Lepke (1975) on Netflix
Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter begins as a teenage petty thief. A prison term teaches him the criminal trade, and once free he and Gurrah Shapiro hire out as strikebreakers.
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Plot summary
Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter leads Murder Incorporated, the syndicate whose killings fill the era's headlines. He starts out as a petty thief in his teens, and a prison term teaches him how the criminal world works. Once out, he and his friend Gurrah Shapiro join a gang that hires out as strikebreakers. Lepke is vicious and clever, and he rises through the gang's ranks.
Cast
- Jack Ackermanas Little Augie
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lepke (1975)
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- Tony Curtis admitted in his 2008 autobiography American Prince that he became heavily addicted to cocaine during filming, an addiction that lasted a decade and badly derailed his already troubled career. His mother also died during filming.
- Tony Curtis said the part came from a filmmaker in Israel and that no Hollywood producer would have cast him in it; Lepke was his first feature in years after work in television and on stage.
- Golan said he chose Lepke as a subject because he grew up on American gangster films of Bogart and Cagney, and he told a 1974 interviewer he was afraid to touch a contemporary American subject and be disgraced like Miloš Forman and Antonioni.
