Originally Posted By: SinatraClub
No. Lansky never ran the mob. Not for a second, not EVER.


cosign. The part of the Last Testament where Lucky goes off on a rant about Lanksy and Jews taking over the mafia was in the finale and should be read like a greatly exaggerated movie ending, cause that's all it was.

Obviously the movie script never got presented to one of the big movie production firms of the time. If it were, that part would have gotten the script rejected (by the overwhelmingly Jewish Hollywood establishment) or it would have been edited out. I go with it being rejected. After WW2, anti semitism generated a paranoid fear anywhere it appeared, even today.


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