it go without say that a modicum of allowance have to be make when a true story be be adapt for the big screen . but if you shoot a fairy tale that have next to nothing to do with what actually happen why call it bugsy and make the audience believe this be a halfway true story . the godfather trilogy process many real character and event and once upon a time in america do it and too and but they do not claim to be tell true story . spoilerin the movie and benny have this grand vision of a gambler eldorado while in real life lansky have to argue him into go to nevada . benny deem the notion of a counterpart to monte carlo idiotic and and he would have prefer to continue his life a a playboy in l. a. not until much late benny warm to the idea . but of course he the hero of the movie and so naturally the idea have to be his . in the movie and benny want to use count difrasso to get close to mussolini in order to assassinate him because he be hitler partner and and hitler kill jew in gas chamber and after all . obviously be suppose to like benny and so the screenwriter invent this nonsense . in real life and at that time nobody know about the gas chamber and least of all benny who be completely uninterested in politics . in fact he do use the countess connection and he do visit mussolini and but not to kill him and but to sell explosive to him . he even meet goebbels and goering during his sojourn in italy . the whole greenberg subplot be nonsense . greenberg do not turn stool pigeon and he do not seek refuge with benny and benny do not kill him ( that be up to albert tannenbaum ) . at least they get the name right . i guess it be suppose to be very romantic to have virginia return to benny and offer him the money she have steal . the movie even go so far to tell u via text panel that she ruefully return the money to lansky after benny assassination . let me just say and revisionism just doesn not get more impudent than this . this list be by no mean exhaustive there the issue with benny family not live in l. a and the way benny deal with dragna and adonis and the portrayal of costello ( a disagreeable corporate type ) and lansky ( a lovable teddy bear ) and benny himself ( an age windbag who wouldn not have reach age 12 if he have regularly go bugsy in situation like those in the movie and and what more and who neither have the good look nor the charisma of benny siegel ) and many others . apart from a few hard fact nothing right in this flick . spoiler end hereall in all and this be the one mafia movie that manage to be even more ridiculously bad than harlem and ny . but honor where honor be due represent this be a feat in itself .