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Lansky (1999 Film)
''Lansky'' is a 1999 American television film, made-for-television crime film, crime drama (film and television), drama film written by David Mamet and directed by John McNaughton and starring Richard Dreyfuss as the famous gangster Meyer Lansky, Eric Roberts as Bugsy Siegel, and Ryan Merriman as the young Lansky. Plot The movie starts with flashbacks of Lansky's life, first showing an elderly Lansky looking for a rock to put on his grandfather's grave in Jerusalem. Upon seeing soldiers of the Israeli Defense Force, Lansky expresses regret that his grandfather never lived to see them. As he walks through a tunnel, he catches sight of an old man. He recalls how at the age of ten, he witnessed an elderly Jew being bludgeoned to death with an axe during a pogrom. Another flashback shows Lansky and his family fleeing as their shtetl is burned to the ground, his parents hastily packing up their valuables and preparing to immigrate to United States, America. Lansky's grandfather watches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uri Dan
Uri may refer to: Places * Canton of Uri, a canton in Switzerland * Úri, a village and commune in Hungary * Uri, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province * Uri, Jammu and Kashmir, a town in India * Uri (island), an island off Malakula Island in Vanuatu, South Pacific * Uri, Sardinia, a commune in Italy * Uri, Darfur, capital of the Tunjur kingdom People * Uri (name), a given name * Uri (Bible), two people in the Bible * Aviva Uri (1922–1989), Israeli painter * Eelco Uri (born 1973), Dutch water polo player * Helene Uri (born 1964), Norwegian linguist, novelist and children's writer * Jaan Uri (1875–1942), Estonian politician * Joannes Uri (1724–1796), Hungarian orientalist * Vanessa Uri (1981–2004), Filipina actress known as Halina Perez * Ya'akov Uri (1888–1970), Israeli politician Abbreviations * Ultrasound research interface, software * Uniform Resource Identifier, a string of characters used to identify a name or a resource * United Religions Init ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |