Gangster Wars

Gangster Wars is a 1981 crime drama directed by Richard Sarafian The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Michael Nouri), Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Joe Penny) and Michael Lansker (Brian Benben) (a fictional character possibly modeled after Meyer Lansky), growing up in New York's ghettos during the early 1900s to their rise though organized crime. This movie is based on an original telecast ... more

Gangster Wars is a 1981 crime drama directed by Richard Sarafian The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Michael Nouri), Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Joe Penny) and Michael Lansker (Brian Benben) (a fictional character possibly modeled after Meyer Lansky), growing up in New York's ghettos during the early 1900s to their rise though organized crime. This movie is based on an original telecast from 1981 called "Gangster Chronicles". It was a three-hour opener for the subsequent miniseries. In addition to the characters above Brian Benben's character is a fictional composite of several mobsters (here named "Michael Lasker"). While the miniseries covered nearly four decades, the opener takes us from 1907 to the Prohibition era of the 1920s. After its initial run, the entire Gangster Chronicles saga was boiled down to 121 minutes and released to videocassette as Gangster Wars. "Gangster Wars" was cut from the first eight hours of the... less