Bugsy

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Movie Facts

Status: Released

Runtime: 134

Budget: -

Revenue: -

Language: en

Webpage: -

Release Info

1991-12-10
R
1992-03-12
16
1992-03-18
U

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Content Score: 100

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.

Tagline

Glamour was the disguise.

Crew

Director:	Barry Levinson
Writers:	Dean Jennings, James Toback

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Cast

Warren Beatty
as Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel

Annette Bening
as Virginia Hill

Harvey Keitel
as Mickey Cohen

Ben Kingsley
as Meyer Lansky

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Production Companies

TriStar Pictures, Baltimore Pictures

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A review by 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 Siegel, a notorious American mobster who rose to prominence in the 30s and 40s.

Barry Levinson’s epic film didn’t turn out to be the mobster film many had hoped for. There was great anticipation that this would be Levinson’s Goodfellas. What ultimately came to pass was a film of epic scope and det... read the rest.