Beniker Gang, The - DVD

Pay now. Or pay with your life. Armed and arrogant, a baby-faced teen named Honeyboy Willard terrorizes hardened rumrunners until they agree to shell out protection money. Soon Honeyboy and his underage thugs, the Purple Gang, control Detroit, turning the screws until local businessmen, driven to desperation, call in the Chicago Mafia to outmuscle their homegrown mob. Disarmingly boyish, Robert Blake (In Cold Blood) makes a chilling Hon

The gangster grew up tough, got tougher with the years. But now slicker, smarter criminals are moving in on his rackets. The man who prided himself on his control of any situation realizes he may not be tough enough. And what once was self-confidence becomes the unfamiliar but overwhelming emotion of fear. The treacherous world of film noir combines with psychological suspense in a probing, surprising tale rumored to be an uncredited wo

At 47, LEON (played fearlessly by John Rezaj) was once the righthand muscle of feared Albanian mafia boss, Murat Dreshaj. Once a legend, respected, feared, with the Bronx and NYC at his feet, a man who took six bullets and survived with the scars to prove it, a man nowafter 18 years in prisontoday, a legend only in his own mind. Living in his mothers basement, a rabid dog harboring untold grievances, desperate for the life and dreams he knew were his, now all pinned on LISA (Ashley C. Williams), the new girl at his local spot. But all comes crashing down the night he bumps into the man who ratted him out all those years ago, a former colleague, turned informant (Brian Patrick Murphy). The film traces our flawed protagonist as he spirals out of control, grappling with what it means to be a man in his culture, where the code states a head for a head, or blood for blood, where a man is only as good as his word, his willingness to redeem his honor, or he should go home and wash his dirty face.