Lansky (1999)

Actors

• Eric Roberts (actor)
• Richard Dreyfuss (actor)
• Robert Miano (actor)
• Illeana Douglas (actress)
• Bert Remsen (actor)
• Beverly D'Angelo (actress)
• George S. Clinton (composer)
• Anthony LaPaglia (actor)
• Mickey Knox (actor)
• John Trujillo (miscellaneous crew)
• Deborah Ricketts (miscellaneous crew)
• David Mamet (producer)
• David Mamet (writer)
• Octavia Spencer (actress)
• Max Perlich (actor)

Genres

• Crime
• Drama

Taglines:

The Mind That Organized Crime.

Mobsters (1991)

Actors

• Anthony Quinn (actor)
• Seymour Cassel (actor)
• Christian Slater (actor)
• Robert Easton (miscellaneous crew)
• Burton Sharp (miscellaneous crew)
• F. Murray Abraham (actor)
• Robert Z'Dar (actor)
• Michael Gambon (actor)
• Pablo Ferro (miscellaneous crew)
• Ian Abercrombie (miscellaneous crew)
• Patrick Dempsey (actor)
• Lara Flynn Boyle (actress)
• Willie Garson (actor)
• Costas Mandylor (actor)
• Toni Basil (miscellaneous crew)

Genres

• Crime
• Drama

Taglines:

They rose from nothing to rule everything.
They didn't take orders...They took over.
They had what it took to build an empire...They just built it on the wrong side of the law.
So you think life was quieter in the old days...? THINK AGAIN!

Quotes:

Arnold Rothstein: Mr. Luciano, you're walking down the street. Suddenly you realize you're being followed. It's a hit. Walking towards you is a second gunman. You have time to fire at only one of them. Which one do...::Lucky: [cutting him off] I don't accept the question. To live, I gotta kill 'em both.

Lucky: I don't have a wife, because emotion is dangerous.::Arnold Rothstein: Aren't you human?::Lucky: Would it help?

Bugsy: I'm Bugsy Siegel, ever heard of me?::Showgirl: No, what do you do?::Bugsy: I kill people.

Don Salvatore Faranzano: [supposedly, Lucky offers his services to Faranzano as a mole against Don Masseria] I hope you can appreciate some facts, Charlie. Conditions have changed. Some people have gotten too powerful... I want you to take care of Don Masseria personally, do it yourself. That's not all, though. Lansky and Siegel. I know you've always gotten along, but Jews, they're different. You cross 'em once, fight with 'em once, and they're gone. I know this. I've heard they're a different race... Jews. You and I take Communion. They don't even believe in sin. They'll betray you, just like they betrayed Jesus H. Christ Himself. You join my family, they die. No one will even know you approved.::Lucky: Looks like I don't have a choice, do I? Either I agree to kill my friends, or you kill me.::Don Salvatore Faranzano: That's right.

Lucky: [to his father] What are you sayin, Pop? That because I'm a greasy immigrant, all I can do is clean fish? That ain't enough! I got a right to find work that uses my brain!

Don Salvatore Faranzano: [to Papa Luciano, after molesting both him and his wife] I just felt your balls, so I know why she needs her own.

Arnold Rothstein: I have ships and distilleries in Scotland. I need distribution in New York.::Lucky: Masseria? Faranzano?::Arnold Rothstein: Either of them would kill me.::Lucky: And I wouldn't because...?::Arnold Rothstein: You have Jewish partners.::Lucky: Maybe I kill them too.::Arnold Rothstein: You can't afford to; you're in the squeeze. Either Masseria or Faranzano realize you exist, they squash you like an ant...::Lucky: [the penny drops for him]... Unless I get a powerful friend, right?::Arnold Rothstein: [indicates himself] Exactly.

Arnold Rothstein: What's the secret of America? MONEY! Everything is MONEY, Charlie. But you'll never make any money, because you dress like a schmuck.

