luciano, lucky

Lucky Luciano is slipped out of prison during World War II as a part of an effort to get the Italian peasantry to revolt against the Nazi German occupiers and aid the invading American units.

Chronicles the life of Lucky Luciano, detailing mobster's involvement in the New York underworld from his early days as a hit man, discussing how his reputation was a facade maintained by government agents, and revealing what Luciano did and did not do to help the Allies during World War II.