Lucky Luciano
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00:01:40He was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1936
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00:01:48After nine years in prison, he was awarded
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00:01:57who became governor of the state of New York.
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00:03:21Where do you think you're going, Mack?
00:03:23I'm taking these boys to see Luchano. I'm from the Bureau of Immigration.
00:03:26I don't give a damn where you're from. Nobody gets out the door. Get back.
00:03:28Come on, boys.
00:03:30Hey, take it easy with him, crazy.
00:03:33Crazy.
00:03:37No pictures, no pictures.
00:03:45How about a couple of pictures, Goomba, huh?
00:03:48Look, I'm telling you for your own good.
00:03:50Go home. I haven't eaten in a while.
00:03:53What do you mean?
00:03:56Remember, boys, it wasn't the Bureau of Immigration that kept you off the boat.
00:04:00Yeah, we know who runs the waterfront.
00:04:11Mr. Luchano just told the United States government to drop dead.
00:04:15What?
00:04:19What?
00:04:32Yeah!
00:04:34Happy birthday!
00:04:36Happy birthday to you!
00:04:38I love you, baby.
00:04:56I love you, too.
00:05:08I love you, too.
00:05:10I love you, too.
00:05:12I love you, too.
00:05:37Excuse me, I have to go to the toilet.
00:05:42Excuse me.
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00:07:00Where were you?
00:07:02I was washing my hands.
00:07:04Take pictures of everyone.
00:07:06Where were you?
00:07:08Washing my hands.
00:07:10I ran back.
00:07:12But there was nobody around.
00:07:14And my old friend, Joe Masserino,
00:07:16was there.
00:07:18We were eating.
00:07:20He just said some spaghetti and clams.
00:07:28He was like my father.
00:07:32I loved him like a father.
00:07:40I loved him like a father.
00:08:10Hey, Syracuse, look.
00:08:12Here comes Albert Anastasio
00:08:14from the Justice Department.
00:08:16He is responsible for at least 50 executions,
00:08:18but there's no evidence.
00:08:40I'm running out of film.
00:08:42Who is this guy?
00:08:44Maya Lansky, you kidding?
00:08:46Lansky, the brain.
00:08:48What's a yid like that doing with all those guineas,
00:08:50Syracuse?
00:08:52I'm a guinea, too, and I'll break your ass.
00:08:54How do you like this guy?
00:08:56Hey, none of that stuff.
00:08:58What's a stransky?
00:09:00It's a toy.
00:09:02All right, load up.
00:09:04Let's get some footage of these guys.
00:09:06Stransky.
00:09:10Here comes Frank Costello,
00:09:12the prime minister,
00:09:14with Sox Lanza.
00:09:16Boss of the Fulton Fish Market?
00:09:20Christ, what a party.
00:09:22Huh, Charlie?
00:09:24Wouldn't it be beautiful if we could pinch those bastards right now?
00:09:26Here we are, freezing our balls off
00:09:28while they're out there having a good time.
00:09:31Hey, Charlie?
00:09:55Hey, Charlie.
00:09:57They're going to be delighted.
00:09:59You're gonna be drinking champagne and you're pissing in a coke bottle.
00:10:02I'll be a son of a bitch.
00:10:29I'll be a son of a bitch.
00:10:49Five months after the execution of Joe Masseria,
00:10:52on the night of September 11th, 1931,
00:10:55known as the Sicilian Vespers Night,
00:10:5840 Bosses were killed from one head to the other in the United States.
00:11:03The strategist of the extermination of the old mafia was Lucky Luciano,
00:11:07who thus became the Boss of the Bosses.
00:11:25On the night of September 11th, 1931,
00:11:30known as the Sicilian Vespers Night,
00:11:3540 Bosses were killed from one head to the other in the United States.
00:11:40The strategist of the extermination of the old mafia was Lucky Luciano,
00:11:45who thus became the Boss of the Bosses.
