American Desperado
- Release Date
- October 3, 1979
- Director
- Peter Berg
- Cast
- Mark Wahlberg
- Runtime
- 87
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Writers
- William Monahan
- Tagline
- It'll Blow You Away!
Summary
"Cocaine Cowboys" is the story of Jon Roberts, an injured Vietnam vet by age 20 who ended up involved in gangland takeovers of New York City nightclubs in the early '70s (his uncle was the consigliere to Carlo Gambino). By the end of the decade, Roberts landed in Miami, dealt billions of dollars worth of coke for the Medellin drug cartel and ultimately spent 10 years in prison. Billy Corben's popular documentary of the same name, released by Magnolia in 2006, covered a slice of Roberts' history.
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