American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As archetypal as its title, Ridley Scott’s would-be epic aspires to enshrine Harlem ...

Gangster Life Depicted on FilmCrime has come to the movies in a big way. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe star in American Gangster, a film about the career of Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas. And the ...

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 ...

NBC News' Matt Lauer sits down with the people behind the new politically and emotionally explosive movie "American Gangster" -- actors Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, director Ridley Scott, ...

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 ...

For as much heat as they take, there’s often nothing quite like watching a great gangster movie. Gangsters are among the most compelling characters in America in part because they seem to be so ...

One of Russell Crowe’s most iconic movies that saw him team up with a two-time Oscar-winning star just got the streaming update that fans have been dreading. 18 years ago, Crowe starred alongside ...

Frank Lucas, the former Harlem drug kingpin whose life and lore inspired the 2007 movie 'American Gangster,' has died, a relative said Friday. He was 88. By The Associated Press Frank Lucas, the ...

In Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, Denzel Washington plays the title character, North Carolina-born Frank Lucas, a Harlem drug kingpin who, back during the Vietnam War, became both ghoulishly ...