00:11:48The strategist of the extermination of the old mafia was Lucky Luciano,
00:11:53who thus became the Boss of the Bosses.
00:12:23I'm going back to Messina.
00:12:26And please, Gualdri, don't make me wait another nine years.
00:12:46This is $1,200, and then we're at your disposal.
00:12:49What the fuck is this?
00:12:51What do you want?
00:12:52It's okay, Alberto.
00:12:58Come in. Come in.
00:13:08I'm sorry, I'm on duty. I can't drink.
00:13:12What are you doing?
00:13:13I'm sorry. I can't drink.
00:13:16But you're Italian.
00:13:18Yes, I'm Italian.
00:13:19I thought you were a peasant.
00:13:21Yes, I'm a peasant.
00:13:23My parents were born in Altavilla, Erpina, in the province of Apulia.
00:13:27I could do something for you.
00:13:30My family is in Italy. I can say hello to them.
00:13:33I could do something for you.
00:13:35Do you want a promotion?
00:13:36Yes, a promotion.
00:13:41But they're deporting you to Italy.
00:13:47Don't worry.
00:13:49I got some connections in Washington.
00:13:52Let's hope so.
00:14:12I'm sorry.
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00:14:45I'm sorry.
00:15:10I'm sorry, Your Excellency.
00:15:12It's a bit late. I'm on my own.
00:15:14You know, you had something to do.
00:15:23Come and see the village where I was born.
00:15:25I'm sorry.
00:15:42My son!
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00:15:58He's the third child. He doesn't have a mother.
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00:19:06Oh, stay in Napalis
00:19:13Do you like marinara spaghetti?
00:19:16He is not Italian, he is American?
00:19:19Kind of
00:19:20Do you like Naples?
00:19:25I like the sea
00:19:28Go with a marinara spaghetti
00:19:35A fleet of fishing boats, freighters and other vessels sailing out of Marseilles and Sicily
00:19:41sweep the Mediterranean from Tangiers to Beirut and from Malta to Genoa to Trieste under the
00:19:50orders of a top mafioso, a calm man with sad eyes who lives undisturbed in Naples, Bucky
00:19:59Luciano. In a few years he has created the largest international criminal organization that ever
00:20:12existed. Our investigations in Italy carried out in spite of the skepticism and indifference of
00:20:18the Italian police prove that the mafia drug pushers in this country receive most of their
00:20:25heroin from respectable pharmaceutical distributors in Italy. We calculate that just
00:20:35from the Schiaparelli company of Turin alone 770 pounds of heroin have been turned over to the
00:20:45illicit drug market. Now we have asked the Italian Commission for Public Health to intervene, stop
00:20:52the illegal sale of licenses and you stop heroin, but they have done nothing. We arrested Miliardi,
00:21:00the director of the Schiaparelli company, he was sentenced to 11 years in the penitentiary. But
00:21:06you haven't changed a single thing and Luciano's men go merrily on buying from these firms all the
00:21:12drugs they want. Sir, our scientists and the Italian medical authorities do insist that heroin,
00:21:18properly a medicinal course, in many diseases can be quite helpful. Send these scientists of
00:21:24yours to America, we'll show them how helpful heroin is. What do you know about Italy, huh?
00:21:29Let's face facts. The big chemical industries in Italy have very powerful political connections
00:21:50in Rome. And how can you explain this fact? The fact that all these mafiosi, these out-and-out
00:22:00gangsters, are supplied with passports and permits to carry weapons. And in the Italian police records,
00:22:10why are they described as persons of good political, civil and moral character? How really? Why don't
00:22:18you ask those questions to the United States Department of Justice? These gangsters, these
00:22:23mafiosi, who shipped them to us? You Americans, by the hundreds. You had a name for them,
00:22:31undesirable aliens. So they landed in Sicily, behind the Allied armies. And then they moved
00:22:41up the Italian peninsula, to Naples, to Milan, to Genoa, following the army of the United States.
