American Gangster
Film · 157 min · English · 2007
Directed by Ridley Scott
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.
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- Catalogued entity (metadata)
- Film Rites
- Country of origin
- United States
- Catalogued
- 2026-09-27
- Registry ID
- MRR-2007-FLM-906255
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