Patrick Goldstein for the L.A. Times writes about his up-close and personal on location visit with major production players at the Slapsy Maxie’s movie set used in the upcoming crime drama film “The Gangster Squad, based on a spot-on series by the LA Times about the L.A.P.D. Gangster Squad, formed in 1946 to keep East Coast Mafia out of L.A
by Patrick Goldstein
Mickey Cohen’s raucous old nightclub, Slapsy Maxie’s, is long gone. But on a recent Friday night, I found myself roaming around a stylish replica of the legendary gangster’s old club where Warner Bros. is filming “The Gangster Squad,” which chronicles the real-life exploits of an elite group of 1940s LAPD officers who were given the rough ‘n tumble assignment of cleaning up the city, starting by running Cohen’s mob out of town.
The film, which is in the middle of a 68-day shoot that ends in mid-December, stars Sean Penn as Cohen, Emma Stone as a sultry femme fatale and Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Robert Patrick, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Mackie and Michael Pena as members of the Gangster Squad.
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