00:22:47Ask your generals why did they appoint, as mayors in Sicilian towns, people like Calogero Vizzini,
00:22:56like Genco Russo, who were known and feared as mafia bosses. Ask your colonel superior in Naples
00:23:05at the time, why he chose as his collaborator, as his right-hand man, Vito Genovese. Now, you all
00:23:12knew, as well as we did, that Vito Genovese was a big gangster.
00:23:43Creatures! Come on, come on, don't fall in line.
00:23:57You see, you've got to understand the psychology of the Italian people. To win the war, I had to
00:24:20convince them that the war is over. That's why I had the bomb shelters and the sirens removed,
00:24:25to show them that the war is finished here. You understand? It's a matter of psychology.
00:24:55But you see, that's not all. We have to keep their bellies filled. I hear the people are saying,
00:25:09And they are right. After all, why are we fighting this war? Because we have everything,
00:25:20and they have nothing. But we give them cigarettes, food, gas, the works, all the way down the line.
00:25:27After all, that's what freedom is all about. Am I right? Yes, sir.
00:25:38Thank you very much.
00:26:08Hey, Jim, I don't like the friend you brought me. Stay, I'll bring you another friend.
00:26:39I fell in love with him half a year ago, when I saw him dancing with an American soldier.
00:26:43Don't worry, he's always drunk. He can't do anything afterwards.
00:27:09Meet the wretched apple stew.
00:27:35Well, here's one.
00:27:38You see, man, this is one hell of a responsibility. All this stuff coming into Naples has got to the people,
00:27:43not the crooks and the speculators.
00:27:51We made one big mistake in Sicily. We were too damn soft. Right.
00:27:56Now, enough of this crap. I don't care who it is. Princes, cardinals, everybody.
00:28:02You tell them, Vito. I want the people to cooperate and stop the black market.
00:28:06And if they don't, I will show numbers. Vito? Am I right, General?
00:28:13Well, if you don't speak up, they won't listen. So now, you tell them.
00:28:17Stop! Stop!
00:28:24Attention, please. The colonel wants everybody to know that in order to cut out stealing in the black market,
00:28:30the penalty for the violations are going to have to be very, very strict.
00:28:34The colonel wants the cooperation of all the citizens to stop this black market.
00:28:42Very strict penalties are set for the transgressors.
00:28:48Now, we're going to cut out all this injustice.
00:28:54And we're going to have rationing so that the poor people of this city finally get a break.
00:29:18One, two, one, two, three, four.
00:29:22One, two, one, two, three, four.
00:29:43That makes five tons of wheat and a thousand gallons of olive oil.
00:29:48And listen, the mayor is authorized to transport and buy and sell oil and wheat.
00:29:52And look, not to be requisitioned.
00:29:54That's a lot of stuff. We'll be needing around a dozen trucks.
00:29:57Trucks? You name it, we got it. But watch out for those drivers.
00:30:01They're all black. Stoop to pulling in and drink the gas out of the tank.
00:30:04I'd sell it in the black market.
00:30:18Here's the pass for the gasoline. No name, no amounts. Everything we want.
00:30:22Okay.
00:30:23It's better we unload the trucks outside and out.
00:30:26There's too many MPs inside the city.
00:30:30Okay.
00:30:48Why ain't that mine?
00:31:18Come on.
00:31:49After you're unloaded, you burn all the trucks. We leave no traces.
00:31:53Right. Okay.
00:32:19Mine! Mine!
00:32:22Okay?
00:32:23Okay!
00:32:24All right.
00:32:29Let's go!
00:32:48Stop!
00:33:08Stop!
00:33:09Stop!
00:33:18Stop!
00:33:25You like that, huh?
00:33:26Say thank you.
00:33:27Yeah, me too.
00:33:34You gotta throw in a pack or two, the deal's off.
00:33:37Okay, Kumba. Go ahead, take it.
00:33:40I got a brand new Buick back in New York.
