Cohen, targeted by an elite police unit called the Gangster Squad, was jailed for four years for tax evasion in the early 50s. His armoured Cadillac was seized. In 1961 he was locked up for the ...

While mob killings like the Two Tonys murders remain unsolved, the squad savors Cohen's conviction on federal charges of income tax evasion -- and sets a trap for him.

Gangster Squad An impressively pulpy underworld-plunger that embellishes on a 1949 showdown between a dedicated team of LAPD officers and Mob-connected Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) for control of the ...

By the time the Gangster Squad was through with Cohen, “Mickey becomes this self parody, promoting his own image, selling shares of his life story — almost like out of ‘The Producers ...

In the movie based on Paul Lieberman's book, which inspired the "Gangster Squad" screenplay written by former LAPD homicide detective Will Beall, Sean Penn plays Cohen with the over-the-top ...

Imagine it's 1949, and you're a cop, and you get the assignment to form a vigilante squad of five or six men to bring down the empire of Mickey Cohen, the biggest gangster in Los Angeles. What ...

HOLLYWOOD (WWJ) – Ruthless gang lord Mickey Cohen was not to be denied. At least he thought. Cohen wanted to rule Los Angeles, and with police, local government officials and judges in his ...

“Gangster Squad” is inspired by true events and follows the off-the-books LA officers who, at the tail end of the 1940s, went after the notorious Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), his gang of mobsters ...

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That thought lingers in the air like the smoke off some moll’s cigarette at the end of the gory, only intermittently entertaining “Gangster Squad.” The film noir originally was slated for ...

To bring the story of mobster Mickey Cohen s reign over post-war Los Angeles to life, the director of Gangster Squad employed Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and more than 100 irreplaceable ...

Bombs, machine guns and a lead pipe – tough guys tried the lot on gangster Mickey Cohen but they could not kill him. The tricky crime boss survived working for Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel before ...