{"id":44942,"date":"2024-08-21T03:21:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T07:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=44942"},"modified":"2024-08-25T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T00:25:09","slug":"last-man-standing-the-chronicles-of-myron-sugerman-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/21\/last-man-standing-the-chronicles-of-myron-sugerman-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: The Chronicles of Myron Sugerman (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/lastmanstanding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/lastmanstanding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/lastmanstanding.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/lastmanstanding-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/lastmanstanding-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Director Jonny Caplan\u2019s documentary is probably one of the most outstanding and entertaining crime documentaries of the year. Despite its short run time, he manages to unfold the story of a real underdog hero and anti-establishment mobster whose entire life was spent virtually kicking societal status quos in the ass. \u201cLast Man Standing\u201d is a True Crime Feature Documentary on the life of Myron Sugerman, son of Barney Sugerman, a partner of leading US mobster Meyer Lansky.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A member of the Jewish Mob who worked alongside the Italian Mob. A.K.A the \u2018Slot King\u2019, was a Lead financier to famed Austrian Nazi Hunter, Simon Wiesenthal, together they hunted Nazis in 80 countries, including locating psychotic Nazi Scientist Dr Josef Mengele.\u00a0Whether or not you consider Myron Sugerman an empathetic figure of history, there\u2019s no doubting that he\u2019s a charismatic figure.<\/p>\n<p>At his age it\u2019s shocking how much he\u2019s able to talk about his life and command the attention. Meanwhile director Jonny Caplan intersplices a lot of the accounts from Sugerman with pictures of him and his family with very influential historical figures. Having had\u00a0its\u00a0world premiere at the\u00a0Miami Jewish Film Festival, I could have listened to Myron Sugarman talk about his life and regail us with accounts of his criminal exploits for hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Director Caplan is so very aware of this fact, never breaking the film\u2019s momentum with clunky exposition or saccharine narration. Be sure to look out for \u201cLast Man Standing\u201d when it appears in local festivals. It\u2019s a surefire gem, especially for fans of out of the ordinary true crime stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Jonny Caplan\u2019s documentary is probably one of the most outstanding and entertaining crime documentaries of the year. Despite its short run time, he manages to unfold the story of a real underdog hero and anti-establishment mobster whose entire life was spent virtually kicking societal status quos in the ass. \u201cLast Man Standing\u201d is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[138,240,292,391,501],"class_list":["post-44942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-biography","tag-crime","tag-documentary","tag-gangster","tag-indie-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44944,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44942\/revisions\/44944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}