American Gangster chronicles the criminal career of Frank Lucas, the right-hand of a Harlem mob boss who smuggled contraband ...

Actor Idris Elba collaborated with Denzel Washington for what used to be the latter’s highest-grossing movie American Gangster ... He was Frank Lucas, period. But I didn’t know.

Released in 2007, 'American Gangster' loosely chronicles the notorious life and times of Frank Lucas, a North Carolina mobster who notoriously smuggled heroin into the US using the coffins of fallen ...

Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin ...