Jack Ruby - In the Mafia Network
| Movie | |
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| German title | Jack Ruby - In the Mafia Network |
| Original title | Ruby |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | John MacKenzie |
| script | Stephen Davis |
| production |
Steve Goin PolyGram Propaganda Films |
| music | John Scott |
| camera | Phil Meheux |
| cut | Richard Trevor |
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Jack Ruby - In the Mafia Network is an American film about the nightclub owner Jack Ruby , who is indirectly connected to the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy as the murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald .
The film was made in 1991 and premiered in March 1992. It speculates about Jack Ruby's motivation and background. Among other things, he shows Ruby as an emotionally unstable person in need of public attention and sheds light on his long-standing connections both to the American mafia and the police in Dallas, as well as his work as an FBI informant.
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The film is not a complete biographical adaptation of the historical character Jack Ruby, but shows excerpts from the last five years of his life.
He begins with Ruby's incredulous look back at his life and fades to a battered corpse. The film then jumps to 1962 Texas. Bar owner Jack Ruby is tasked with smuggling a gangster out of a Cuban prison. His ties to the US mafia are becoming even deeper and he is invited to a mafia meeting in Las Vegas.
His contacts to organized crime and to the obscure dodgy contact person Maxwell culminated in the 1963 murder of Lee Harvey Oswald two days after his assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy.
Reviews
"Elaborately filmed, well-acted and densely staged psychogram of a chess piece in the Kennedy assassination puzzle from 1963. A mix of political thriller and love story in a timely manner."
“An inconsistent, but not uninteresting psychogram of a man who, out of opportunism, finds himself between the fronts of great politics and the underworld. Sometimes exciting and captivating and then again tough and boring. "
"For everyone who liked Oliver Stone's JFK - Tatort Dallas ."
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Web links
- Jack Ruby - the web of the Mafia in the Internet Movie Database (English)