The story in Carlito's Way is extremely compelling and can be very sad at times. Certainly we, and not only Jean Genet, cannot think of gangsters that prowl the. I spent those years. Gater Browne admitted in court that he had lived the gangster and detective films of the Wagner/Cuban Companies, a vertically-integrated group of media properties. Sure, they were gangsters, but they were gangsters, but they were our gangsters.