Denzel Washington starred in American Gangster at 53 years old. He played the leading drug lord, Frank Lucas, and did so with the highest combination of charm and danger. Oh, and not forgetting, a ...

The ruling cliché in writing about crime bosses — “the gangster as tragic hero” — was coined in 1948 by Robert Warshow, an extremely intelligent cultural critic, whose premature passing in 1955 robbed ...

American Gangster, an epic crime movie starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, and directed by Ridley Scott, tells the compelling true story of Harlem crime boss Frank Lucas, leading many ...