Frank Costello: [as the Big Four consider Faranzano's offer]... Fifteen percent off the top from Faranzano's operation, huh? You know how much money that is? Well, I don't either. But it's a hell of a lot.::Meyer Lansky: But as soon as we sold to Faranzano, he'd knock you off because you're Sicilian; one day, you might wanna be boss. If he iced you now, there'd be a stink all right. But if you're working for Faranzano, who's gonna come after him except the three of us? And then we'd all be history.::Lucky: That's why we're in partnership with these Jews, Frankie.

Don Giuseppe 'Joe the Boss' Masseria: [to Luciano] I've seen a lot of guys just like you come and go, Charlie. The ones who come, they come to me. The ones who go... [laughs]... I'm the guy who sends them off.

Eight Men Out (1988)

Actors

• Christopher Lloyd (actor)
• Charlie Sheen (actor)
• John Sayles (actor)
• John Sayles (writer)
• John Sayles (director)
• John Cusack (actor)
• David Strathairn (actor)
• Michael Lerner (actor)
• Michael Rooker (actor)
• John Anderson (actor)
• Richard Edson (actor)
• John Mahoney (actor)
• Clifton James (actor)
• Mason Daring (composer)
• Gordon Clapp (actor)

Genres

• Drama
• History
• Sport

Taglines:

1919. The year America saw major league baseball played a whole new way...underhanded.
The Scandal That Rocked A Nation
The inside story of how the national pastime became a national scandal.
When the cheering stopped, there were... Eight Men Out.
No player who throws ball games will ever play professional baseball again.

Quotes:

Chick Gandil: You go back to Boston and turn seventy grand at the drop of a hat? I find that hard to believe.::Sport Sullivan: You say you can find seven men on the best club that ever took the field willin' to throw the World Series? I find *that* hard to believe.::Chick Gandil: You never played for Charlie Comiskey.

[about their opponents]::1st Cincinnati Reds Player: These guys don't look so tough.::2nd Cincinnati Reds Player: Yeah, that's what Custer said when the Indians took the field.

Ring Lardner: [serenading White Sox after game 5, to the tune of "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"] I'm forever blowing ballgames, pretty ballgames in the air. I come from Chi, I hardly try, just go to bat and fade and die. Fortune's coming my way, that's why I hardly care. I'm forever blowing ballgames, and the gamblers treat us fair.

[Shoeless Joe Jackson is talking to his bat]::Shoeless Joe: Big whop now. Big whop, Betsy; you tell me when.::Freddie: Does it ever answer you, Joe?::Lefty Williams: Probably sleeps with it, too.::Lefty Williams: Lay off, you guys.::Hap Felsch: You crackers stick together, huh?::Swede Risberg: Ask it for a triple, Joe. You hear me?::Freddie: 60 years since the Civil War, Lefty. Ease up.::Hap Felsch: Besides, you guys lost. It was in all the papers.::Freddie: That wouldn't help Jackson none.::[Players laugh]::Lefty Williams: Just leave him be.

[Burns and Maharg are discussing Eddie Cicotte]::Bill Burns: Eddie's gettin' too old for this. I know what it's like. You walk out there with your arm hangin.::Billy Maharg: You couldn't pitch when you was young, Burnsie.::Bill Burns: Eddie's the key. If we don't get him, we can forget about it.

[Atell and Rothstein are discussing the plan to fix the series]::Abe Atell: They say that six or seven guys. I find that hard to believe.::Arnold Rothstein: Doesn't surprise me.::Abe Atell: Yeah, but they're the champs.::Arnold Rothstein: You were champ, Abe, you went down for the bucks.::Abe Atell: This is different.::Arnold Rothstein: Look, champ. I know guys like that. I grew up with them. I was the fat kid they wouldn't let play. "Sit down, fat boy'. That's what they'd say "Sit down, maybe you'll learn something." Well, I learned something alright. Pretty soon, I owned the game, and those guys I grew up with come to me with their hats in their hands. Tell me, champ, all those years of puggin', how much money did you make?::Abe Atell: The honest fights or the ones I tanked?::Arnold Rothstein: Altogether, I must've made ten times that amount betting on you and I never took a punch.::Abe Atell: Yeah, but I was champ. Featherweight champeen of the world!::Arnold Rothstein: Yesterday. That was yesterday.::Abe Atell: No A.R. you're wrong. I was champ, and can't nothin take that away.

