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American Gangster, Part 1

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Dave and Joanna talk about this fast-paced but very long film with so many cameos but maybe too many characters. Denzel gives a stellar performance as real-life gangster Frank Louis, but how much is real is up for debate . . . after all, gangsters aren’t known for being entirely truthful. This episode is sponsored by: Raycon (https://www.buyraycon.com/tvh) Truth vs Hollywood’s theme is “Temples” by Six Umbrellas (http://www.sixumbrellas.de/) . Music in this episode is “Distilled” by Nctrnm (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nctrnm) ; “Passages” by Kai Engel (https://www.kai-engel.com/) ; and “I Bet You Wonder Why” by Lee Rosevere (https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/) . Sound effects from freesound.org (http://freesound.org/) by qubodup (https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/182109/) . Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

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