Tony Curtis, Anjanette Comer, Michael Callan

This film biography of gangster Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (who headed the notorious syndicate known as "Murder Inc.") provides insight into the Jewish underworld of the 1930s. Lepke's life of crime can ...( read more  read more... )be traced back as far as his childhood, when he was a liar and a thief. He grew up to become a troubled juvenile delinquent, and later a respected, feared gangster, whose contemporaries included Lucky Luciano, Legs Diamond and Dutch Schultz. However, Lepke learned the hard way that crime does not pay -- and can lead to death...

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Directed by: Menahem Golan

Release Date: May 23, 1975

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  • September 22, 2008
    Hey, I had to request to get this on here. How many others will I have to do that to? Anyway, in the wake of the Godfather there were tons of Mafia flicks starring everyone and his brother. This one is interesting because it has Tony Curtis and Milton Berle in it and because it w...( read more)as directed by Menahem Golan, who would later help form Cannon films. This thing is almost a template for most of the product they would eventually produce.
  • August 18, 2009
    this has officialy became one of my favourite movies of all time

    im a huge fan of movies like this based on gangsters of the 30s/40's especially ones like lepke and al capone etc

    i thought the story was great and was good to see that they done it so it actually portrayed what ...( read more)happened and they didnt make it so it suited hollywood

    i thought tony curtis was outstanding in this movie, but then again he always is he is an outstanding actor and a true legen

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