Kid Gleason: People are human.

Ring Lardner: Sports writers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your bar privileges.

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis: Regardless of the verdict of juries... no player who throws a ball game... no player who undertakes, or promises to throw a game... no player who sits in conference with a bunch of crooked players and gamblers where the ways and means of throwing a ball game are discussed, and does not promptly tell his club about it... will ever play professional baseball again.

[Some New Jersey fans are arguing on whether a Hoboken outfielder is Joe Jackson (the outfielder is, in fact, Shoeless Joe)]::New Jersey Fan #1: You ever see him play?::New Jersey Fan #2: Yeah, I saw pictures.::New Jersey Fan #1: Pictures [scoffs]::Buck Weaver: I saw him play.::New Jersey Fan #1: Yeah? What do you think?::Buck Weaver: He was the best. Run, hit, throw... he was the best.::New Jersey Fan #1: So what do you think? Is it him?::Buck Weaver: Nah. Those fellas are all gone now.

Gangster Wars (1981)

Actors

• Robert Davi (actor)
• Jon Polito (actor)
• Vincent Schiavelli (actor)
• E.G. Marshall (actor)
• Michael Nouri (actor)
• Jonathan Banks (actor)
• George DiCenzo (actor)
• Richard C. Sarafian (director)
• Michael Fairman (actor)
• Joe Penny (actor)
• John Cacavas (composer)
• Joe Tornatore (actor)
• Robert F. Lyons (actor)
• Madeleine Stowe (actress)
• James Purcell (actor)

Genres

• Biography
• Crime
• History

King of the Roaring 20's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961)

Actors

• Harold Miller (actor)
• Mickey Rooney (actor)
• William H. O'Brien (actor)
• Ralph Brooks (actor)
• Charles Sherlock (actor)
• Bert Stevens (actor)
• Paul Bryar (actor)
• Regis Toomey (actor)
• Keenan Wynn (actor)
• Dennis Moore (actor)
• Fred Aldrich (actor)
• Arthur Tovey (actor)
• Franz Waxman (composer)
• William Demarest (actor)
• Samuel Bischoff (producer)

Genres

• Biography
• Crime
• Drama

Taglines:

The Roaring 20's. The Vice-Ridden Years Of The Jazz-Mad Era!
The hell-bent, jazz-crazed era and the man who ruled it all!

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)

Actors

• Wayne Fitzgerald (miscellaneous crew)
• Cosmo Sardo (actor)
• Howard Shoup (costume designer)
• Anne O'Neal (actress)
• Robert Lowery (actor)
• Roy Jenson (actor)
• Gordon Jones (actor)
• Ralf Harolde (actor)
• Dyan Cannon (actress)
• Leonard Rosenman (composer)
• Carey Loftin (actor)
• Sid Melton (actor)
• Dorothy Neumann (actress)
• Jesse White (actor)
• Robert 'Buzz' Henry (actor)

Genres

• Crime
• History

Taglines:

The Wildest Mobster of the Roaring Twenties!

Quotes:

Jack 'Legs' Diamond: You can't kill me, I'm Legs Diamond.

Teenager: [Staring at corpse] That's not Legs Diamond.::Cab Driver: [Grabs kid by the collar and forces him to have a good look] Take a look at that, kid. That's Legs Diamond and don't you ever forget it.

Rothstein, Arnold Filmography

• In Search of History: World Series Fix! The Black Sox Scandal
  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• American Justice: Target - Mafia
  1993, role: actor , character name: Himself