Lepke (1975)

Lepke is the feared leader of Murder Incorporated in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis Lepke Buchalter Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong side of the law After getting out of jail Lepke and his pal Gurrah Shapiro join a gang who hire themselves out as strikebreakers and the vicious but clever Lepke soon rises through the ranks