00:33:48Hey, hey!
00:33:49What are you doing?
00:33:53You burn all the trucks.
00:34:19What are you doing?
00:34:24What are you doing?
00:34:25I'm just trying to get a job.
00:34:27I don't know if this is worth it.
00:34:32You got me.
00:34:33Shane, get out of here!
00:34:35Cheers!
00:34:59Hello, Colonel.
00:35:00Hi!
00:35:01That's some boat, huh?
00:35:05That's the first packet in Italy.
00:35:07Really?
00:35:08You want to try her out?
00:35:10You mean it's yours?
00:35:11Here, come on. Let's go for a ride.
00:35:14All right!
00:35:23Okay, look out!
00:35:24Here we go!
00:35:35Come on!
00:35:46What do you want?
00:35:58We gotta have a new city magistrate
00:36:00and a new president of the Bank of Naples.
00:36:02Of course.
00:36:03And we got a lot of applications, you know.
00:36:05Everybody wants to get into the act.
00:36:07But don't worry.
00:36:09I made up a list of anti-fascists
00:36:11and real friends of Americans
00:36:13that I personally guarantee.
00:36:15Good.
00:36:16Oh, by the way, I need more passes
00:36:18to bring in oil, gas, and everything else.
00:36:21But the real problem
00:36:23is the power plant to run the industry.
00:36:25And those who want it are just gonna have to pay for it.
00:36:28I mean, you know, this is in Russia.
00:36:30We just don't give it away.
00:36:31Am I right, Colonel?
00:36:32Right.
00:36:35You like the car?
00:36:37Keep it.
00:36:54And by the way,
00:36:55who gave Lucky Luciano his credentials
00:36:58as a useful person?
00:37:01His documents?
00:37:02He's a useful man who had, quote,
00:37:05rendered services to the armed forces
00:37:07of the United States, unquote.
00:37:09You released him from jail?
00:37:12You practically gave him a medal?
00:37:14Don't forget all the help he gave you
00:37:16through the Marshall Plan.
00:37:26There is also socialist morphine
00:37:28that comes to the United States.
00:37:31Yugoslavia is very good
00:37:33at stopping Italian smugglers
00:37:35the moment their fishing boats
00:37:37enter your territorial waters.
00:37:40Why don't you notice
00:37:41certain giant whaling ships
00:37:43like the one belonging to
00:37:45Senor Rosario Mancino of Palermo?
00:37:49It lands on the Dalmatian coast every week.
00:37:59Sit down, Charlie.
00:38:13It's no use trying to put
00:38:14all the blame on the Italians.
00:38:16The ballgame isn't in Rome or Naples.
00:38:20It's in New York and Washington.
00:38:23What do you mean, Commissioner?
00:38:25They've been putting a big campaign
00:38:26on here against us.
00:38:29And you've been chasing
00:38:30Luciano around Italy.
00:38:32They've been trying to discredit
00:38:33the Narcotics Bureau.
00:38:36They say we're a bunch of paranoids
00:38:38and megalomaniacs
00:38:39and that we arrest people without proof
00:38:43and that we invented
00:38:44the whole Luciano story
00:38:47for political reasons.
00:38:49I'll tell you what was invented.
00:38:51That fairy tale about Luciano
00:38:52winning the war in Sicily.
00:38:54After what came out
00:38:55in the Kefauver investigation,
00:38:56you'd think that people
00:38:57would know the score.
00:39:00Now the Democrats are saying
00:39:02that Mr. Dewey let loose
00:39:03a flow of drugs into this country
00:39:06when he got Luciano sprung from jail.
00:39:09Mr. Dewey doesn't like any mention
00:39:11of the Luciano matter
00:39:12and he's fighting back.
00:39:14And with the Republicans
00:39:15in Washington again in power,
00:39:17he's got some pretty big friends
00:39:20there, the Attorney General for one
00:39:22and the Secretary of the Treasury
00:39:25to drop a couple of names.
