Product Description Warren Beatty and Annette Bening star in the incredible true story of Benjamin Bugsy Siegel, the playboy gangster who betrayed the Mob for love. A cold-blooded killer who dreamed of Hollywood stardom, a crazed patriot who plotted against Mussolini, and the brilliant visionary who carved Las Vegas out of the dry Nevada desert, Bugsy had it all. Until he fell for the one woman who wanted more. A critical masterpiece, BUGSY is a remarkable collaboration of Hollywood's best: director Barry Levinson, screenwriter James Toback, and an all-star supporting cast that includes Harvey Keitel, Oscar(r)-winner Ben Kingsley (Best Actor, Gandhi,1982), Joe Mantegna, and Elliott Gould. But at the center of itall is the white-hot romance between Bugsy and the insatiable starlet, Virginia Hill. .com Bugsy represents an almost miraculous combination of director, writer, and star on a project that represents a career highlight for everyone involved. It's one of the best American gangster movies ever made--as good in its own way as any of the Godfather films--and it's impossible to imagine anyone better than Beatty in the movie's flashy title role. As notorious mobster and Las Vegas visionary "Bugsy" Siegel, Beatty is perfectly cast as a man whose dreams are greater than his ability to realize them--or at least, greater than his ability to stay alive while making those dreams come true. With a glamorous Hollywood mistress (Annette Bening) who shares Bugsy's dream while pursuing her own upwardly mobile agenda, Bugsy seems oblivious to threats when he begins to spend too much of the mob's money on the creation of the Flamingo casino. Meyer Lansky (Ben Kingsley) and Mickey Cohen (Harvey Keitel) will support Bugsy's wild ambition to a point, after which all bets are off, and Bugsy's life hangs in the balance. From the obvious chemistry of Beatty and Bening (who met and later married off-screen) to the sumptuous reproduction of 1940s Hollywood, every detail in this movie feels impeccably right. Beatty is simply mesmerizing as the man who invented Las Vegas but never saw it thrive, moving from infectious idealism to brutal violence in the blink of an eye. Director Barry Levinson is also in peak form here, guiding the stylish story with a subtle balance of admiration and horror; we can catch Bugsy's Vegas fever and root for the gangster's success, but we know he'll get what he deserves. We might wish that Bugsy had lived to see his dream turn into a booming oasis, but the movie doesn't suggest that we should shed any tears. --Jeff Shannon Bugsy: Extended Cut special features Anyone who's heard how intense (or perhaps the word is "torturous") it can be to make a film with Warren Beatty will be captivated by the behind-the-scenes extras on the Bugsy: Extended Cut DVD. The highlight is the chat among screenwriter James Toback, director Barry Levinson, and star and co-producer Beatty on how the project and the final film came to be. Tellingly, Beatty is sitting quite apart from the other two, though they're in a semi-circular banquette at Perino's in Los Angeles. The conversation starts out slowly, with Toback, a genial blowhard, talking about losing the original script, but it picks up steam when the topic turns to the casting of the excellent actors in the film, including Sir Ben Kingsley and Elliott Gould, who also participate. And of course the most interesting off-screen component of the project--Beatty meeting his future wife, costar Annette Bening--is given a fun spotlight in the film. Levinson remembers that after meeting Bening for the first time, Beatty called him enthusiastically saying, "She's great, I love her, I'm going to marry her" ("you know, just a throwaway line," Levinson says, laughing), and Toback and Levinson and Bening herself talk about the signs the two were slowly falling in love. It's as dishy as anything you're likely to see about the notoriously private Beatty, and well worth the investment. Other extras include several deleted scenes that are now included in the film (and unlike many other "extended cut" releases, actually enhance the depth of the story). One is a harrowing scene in which Bugsy contemplates, and nearly commits, suicide, via Russian roulette. Another is an amusing screen test that Siegal takes, thinking his roguish charm will translate to the big screen. Though it takes Beatty's considerable talents to make that happen, the earnestness of Siegal's outsider character is touching in glimpses like this. --A.T. HurleyBeyond Bugsy Other Gangsters films on .com More Films staring Warren Beatty See the true story Stills from Bugsy (click for larger image)
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A TRUE MASTERPIECE GANGSTER LOVESTORY
