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The Virginia Hill Story
By Juleen Compton - Film
Roles
- Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
- Nick Rubanos
About this piece
Nick Rubanos asks Bugsy Siegel to give up the "Flamingo"
Summary
This is the story of Virginia Hill (Dyan Cannon) who, in the 30s and 40s was the lover of several gangsters including Leo Ritchie (Allen Garfield) Nick Rubanos (John Vernon) and Bugsy Siegel (Harvey Kietel). When Nick Rubanos sends her to Los Angeles to make contacts, she meets Bugsy Siegel. Siegel is looking for investors to build a casino in Las Vegas, the "Desert Flower", and Virginia gets Nick to invest in it. Siegel steals some of the money invested and eventually the hotel is a failure. In this scene Nick Rubanos and Bugsy Siegel meet to discuss the hotel. After some chit chat, Nick asks him to give up the hotel to save his own life. Bugsy refuses. As the scene starts Nick is eating a cheesecake and Bugsy walks in smoking a cigar...
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