Lucky Luciano

1973
R
1h 45m

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Biopic of Mafia boss Lucky Luciano, covering his life from 1946 to 1962 with occasional flashbacks.Biopic of Mafia boss Lucky Luciano, covering his life from 1946 to 1962 with occasional flashbacks.Biopic of Mafia boss Lucky Luciano, covering his life from 1946 to 1962 with occasional flashbacks.

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6.4/10

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Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations

Trivia
The mass murder of forty mob bosses on 11 September 1931 depicted in the film became to be known as the ""Night of the Sicilian Vespers".

Goofs
When Lucky Luciano is deported in the mid-Forties, far more modern buildings can be seen on the New York skyline.

Connections
Featured in Neapolitan Diary (1992)

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Luciano may be lucky but not the audience

This biography of notorious American racketeer Charles "Lucky" Luciano would have probably worked better if they had made it into a TV mini-series which traced his entire life from his poverty-stricken childhood in Sicily to his rise to power in New York's gangster underworld to his extradition to Italy in 1946 and, finally, his death from a heart attack in 1962. As a 2-hour movie covering the events of his life in Italy after his extradition, it just doesn't work. There's not enough action (eg. shootouts and fistfights) to make it worth watching. Plus, it moves slowly and it's very talky. The English dubbing of the French and Italian actors is great, but not enough to sustain your interest.

Rent "The Godfather" movies instead.

Rating: *1/2