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Mobsters (1991) More at IMDbPro »

• Michael Gambon's first American film.
  
  
• Lara Flynn Boyle's character of Mara is loosely based on the real-life Gay Orlova, a chorus girl and escort whom Lucky Luciano dated while in New York.
  
  
• Feature-film debut of commercial director Michael Karbelnikoff, who replaced Luis Mandoki after Mandoki dropped out of the project.
  
  
• Working title was "Gangsters".
  
  
• In real life, Anthony Quinn was a close personal friend of gangster Frank Costello after the mob boss retired and until Costello's death.
  
  
• When "Lucky" Luciano and the others bring in "Mad Dog" Coll to offer him a chance to move to California, they get into a discussion about Coll's style of killing, to which Coll slaps "Bugsy" Siegel on the knee and laughs out "There's nothing so pretty as the back of a man's head!" Ironically, when Bugsy Siegel was murdered in 1947, he was shot through the back of the head.
  
  

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