but it leaves out one of the most incredible Frank Lucas and Richie Roberts stories from after the gangster's release. Denzel ...

Richie Roberts, who is played by Russell Crowe in the film, criticised the depiction of Frank Lucas as a family man as “ludicrous” and “sickening”. Lucas advised on American Gangster ...

It was released in 2007, almost 40 years after the real Frank Lucas built ... for sparking his life of crime. Richie Roberts, ...

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La ... before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

Fuqua dove into the material, casting his "Training Day" star, Denzel Washington, as Frank Lucas and Benicio del Toro as Richie Roberts. Pre-production continued apace, albeit in a way that made ...

American Gangster is a 2007 crime film directed by Ridley Scott, featuring Denzel Washington as Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin in Harlem, and Russell Crowe as Richie Roberts, the detective ...

American Gangster tells the story of real-life mobster Frank Lucas, but the film leaves out one of his most interesting Richie Roberts connections. Lucas does this on more than one occasion in ...