Bugsy

New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.

Cast

Warren Beatty

as Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel

Annette Bening

as Virginia Hill

Harvey Keitel

as Mickey Cohen

Ben Kingsley

as Meyer Lansky

Elliott Gould

as Harry Greenberg

Joe Mantegna

as George Raft

Bebe Neuwirth

as Countess di Frasso

Bill Graham

as Charles "Lucky" Luciano

Lewis van Bergen

as Joe Adonis

Wendy Phillips

as Esta Siegel

Reviews

John Chard

Benjamin Siegel. Bugsy is directed by Barry Levinson and written by James Toback. It stars Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould and Joe Mantegna. Music is by Ennio Morricone and cinematography by Allen Daviau. Film is a biography adaptation of Benjamin Bugsy ...

GenerationofSwine

I just reviewed Reds, a movie where they managed to make John Reed boring and now I am reviewing Bugsy... a movie where they manage to make Bugsy Siegel boring. And honestly, like with Reds, Bugsy helped Luciano rise to power in what is one of the most interesting mafia stories in American histor...

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