00:39:27Who have we got?
00:39:28Each other, Charlie.
00:39:30So be careful.
00:39:32Mr. Dewey is forming
00:39:33his own commission to,
00:39:35and I quote,
00:39:36investigate Lucky Luciano, unquote.
00:39:40He's trying to prove
00:39:41that everything we told
00:39:43the Kefauver committee was a lie
00:39:47and that we have no real evidence
00:39:50against Luciano in Italy.
00:39:52So now Lucky's the hero
00:39:53and we're the villains.
00:39:54Who's going to buy that crap?
00:39:56Judges.
00:39:57The same judges
00:39:58who were still on the bench.
00:40:00The ones who Frank Costello
00:40:01had nominated
00:40:02when he and Maya Lansky
00:40:04and Luciano were still pulling wires
00:40:07at Tammany Hall.
00:40:08But now the Republicans
00:40:09are in office.
00:40:10The Mafia makes no distinction
00:40:12about parties.
00:40:13They have no party.
00:40:14They're on the side
00:40:15of whoever is in power.
00:40:17In Truman days,
00:40:18they were packing Truman
00:40:19and Dewey was fighting them.
00:40:21Now Dewey has the power
00:40:23and Kefauver is fighting them.
00:40:25And where are we?
00:40:27In the middle.
00:40:28And if we're not careful,
00:40:30we'll be getting it from both sides.
00:40:32So what do I do now?
00:40:35Well,
00:40:37you keep on chasing Luciano.
00:40:40Dewey will keep on chasing us
00:40:43and Kefauver
00:40:44will keep on chasing Dewey.
00:40:47And when all this
00:40:48running around is over,
00:40:50everybody will find themselves
00:40:52back at the same
00:40:53goddamn place
00:40:55where he started.
00:40:59Oh, Charlie, Charlie.
00:41:01Not everyone.
00:41:02Not Mr. Charles
00:41:03Lucky Luciano.
00:41:14Get me the Giannini file, please.
00:41:16Right away, sir.
00:41:38Thanks, that'll be all.
00:41:39Yes, sir.
00:41:43Thank you.
00:41:59Signori, ecco a voi Lucky Luciano.
00:42:06Soniuca, dicite, che volete sapere?
00:42:08Dove è stato tutto questo tempo?
00:42:09E' vero che è scappato dall'Italia.
00:42:10Chi le ha dato il passaporto?
00:42:12E' vero che l'hanno arrestato?
00:42:13Che facevate?
00:42:14Piano, piano, pianissimo.
00:42:15Una alla volta, per carità .
00:42:17E' vero che le case del gioco di Cuba
00:42:18stavano in mano vostra?
00:42:19Colleghi, andiamo a sederci.
00:42:20Vi ho preparato un tavolo.
00:42:22Ecco, sedete.
00:42:26Signor Lucania, in questi giorni all'ONU
00:42:28si è parlato di lei.
00:42:30Si è parlato di droga.
00:42:31A parlare di droga
00:42:32sono sempre chiedi
00:42:33di un narcotic bureau.
00:42:35E' quel Leslinger.
00:42:37Anslinger.
00:42:38Henry Anslinger.
00:42:40Il capo del narcotic bureau.
00:42:43Eslinger.
00:42:45Il due tedesco, protestante e poliziotto.
00:42:51Se un racketeer viene mitrato,
00:42:53la colpa è di Luciano.
00:42:55Se la regina d'Inghilterra
00:42:57si sparte da suo marito,
00:42:58la colpa è di Luciano.
00:43:00Se ci stanno parti,
00:43:01la gente si diverte.
00:43:03Ci deve stare per forza,
00:43:04come dicite in italiano,
00:43:05stupefacente.
00:43:06Eh, chiaro.
00:43:07E chi le porta?
00:43:08Luciano.
00:43:09Ma lo che Luciano è droga
00:43:10per tutti ormai è la stessa cosa.
