It's 1949 Los Angeles, and gangster Mickey Cohen has moved in, with the intention of controlling all criminal activity in the city. He has bought local judges and police, and no one is willing to ...

It's 1949 in Los Angeles, where east-coast gangster Mickey Cohen (Penn) has upped and moved to the west, practically taking over the entire state with his drug, prostitution and gambling empires.

the non-Jewish actor Ben Kingsley played Lansky — Keitel played a different Jewish gangster, Mickey Cohen. But probably the most famous movie portrayal of Lansky was a fictionalized version ...