Rating: PG
Genre: Crime
Release Date: 01/03/2006
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 125 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

This crime action movie is based on Peter Maas' best-selling book The Valachi Papers. That book, in turn, is based on prison conversations and the actual U.S. Senate testimony of Joseph Valachi, a high-ranking figure in the Mafia. The book, which tells precisely who did what to whom, when and why, electrified the nation. This film had to be made in Italy, because attempts to shoot in the U.S. were stymied by mob-arranged "accidents" and protests. The story is told in flashback as Valachi (Charles Bronson) tells a Federal agent about his activities from 1929 to 1961, when he worked for the Capo of Capos, Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura). Though his tale necessarily takes place in a number of episodes, it never fails to have lots of drama and action.

~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Charles Bronson - Joseph Valachi
Lino Ventura - Vito Genovese
Jill Ireland - Maria
Joseph Wiseman - Salvatore Maranzano
Walter Chiari - Dominick "The Gap" Petrilli
Amedeo Nazzari - Gaetano Reina

Production:
Terence Young - Director
Dino de Laurentiis Nino E. Krisman - Producer
Riz Ortolani - Composer
Johnny Dwyre - Editor
Stephen Geller Arduino Maiuri - Screen Writer
John Godfrey Ferdinando Ruffo - Set Designer
Mario Garbuglia - Art Director
Aldo Tonti - Cinematographer
Ann Roth - Costume Designer
Giorgio Desideri - Costume Designer
Giannetto De Rossi - Makeup
Roy Mangano - Sound/Sound Designer
Eros Bacciucchi - Special Effects
Peter Maas - Book Author

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