Bender orders the castration of Valachi's business partner, Dominick 'The Gap' Petrilli for having relations with Genovese's wife. Valachi's rise in the Mafia is hampered by his poor relations with his capo, Tony Bender. Valachi then marries Mildred after getting the blessing to do so by her mother.
I can only kill the living." After the funeral, the murder of Renia, Joe Masseria, is himself killed by 'Lucky' Luciano. At the funeral for Renia, Maranzano consoles Renia's widow by saying "I cannot bring back the dead.
Valachi serves Reina well until the day that Renia is murdered in a drive-by shooting during the Castellammarese War, forcing Valachi to hide out at Renia's house, where he meets and falls in love with Reina's daughter, Mildred. Maranzano initiates Valachi into the Mafia, and then assigns Gaetano Renia to be Valachi's boss. He tells his life story in flashbacks, from when he was a young criminal to a gangster associating with bosses such as Salvatore Maranzano. Told of the mistake by federal agent Ryan, Valachi becomes an informant, and is then transferred to Quantico to begin telling Ryan all that he knows. Valachi mistakenly kills a fellow prisoner, Joseph Saupp, who he wrongly thinks is a mob assassin. Valachi is also the recipient of an attempted attack in the shower days before, which might have been caused by Genovese. Genovese is certain that Valachi is an informant, and gives him the " kiss of death," whereupon Valachi kisses him back. The boss of his crime family, Vito Genovese, is imprisoned there as well. Joseph Valachi is an aging prisoner in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, who was imprisoned for smuggling heroin. O'Loughlin, Guido Leontini, Amedeo Nazzari, Fausto Tozzi, Pupella Maggio, and Angelo Infanti. The film stars Charles Bronson as Valachi and Lino Ventura as crime boss Vito Genovese, with Jill Ireland, Walter Chiari, Joseph Wiseman, Gerald S.
It tells the story of Joseph Valachi, a Mafia informant in the early 1960s who was the first ever mafioso to acknowledge the organization's existence. It is an adaptation of the 1968 non-fiction book of the same name by Peter Maas, with a screenplay by Stephen Geller. A violent, tough-talking gangster feature with fine cast associated.The Valachi Papers is a 1972 Italian-French crime neo noir directed by Terence Young. The workmanlike execution gives the air a brutal (one raw act of violence would have any male squirming) and hardboiled touch, crafting well etched period (through the 1930s) location details and a having profound power in its escalating dramatics. For a running time of just over two hours, never does it feel it or seem to drag. Director Young does a steadily routine job, but it's well done for such a minimal and straight looking production. O'Loughlin, Angelo Infanti and Amedeo Nazzari. A steadfast Bronson perfectly nailed down the lead with excellently respectable support by the likes of Lino Ventura, Joseph Wiseman, Walter Chiari, Gerald S. The plot was adapted off Peter Maas' novel of the same name that covers this true account of the mafia underworld and organised crime. While not as stylish, it managed to have scope in its tough, trim and grippingly told narration splitting between past recounting and present situations. "The Valachi Papers" probably came and went with little notice. Coming out the same year as the similar in vein, but masterful classic "The Godfather". This would be the third European film of the trot between Charles Bronson and director Terence Young with the gritty crime flick "Cold Sweat (1970)" and buddy western "Red Sun (1971)" being the two before it. Joe decides to spill his guts on the inner workings (extortion, vengeance and murder) of LaCosa Nostra for some sort of protection for him and his family. When he learns of it with there being no way of getting out of it when receives the kiss of death. The following year Charles Bronson would team up with director Michael Winner as a cop on the trail of the mafia, but the year before in "The Valachi Papers" he would find himself smack in the middle of it all as former mobster Joe Valachi serving 15 years in prison with a target on his head of twenty thousand dollars by mafia capo Vito Genovese.
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