Lansky

Lansky
by John McNaughton

Lansky
List Price: $9.98
Our Price: $5.99
You Save: $3.99 (40%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $3.48 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases


(Click here)
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada

DVD Cover Information

Actor: Anthony LaPaglia, Beverly D'Angelo, Eric Roberts, Max Perlich, Richard Dreyfuss
Director: John McNaughton
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-07-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Hbo Home Video

Movie Reviews of Lansky

Movie Review: Lansky
Summary: 5 Stars

Excellent movie. It explains how Las Vegas was founded and how the gangsters had a lot - if not all - to do with its development.

Summary of Lansky

Meyer Lansky, along with Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano, helped mold organized crime in America into "the Syndicate," a business run as efficiently and ruthlessly as any corporation. Richard Dreyfuss plays Lansky (as do Max Perlich and Ryan Merriman). Starting out with Lansky as an aging, ill, cranky man taking refuge in Israel, the film tells his life in a series of flashbacks, starting out as a young Jewish tough trying to hold his own against Irish gangs in New York. Lansky and his associates climb the ladder of crime over the years, turning Las Vegas from a quiet desert town into a swank gambling hot spot, eliminating any rogue elements or competition that could hurt the cause. Senator Estes Kefauver came along to put a dent in the Mob's activities by the l950s, but Lansky and company came through fairly unscathed. With direction by John McNaughton and a pungent David Mamet screenplay, this should be top-drawer stuff, but, oddly, it comes across as only average. The movie's chronological structure, jumping back and forth in time, becomes a little confusing, then irritating. Three actors playing the same man over the years make it a bit difficult to nail down his real essence, while several other characters are barely more than window dressing. Also, the Judaism of Lansky, Siegel, Rosen, and Rothstein is given short shrift in the story. With tighter editing and firmer direction, Lansky could have been very good, but as is, it's just what it is: a made-for-cable biopic. --Jerry Renshaw
A new version of an old story - the great American dream. LANSKY tells of a young emigrant's rise from poverty to riches through hard-edged business sense ... and a ruthless ability to murder anyone who gets in his way. Richard Dreyfuss is LANSKY - the man who organized organized crime.Running Time: 116 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 026359147425

Action & Adventure DVD Video

DVD Video
Movies most talked about in Best performances of Gangsters
Dick Tracy ImageDick Tracy
BEATTY,WARREN; Release date: 2002-04-02; DVD
Best price: $4.80
Price in other shops: $9.99
The Godfather, Part III (Widescreen Edition) ImageThe Godfather, Part III (Widescreen Edition)
PACINO,AL; Release date: 2005-05-24; DVD
Best price: $7.42
Price in other shops: $14.98
Lansky ImageLansky
Warner Brothers; Release date: 1999-07-27; DVD
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops: $9.98
Bugsy (Unrated Extended Cut) ImageBugsy (Unrated Extended Cut)
Sony; Release date: 2006-12-12; DVD
Best price: $13.68
Price in other shops: $19.94
Hoodlum ImageHoodlum
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 1998-02-04; DVD
Best price: $4.14
Price in other shops: $14.98
Brooklyn Rules ImageBrooklyn Rules
WEA DVD; Release date: 2007-09-18; DVD
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops: $29.98
Eastern Promises (Widescreen Edition) ImageEastern Promises (Widescreen Edition)
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.; Release date: 2007-12-23; DVD
Best price: $10.86
Price in other shops: $19.98
Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) ImageGangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Release date: 2003-07-01; DVD
Best price: $5.75
Price in other shops: $14.99
American Gangster (2-Disc Unrated Extended Edition) ImageAmerican Gangster (2-Disc Unrated Extended Edition)
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.; Release date: 2008-02-19; DVD
Best price: $8.24
Price in other shops: $29.98
Boss of Bosses ImageBoss of Bosses
Release date: 2001-10-23; DVD
Best price: $6.99
Price in other shops: $19.98
Similar DVD Movies
Hoffa ImageHoffa
Release date: 2004-01-27; DVD
Best price: $3.27
Price in other shops: $9.98
Mario Puzo's The Last Don ImageMario Puzo's The Last Don
Release date: 1998-12-22; DVD
Best price: $49.96
This Thing of Ours ImageThis Thing of Ours
MAVERICK ENTERTAINMENT; Release date: 2006-03-07; DVD
Best price: $3.00
Price in other shops: $14.98
The Last Don II ImageThe Last Don II
Release date: 1999-05-25; DVD
Best price: $7.87
Price in other shops: $14.98
Bugsy (Unrated Extended Cut) ImageBugsy (Unrated Extended Cut)
Sony; Release date: 2006-12-12; DVD
Best price: $10.96
Price in other shops: $19.94
Youngest Godfather ImageYoungest Godfather
Release date: 2005-02-08; DVD
Best price: $3.88
Price in other shops: $6.99
Nitti: The Enforcer ImageNitti: The Enforcer
Release date: 2006-02-28; DVD
Best price: $2.84
Price in other shops: $5.98
Gotti ImageGotti
Release date: 2000-09-19; DVD
Best price: $3.99
Price in other shops: $14.98
Boss of Bosses ImageBoss of Bosses
Release date: 2001-10-23; DVD
Best price: $6.99
Price in other shops: $19.98
Mobsters ImageMobsters
Release date: 2003-09-30; DVD
Best price: $3.64
Price in other shops: $9.99
Compare prices and read customer reviews for more than one million DVD titles.
Oscar 2005 Winners