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The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Michael Nouri), Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel and Michael Lasker (Brian Benben) (a fictional character who was most likely modeled after Meyer Lansky), growing up in New York's ghettos during the early 1900s to their rise through organized crime.
Nov 17, 2018 · The gangster chronicles. by. Lasker, Michael. Publication date. 1981. Topics. Organized crime -- Fiction, Organized crime. Publisher. New York : Jove.
An exception was Meyer Lansky, who was still alive at the time of filming; to avoid legal hassles the producers had Brian Benben as a fictional Lansky stand-in named “Michael Lasker.” Edited and released on video as Gangster Wars, the studio somehow reduced 13 hours of drama into a 120-minute movie.
The real Meyer Lansky was still alive – and capable of filing lawsuits – when the series was made so his name was changed to Michael Lasker (Brian Benben). As Michael Lasker’s boyhood friend, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel (Joe Penny) joined forces with Charlie and Michael as they drifted from being small-time nickel-and-dime hoods to ...
Oct 9, 1981 · Gangster Wars: Directed by Richard C. Sarafian. With Michael Nouri, Brian Benben, Joe Penny, Richard S. Castellano. Three poor ghetto kids in turn-of-the-century New York City grow up to become feared gangsters.
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Feb 12, 2019 · Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel and Michael Lasker (a fictional composite of several gangland leaders) meet in 1907 while stealing money from the body of a dead gangster, then emerge as forces to be reckoned with in organized crime during the Prohibition era.
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The Gangster Chronicles. 1981 -1981. NBC. Drama. Watchlist. A dramatization of the lives of Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel and composite character Michael Lasker, forces to be reckoned with in...
