Bugsy

Dec 10, 1991

2h 16m

★ 6.4

Glamour was the disguise.

Overview

New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Mystery

Production Companies

TriStar Pictures

Mulholland Productions

Baltimore Pictures

Bugsy Trailers

Cast

Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel

Warren Beatty

Virginia Hill

Annette Bening

Mickey Cohen

Harvey Keitel

Meyer Lansky

Ben Kingsley

Harry Greenberg

Elliott Gould

George Raft

Joe Mantegna

Countess di Frasso

Bebe Neuwirth

Charles "Lucky" Luciano

Bill Graham

Joe Adonis

Lewis van Bergen

Esta Siegel

Wendy Phillips

Jack Dragna

Richard C. Sarafian

Dancer

Karen Russell

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