One of the things I was most disappointed with in the movie was that it really failed to get more into the past life of Mickey Cohen. I know they brought up he was a boxer, but besides that, there wasn't very much mention of how he ended up with his power in California. As someone who is very interested in the gangster era of prohibition and on, I found myself googling Mickey Cohens name to find more information about where he was from, how he came to his power, etc. My question to you is, what roll did gangsters of an earlier era (such as Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Segal, etc) play in Mickey Cohen's rise and his control over LA?
Another question that wasn't really brought up in the movie, did the Chicago gangsters just sit by when they found out that Mickey was murdering their men? From my previous understandings of gangsters of the era, I doubt they would let something like that go unpunished.
One more question, what did the Jewish mobsters of the rest of the country think of Cohen and his power in LA? Did they endorse him, or did he kind of just take LA by himself and for himself? Did he have connections in Chicago/NYC?
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One of the things I was most disappointed with in the movie was that it really failed to get more into the past life of Mickey Cohen. I know they brought up he was a boxer, but besides that, there wasn't very much mention of how he ended up with his power in California. As someone who is very interested in the gangster era of prohibition and on, I found myself googling Mickey Cohens name to find more information about where he was from, how he came to his power, etc. My question to you is, what roll did gangsters of an earlier era (such as Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Segal, etc) play in Mickey Cohen's rise and his control over LA?
Another question that wasn't really brought up in the movie, did the Chicago gangsters just sit by when they found out that Mickey was murdering their men? From my previous understandings of gangsters of the era, I doubt they would let something like that go unpunished.
One more question, what did the Jewish mobsters of the rest of the country think of Cohen and his power in LA? Did they endorse him, or did he kind of just take LA by himself and for himself? Did he have connections in Chicago/NYC?
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