Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter is head of Murder Inc., the syndicate that spattered the headlines of the day with blood.Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter is head of Murder Inc., the syndicate that spattered the headlines of the day with blood.Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter is head of Murder Inc., the syndicate that spattered the headlines of the day with blood.
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- TriviaStar Tony Curtis with author Peter Golenbock revealed in Curtis' autobiography "American Prince: A Memoir" (2008) that he became heavily addicted to cocaine during production of this picture and would remain so for the next decade.
- GoofsIn the movie, Lepke's trusted partner Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro is shot to death at Coney Island while trying to protect Lepke from assassins. In real life, Shapiro turned himself in to the authorities, accepted a prison term, and actually outlived Lepke by several years, dying in prison of natural causes in 1947.
- Alternate versionsCBS edited 20 minutes from this film for its 1983 network television premiere.
Featured review
Lepke - Misfire
Lepke, played by Tony Curtis, goes from the turn of the century to 1940 looking pretty much the same doing each decade. Only in the movies. The sets are all wrong as well. The sets never seem to leave the 20s, when it is supposed to be the 40s. The "action" sequences are cheesy at best and the Italian gangsters are all lumped together in stereotypes, as the Jewish gangsters are the only one with families and a touch of humanity. The realities were that they were all equally scumbags. Mildly entertaining to see Curtis not age for thirty years.
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- arthur_tafero
- Oct 26, 2021
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- Budget
- $900,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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