An engineer and technical genius named Frank Crowe was in charge.

FORBES: American Pyramids

Opposing Frank is the real-life police detective Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe), who hunts Frank down with a group of irregulars (that is, honest cops) operating out of Essex County, New Jersey.

NEWYORKER: American Gangster

It stars Washington as 1970s Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas and Crowe as a New Jersey cop on his trail.

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