00:43:14Io non la prendo.
00:43:19Già , ma lo scandalo
00:43:20ne parlano tutti i giornali,
00:43:21signor Lucania.
00:43:23Ne hanno parlato al congresso,
00:43:25al senato degli Stati Uniti.
00:43:27E' tutta politica.
00:43:29All'America si doveva far
00:43:30un presidente.
00:43:31Giulio è il repubblicano
00:43:32ed era un candidato più forte.
00:43:34E allora i democratici
00:43:36ricominciarono con la storia
00:43:38di lui a concedermi la grazia.
00:43:40La grazia ve l'ha data
00:43:41perché avete aiutato
00:43:42l'esercito degli Stati Uniti.
00:43:43E' vero che nel 43
00:43:44vi hanno lanciato con il paracaduto
00:43:45per preparare lo sbarco alleato.
00:43:47Mai visto la Sicilia dall'alto,
00:43:48mai passato con l'appareggio.
00:43:50Io ci vado ogni tanto
00:43:51con i rosca
00:43:52sulla Palermo,
00:43:53dove tengo la fabbrica di dolci.
00:43:55Già , i cioccolatini ripieni.
00:43:57I confetti.
00:43:59E pigliono un po' che sono,
00:44:01come a capri.
00:44:02E il contrabbando.
00:44:03Da quando siete tornati voi,
00:44:05la Sicilia è diventata anche
00:44:06la centrale del contrabbando
00:44:07delle sigarette.
00:44:09Guardate,
00:44:10io fumo sigarette di monopolio.
00:44:13E credo di essere il solo a Napoli
00:44:14che non fuma sigarette di contrabbando.
00:44:16Pure voi, guaglio, che fumate?
00:44:18Contro di me non ce sono prove.
00:44:22Se ci fosse appena un inch di prove,
00:44:24io finirei in galera
00:44:25nel giro di un'ora.
00:44:26Perché non domandano
00:44:27la mia estradizione
00:44:28negli Stati Uniti d'America?
00:44:30Io sarei disposto a tornarci,
00:44:31anche con la manetta,
00:44:33e a difendermi personalmente.
00:44:35Anche con le manette.
00:44:36Volete proprio tornare in America?
00:44:38L'Italia non vi piace?
00:44:39Ci siete nati?
00:44:40Io sono cresciuto all'America
00:44:41da piccolo ragazzo.
00:44:43Sono vissuto all'America
00:44:44a trent'anni,
00:44:45da uomo libero.
00:44:46Fui condannato ingiustamente,
00:44:48prove fasse,
00:44:49testimoni corrotti,
00:44:50malefemmine.
00:44:51Non rispettarono le regole.
00:44:53Ma ca, l'Italia,
00:44:56è tutta una persecuzione.
00:44:59Non ci stanno regole.
00:45:01Ca,
00:45:02manco sapono che è la cauzione.
00:45:04Avevate già delle condanne, però?
00:45:06Penalti, smurdi.
00:45:08Perché non mi fermava ai semafori
00:45:09quando trasportava whisky.
00:45:11Era l'epoca del proibizionismo.
00:45:12Il proibizionismo è un'altra storia
00:45:14di Gesuiti come Esti.
00:45:17A gente voleva bevere.
00:45:19E qualcuno glielo toffeva portare da bere.
00:45:22Se non ci pensavano altri,
00:45:24come facivo il governo?
00:45:26Eh, avete svolto una funzione sociale.
00:45:29Eh, abbiamo svolto una funzione sociale.
00:45:32Ed è perciò che ci siamo schierati
00:45:33tutte dalla parte del Roosevelt.
00:45:35E tu?
00:45:36Aveva capito che bisognava
00:45:37cambiare molte cose.
00:45:39E perciò a Chicago,
00:45:40alla convenzione,
00:45:41gli abbiamo dato il voto.
00:45:42Vi piace la politica, allora?
00:45:44E in Italia non vi piace?
