed by John McNaughton released in USA on 27 february 1999 with Richard Dreyfuss
Lansky (1999)
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Add to a movie listLansky is a 1999 American made-for-television crime drama film. Directed by John McNaughton, it stars Richard Dreyfuss as the famous gangster Meyer Lansky, Eric Roberts as Bugsy Siegel, and Ryan Merriman as the young Lansky.
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The movie circuits around flashbacks of Lansky's life, the first showing is as Lansky as an old man looking for a rock to put on his grandfather's grave in Jerusalem. Upon seeing soldiers of the Israeli Defense Force, Lansky expresses regret that his grandfather never lived to see them. As he walks through a tunnel, he catches sight of an old man. He recalls how at the age of 10 years, he witnessed an elderly Jew being bludgeoned to death with an axe during a pogrom.Actors
Richard Dreyfuss
(Meyer Lansky)
Eric Roberts
(Ben "Bugsy" Siegel)
Anthony LaPaglia
(Charlie "Lucky" Luciano)
Mosko Alkalai
(Jewelry Shopkeeper)
Ryan Merriman
(Meyer Lansky Ages 12-14)
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