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The film is 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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5 de dic. de 2021 · David Howells/Corbis/Getty Images Richie Roberts, who is portrayed by actor Russell Crowe in the film American Gangster. How Frank Lucas supposedly got his hands on this “Blue Magic” is perhaps the wildest detail of all: He allegedly smuggled the 98-percent-pure heroin into the United States by using the coffins of dead soldiers ...
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Lucas boasted that he smuggled heroin using the coffins of dead American servicemen, as depicted in the feature film American Gangster (2007), which fictionalized aspects of his life. This claim was denied by his Southeast Asian associate Leslie "Ike" Atkinson .
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- September 9, 1930, La Grange, North Carolina, U.S.
- Julie Farrait (m. 1967)
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18 de jun. de 2013 · In an interview, Frank said that this really happened, but that he did not pay the cop off in the street as shown in the movie American Gangster. Instead, the detective took Lucas to the station house, where Lucas agreed to pay the detective "30 grand and two keys."
29 de jul. de 2023 · 5.9K. 1M views 6 months ago. ...more. In this incredible double documentary, we hear the TRUE story of Frank Lucas aka 'American Gangster'. Subscribe to Our History: https://bit.ly/3v5mKBG...
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Gánster americano: Dirigido por Ridley Scott. Con Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin. Un policía de Nueva York debe detener al mayor narcotraficante de Harlem Frank Lucas.
En la cinta de crimen y drama Gánster americano, dirigida por Ridley Scott ( Gladiador ), a finales de la década de los años 60, la situación del crimen organizado en Nueva York, que se había mantenido separado para evitar una guerra callejera, queda sin dirección cuando el líder Bumpy Johnson muere de un ataque cardíaco.
