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Jan 17, 2013 · The blogger sierramargaret reveals how her family was interviewed for the LA Times articles that inspired the film, and how they feel about the Hollywood version. She says the movie exaggerates the violence and the role of her grandfather, who used his brains more than his gun to fight the mob.
Jan 13, 2013 · 00:01, 13 Jan 2013. Updated 11:47, 13 Jan 2013. |. Bookmark. Bombs, machine guns and a lead pipe – tough guys tried the lot on gangster Mickey Cohen but they could not kill him. The tricky crime...
Much like the events in the 2013 film Gangster Squad, the real-life squad waged war on crime and did things that would be considered illegal by today's standards. As the real-life Sgt. Jack O'Mara later told the Los Angeles Times in 2008: "We did a lot of things that we'd get indicted for today". [2]
Gangster Squad is a 2013 American action thriller film directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Will Beall, based on a non-fiction book by Paul Lieberman. The film stars Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Patrick, Michael Peña and Sean Penn. Set in 1949, a group of real-life LAPD ...
May 20, 2012 · Part 1, Crusaders in the Underworld: The LAPD takes on Organized Crime. If they joined the Gangster Squad, their targets would be the likes of Bugsy Siegel, the playboy refugee from New York’s Murder Inc., and Jack Dragna, the Sicilian banana importer who quietly lorded over the city’s rackets…They’d have no office, only two unmarked cars.
Jan 10, 2013 · The new film “Gangster Squad” takes a fictionalized look at the LAPD vice division of the 1940s. The details are given a fair helping of dramatic license, but the broad outline of a vice division set against mobster Mickey Cohen has a basis in reality.
Jan 11, 2013 · With Sean Penn, Holt McCallany, Wade Williams, James Landry Hébert. It's 1949 Los Angeles, the city is run by gangsters and a malicious mobster, Mickey Cohen. Determined to end the corruption, John O'Mara assembles a team of cops, ready to take down the ruthless leader and restore peace to the city.
