: After the death of his mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) establishes himself as Harlem’s premier heroin importer. He bypasses traditional mafia middlemen by smuggling pure heroin directly from Southeast Asia using U.S. military planes returning from the Vietnam War. His product, branded as "Blue Magic," is twice as pure and half the price of his competitors' heroin.
Released in 2007, American Gangster is a biographical crime drama directed by Ridley Scott that explores the rise and fall of Frank Lucas, a real-life drug kingpin who dominated the Harlem heroin trade during the 1970s . American Gangster(2007)
The film follows two parallel stories that eventually collide: : After the death of his mentor, Bumpy