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RONALD REAGAN: A CUSTOM MADE PRESIDENT

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RONALD REAGAN: A CUSTOM MADE PRESIDENT

Directors : Julia Kuperberg & Clara Kuperberg

Year : 2016

Running Time : 53 minutes

Network : ARTE France

In 1967, NewYork Police Department detective Ralph Salerno, made a prediction: “Organized Crime will put a man into the White House someday – and he won’t ever know until they hand him the bill”.

This man was Ronald Reagan. His file at the archives of the FBI carries the number 13.82.196. What did the FBI try to find out? Ronald Reagan’s relations with the underworld. Is there some proof needed? Just consult Dan E. Moldea’s Dark Victory, Ronald Reagan, MCA and the Mob.

While Clara and Julia Kuperberg piece together all the evidence available with investigative journalists who have researched the subject for decades, they also cleverly invite James Ellroy, an outspoken fan of Ronald Reagan’s to give his views, to discuss the career of the two times president in the context of his astonishing ascent to power in post- war America. We hear about a country that beneath all the Hollywood glitz and glamour is thoroughly corrupt.

Casting:

Dan E.Moldea Author of Dark Victory : Ronald Reagan, MCA and the Mob

James Ellroy Author of L.A Confidential

Gus Russo Author of Supermob

Dennis McDougal Author of Lew Wasserman The Last Mogul

Anne Edwards Author of Ronald Reagan The Rise to Power

Marvin Rudnick Former Prosecutor

John Meroney Journalist