I've watched this film about 30 times.This is my hidden best film of all times next to <Time of the Gypsies> and <Double life of Veronique>.Also I feel like it is sometimes even better then the <Godfather trilogy> in some way.It has more passion in acting, good lighting, camerawork, great music by Ennio Morricone, and above all unforgettable ending.As everybody knows Bugsy is the one who discovers the Las Vegas and build the first casino hotel there and named it a flaminco. It is still there in Las Vegas although it is running by a different guy now.Bugsy<Warren Beatty> is a guy who is very quixotic, idealistic guy who does not interested much about money. He is rather interested in making or doing something that is not tengible but something that can be something to be hailed in the future.Also his moto is Everyone needs a second chance and anyone can be changed.That's what he believed about Vigrinia<Annete Benning> who everybody think is a whole who hangs aroung with anything that move.He is also very sanguine and if he is mad, no one can stop him. He can kill anyone, I, men anyone that he wants. He has no fear at all.But when he got an eye on Virginia<Annete Benning>, he gave up anything and spends everything to have her. Time, money and even his reputaion and his neck.Virginia<Annete Benning> found out he really loves her and for the first time she changed herself and falls into him. She even gives up the stolen money and comes back to him when he was about to fly to LA when he has trouble building LAS VEGAS bacause of lack of money.When Bugsy<Warren Beatty> was murdered, she returnes all the stolen money to Meyer Lansky<Ben Kingsley>, Busy's true friend who tried to protect Busy from being murder, and she killed herself in Europe.There are so many beautiful shots in this movie and the most beautiful moment I remember was when Virginia<Annete Benning> first visits to Bugsy<Warren Beatty>'s new house in LA and when he was watching a pantomime through the film projected through the screen, When two of them are behind the screen the light from the projector enlights two of them and make them look like shadow animation and when they kiss with each other with the most beautiful music composed by Ennio Morriocone, that was the most enchantng moment from the movie that I can never forget. They were fighting and talking with each other saying if this relationship goes on, there will be nothing but pain and angony. And Busy says there will be a fresh start and we will be ok, something like that which will not be it at the end.As time goes by, Virginia<Annete Benning> slowley becomes like Bugsy<Warren Beatty> and when Bugsy was in a prison for a short time and Virginia was taking care of the construction area in Las Vegas, Meyer Lansky<Ben Kingsley> visits and says you are becomming more like Bugsy everyday. She sure does. She talks like him and acts like him.This movie is about love and the idealist's sad ending.It's a beautiful sad tragedy and when I saw THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS winning the OSCAR over this movie, I was so angry that I couldn't even sleep. I remember that day so well. This movie should have won at least 10 Oscar.THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS was just a boxoffice his movie.This movie on the other hand should be remember forever.It is a true masterpiece.
K**M
Vegas
Love this movie
N**E
Love!!
I really love this movie!!!
K**N
Jewish Gangster .... Legend .... Shalom .... ****
I had seen this movie more than a decade ago on cable... To be honest it's pretty good and I give praise to the crew for molding it ..into a vintage era biographical movie. Warren Beatty you can't help but adore him... such a handsome man ....! I recall seeing him in movies ..and just thinking to myself.. "What a thing of BEAUTY".... Yes he's the brother of actress Shirley McClain ... what I would like to know is who does he inherit his s*x appeal from ? Anette Bening ..was so goddess like in this movie ... She's pulled off the perfect Virginia Hill... Actress Diane Cannon played a similar movie with actor Harvey Keitel ...about the Hill & Siegel relationship in a movie years before this one came out. The late Benjamin Siegel ..was really ahead of his time... and he paid a price for what ever professional mistakes he may have made ... His daughter "Millicent Siegel" died in 2017 at the age of 86 years old ...was the spitting image of him... Virginia Hill died in 1966 ..leaving a son named Peter...this movie certainly had a who's..who from Central casting... Harvey Keitel,,Ben Kingsley,,Joe Mantegna,,Elliot Gould,,Bebe Neuwirth,,James Toback,,Bill Graham,,Wendi Malick,,Eric Christmas,,...So if your a nostalgia fan ..and you want to see a classic with some accuracy...I suggest this one.. Tell them that Clyde sent ya... (That's a nod from another Warren Beatty) golden oldie..
K**A
LOVE IT!!!
LOVE IT!!!
R**S
“It’s Ben , or Benjamin !”
Love a good gangster movie , with a little nostalgia ! Beatty and Bening are outstanding , and if I recall this is where they first met and fell in love . I recommend watching this film .
R**B
The Best!
This is a Classic! Excellent acting and cinema!
J**.
Unconvincing Acting.
Great story and photography, but the acting was not convincing (for a mob story) which ruined the movie's impact.
R**Y
Eine Stadt in der Wüste...