00:45:46Gli sto in un paese povero.
00:45:49Quale politica si pote facere
00:45:51senza gli affari?
00:45:53Perché, signor Lucania,
00:45:54i suoi affari in Italia vanno male?
00:45:56Solo con la fabbrica di dolci a Palermo
00:45:58ho già perduto 10.000 dollari.
00:46:00E come fate a vivere?
00:46:02Spendete una quantità di soldi
00:46:04giocati alle corse,
00:46:05somma addirittura favolose.
00:46:07Io ebbe già modo di spiegarlo
00:46:09a suo tempo alla finanza,
00:46:10che ricevo qualche piccolo aiuto
00:46:12dagli amici di New York.
00:46:14E anche la macchina,
00:46:16è un regalo degli amici di New York.
00:46:18E non è un vero, che sogno ricco.
00:46:20E tutte le spese per mantenere
00:46:21il vostro tenore di vita
00:46:22qui a Napoli, le guardie del corpo?
00:46:23Ma quali guardie del corpo?
00:46:25La polizia non mi perde d'occhio un minuto.
00:46:27E certo, vi spostate avanti e indietro,
00:46:29Roma, Milano.
00:46:30Mi hanno dato messino il passaporto.
00:46:31Ci hai andato anche all'estero.
00:46:32Ah, scusate.
00:46:33Io sogno un nuovo leader.
00:46:35Il governo americano
00:46:36mi ha concesso il perdono.
00:46:39Comunque, quando vai a Capri,
00:46:41si trova anche il capo dell'Interpol.
00:46:43Ci pensa lui alla mia security.
00:46:45Ma perché, secondo voi,
00:46:46un personaggio come Lucky Luciano,
00:46:49in America lo possono lasciare così,
00:46:50a piede libero?
00:46:52Io posso ritornare all'America
00:46:53a fronte alta.
00:46:55E là devo ritornare.
00:46:59E per quando moro,
00:47:01mi sono già aprontato
00:47:02la tomba di famiglia a Brogli.
00:47:16Benvenuti a Genova, Contessa.
00:47:29Benvenuti a Genova.
00:47:59Benvenuti a Genova.
00:48:16Come in.
00:48:20Come on, Charlie, you fucking idiot.
00:48:22Come on.
00:48:25Come on in, sit down.
00:48:27We'll have a talk.
00:48:31Where the fuck am I gonna sit here?
00:48:35You know the trouble with you is,
00:48:37you're a stupid cop.
00:48:38You should be like me.
00:48:39I can travel anywhere in the world.
00:48:40I've got money.
00:48:41Here, look, look.
00:48:42Look at the ring.
00:48:44You know what you can do with that?
00:48:46To lamenting culo.
00:48:49I know where I like to shove it.
00:48:52You see this?
00:48:53That's a real countess.
00:48:55I bet you never fucked a real countess.
00:48:57Countess is never a dime a dozen.
00:49:05Puttana?
00:49:06You call me a puttana?
00:49:08You stupid bastards.
00:49:10Half-witted whop.
00:49:11Jeden zlodziej, a drugi rzezimieszek.
00:49:16You two talk like a slob.
00:49:19And take your hat off, gentlemen.
00:49:22And you know something?
00:49:23What?
00:49:24Fuck yourself.
00:49:31She's just like my sister, no?
00:49:38Where the hell did you find that bitch?
00:49:40She may be a bitch, but she's a great fucker.
00:49:45You know something, Charlie?
00:49:47I like you.
00:49:48You and I, we ought to go into business, eh?
00:49:54I get you started, and then afterwards,
00:49:56I promise you, you'll be thankful.
00:49:59Yes, well, why not like you?
00:50:02In prison or in a gutter full of holes?
00:50:05No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:50:07You're a good man.
00:50:08You're a good man.
00:50:09You're a good man.
00:50:10You're a good man.
00:50:11You're a good man.
00:50:12In a gutter full of holes.