Wer die Ermordung des Mobsters Bugsy Siegel am 20. Juni 1947 tatsächlich in Auftrag gegeben hat, ist bis heute nicht einwandfrei geklärt. Neben seinen Jugendfreunden Lansky der in Barry Levinsons Film "Bugsy" von Ben Kingsley gespielt wird und dem Gangsterboss Luciano gab es noch weitere Mafiagrößen, die mit der Entwicklung des "Flamingo" Projekts äusserst unzufrieden waren. Bugsy Siegel hatte die große Idee mitten in der Wüste von Nevada ein ganz großes Ding aufzuziehen: Ein riesiges Kasino mit Hotel und Swimmingpool, dass mächtig viel Geld abwerfen sollte. Es war eine Vision, die zuerst einmal mit 1 Million Dollar veranschlagt wurde und später um mehr als das sechsfache an benötigtem Bugdet verschlang. Die dazu benötigten Geldmittel wurden hauptsächlich von der amerikanischen Cosa Nostra zur Verfügung gestellt. Nicht nur die Versechsfachung des Budget trug zu Mißtrauen seiner Geldgeber bei. Es kam auch der Verdacht auf, dass seine Freundin Virginia Hill zwei Millionen US-Dollar in die Schweiz transferiert wurde. Die Situation wurde derart gefährlich für den Mobster. Das Flamingo wurde dennoch eröffnet und es sah zuerst tatsächlich nach einem riesigen Flop aus, dadurch war das Ende von Bugsy Siegel besiegelt. Sein Traum wurde aber wahr und er sollte mit seiner Vision Recht behalten, denn das "Flamingo" war der Startschuß für die Glücksspielerstadt Las Vegas. In der Zukunft erwartete die Macher ein Umsatz von über 100 Milliarden Dollar. Warren Beatty spielte die Titelrolle und nach dem Gewinn des Golden Globe als bestes Filmdrama galt "Bugsy" bei der Oscarverleihung 1992 mit insgesamt 10 Nominierungen (Bester Film, Beste Regie, bester Hauptdarsteller Warren Beatty, die Nebenrollendarsteller Harvey Keitel und Ben Kingsley, Komponist Ennio Morricone, Kameramann Allen Daviau, bestes Drehbuch James Toback, beste Kostüme und bestes Szenenbild) als Favorit. Doch in der Nacht der Oscarverleihung triumphierte Jonathan Demmes "Das Schweigen der Lämmer". Am Ende der Veranstaltung wurde der Film nur mit den Trophäen für das beste Szenenbild und das beste Kostümdesign prämiert. Der Film basiert auf dem Leben des amerikanischen Gangsters und seiner Beziehung zu seiner Frau und dem Starlet Virginia Hill.Im Jahr 1941 geht der Gangster Benjamin „Bugsy“ Siegel (Warren Beatty), der seit seiner Kindheit mit Meyer Lansky (Ben Kingsley) und Charlie Luciano (Bill Graham) als Gangster zusammengearbeitet hatte, nach Los Angeles und verliebt sich sofort in Virginia Hill (Annette Benning), ein hartnäckiges Hollywood-Starlet. Die beiden treffen sich zum ersten Mal, als Bugsy den Schauspieler George Raft (Joe Mantegna) am Set von Manpower besucht. Er kauft ein Haus in Beverly Hills und plant, dort zu bleiben, während seine Frau (Wendy Phillips) und seine beiden Töchter in Scarsdale, New York, bleiben. Bugsy ist in Kalifornien, um dem schwachen Los-Angeles-Familienboss Jack Dragna (Richard C. Jarrafin) die Kontrolle über Wettbüros zu entreißen. Eines Tages raubt der aufsteigende jüdische Gangster Mickey Cohen (Harvey Keitel) Dragnas Betrieb aus. Er wird von Bugsy konfrontiert, der beschließt, mit dem Mann Geschäfte zu machen - und nicht mit dem Mann, der ausgeraubt wurde. Cohen wird mit der Leitung der Wettkasinos beauftragt; Dragna muss einem wütenden Bugsy gestehen, dass er ebenfalls 14.000 Dollar gestohlen hat und erfährt, dass er nun Cohen gegenüber Rechenschaft ablegen muss. Nach Streitigkeiten über Virginias Rendezvous mit dem Schlagzeuger Gene Krupa und verschiedenen Stierkämpfern und Bugsys Widerwillen, sich scheiden zu lassen, unternimmt Virginia einen romantischen Schachzug gegen Bugsy. Auf einer Reise nach Nevada, um einen Wartungsbesuch in einem Glücksspiellokal zu tätigen, kommt Bugsy die Inspiration für ein Luxushotel und Casino in der Wüste von Nevada, das zufällig im einzigen Bundesstaat liegt, in dem Glücksspiel legal ist. Er erhält eine Million US-Dollar von Lansky und anderen New Yorker Gangstern, mit dem Ziel, groß rauszukommen und es in Nevada legal zu machen.... Barry Levinson ist ein klasse Gangsterfilm der alten Schule gelungen mit sehr guten Darstellerleistungen. Der Schlagabtausch zwischen Beatty und Bening ist sehr sehenswert und wird aggressiv geführt. Neben der schönen Scheinwelt Hollywoods und der zukünftigen Glitzerwelt einer Glücksspielstadt inmitten der Wüste wird das schmutzige Mordgeschäft der Mobsters gezeigt. Bugsy fackelt nicht lange und mordet ohne Skrupel. Insgesamt spielte "Bugsy" 49 Millionen Dollar ein.
M**D
Movie
Great movie
K**R
but enjoyed it so much that I bought a DVD from ...
I have just watched this movie on my small pc, but enjoyed it so much that I bought a DVD from Amazon.ca. Although I don't consider Warren Beatty a great actor, I am a big fan of Annette Bening. She looks so beautiful in this movie. Beatty was a very lucky man to have her marry him!!!
A**6
Bugsy le film
Film retrançant de façon "romancé"la vie du gangster Benjamin Siegel, à la fois à New york, LA, et Las Vegas, période comprise entre 1940 et son assasinat à la fin des années 40. C'est sympa à regarder, les acteurs sont bons, surtout Annette B, la reconstitution des années 40 et relativement bien faite, les
R**K
Good
It Arrived quickly. "Twenty dwarfs took turns doing handstands on the carpet..." My wife and I watched this DVD for the history of the Flamingo hotel in Vegas because we will be staying there soon.
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