00:50:13No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:50:15That doesn't happen to men.
00:50:17Of course not, because we're protecting you.
00:50:20But you better watch your step.
00:50:22We know you're pushing that white stuff.
00:50:24You're a big connection.
00:50:25We also know who you've been talking to.
00:50:31You sure?
00:50:33You sure you know who I'm talking to?
00:50:35Where else would I get the information?
00:50:37Salute.
00:50:38In the meantime, you're working your own deals,
00:50:39and what do you give us?
00:50:40Crumps.
00:50:42That's better than nothing, no?
00:50:48Listen, I've heard enough of your crap
00:50:50about the Turks and the Arabs.
00:50:51We know all about that.
00:50:53But when I want to talk to you about Lucky Lou Chandler,
00:50:55what do you do?
00:50:56You choke up.
00:50:57What do you mean, choke up?
00:50:58Who the fuck chokes up?
00:50:59I didn't choke up.
00:51:00Who's the one that told you he got $50,000 in Naples?
00:51:03Me.
00:51:04$4,000 fine, for Christ's sake.
00:51:06And the guy walks out of the courtroom laughing.
00:51:08Big deal.
00:51:09So fuck the big deal shit.
00:51:10Look, leave me alone.
00:51:11Leave me alone.
00:51:12Let me operate my own way in Italy and France,
00:51:14and I promise you I'll come up with something big.
00:51:16You listen to me, you hear?
00:51:18I know you're pushing penicillin.
00:51:20I don't give a damn if the Italians don't care.
00:51:22But you're messing around with counterfeit money,
00:51:24and it's going to screw up the Italian tourist business,
00:51:26you hear?
00:51:27Yeah, I hear.
00:51:28And one final thing.
00:51:29What?
00:51:30You know goddamn well what I want from you.
00:51:31What?
00:51:32Lucky Lou Chandler.
00:51:39Okay.
00:51:52So I'll do that.
00:51:56Tell me where I can find Luciano.
00:51:58Yes.
00:51:59He's there.
00:52:00There he is.
00:52:01There he is.
00:52:02There he is.
00:52:21Hey, Jay, this is Mr. Gianni.
00:52:23Hello.
00:52:24You want to rest up a little?
00:52:25No.
00:52:26We go for a ride, eh?
00:52:27We go.
00:52:28No momento.
00:52:30You don't know how to speak Italian, eh?
00:52:32I'm going to take you to see the ruins at Pompeii.
00:52:55This is a dirty city, you know.
00:52:58We ought to organize the garbage men here like we did in New York.
00:53:02You remember that Tony Stroller?
00:53:11Over 40 years ago, you were born somewhere in here.
00:53:16This place stinks, Lucky.
00:53:18You know what you should do?
00:53:19I don't know how you live here.
00:53:20You should come with me.
00:53:21We could go to Paris or the Riviera.
00:53:28Hey, come on, come on.
00:53:32Hey, I talked to our friends in Marseille.
00:53:35What about the penicillin deal?
00:53:36Yes or no?
00:53:49Hey, honey.
00:53:50Come and have a look at that.
00:53:55Hey, look at this.
00:53:58It looks like me, eh?
00:54:00Are you sure?
00:54:03Yes, it was showing the way to go into the brothel house.
00:54:07No, whore house.
00:54:08I want to say.
00:54:09Always.
00:54:10Yes, it is the short way to go.
00:54:11Come to this side.
00:54:21Yes, here we are.
00:54:22Will you come in, please?
00:54:24I am waiting for you.
00:54:26See this?
00:54:27Now we are in the whore house.
00:54:30The oldest loving house.
00:54:33These people was very intelligent.
00:54:36Because when come here and didn't know the language,
00:54:39without talking, looking at the frescoes,
00:54:42went in the room which he wants.
00:54:44The first one, for example,
00:54:46is showing the condo style,
00:54:48the woman on the man.
00:54:52The second one is Spanish procession.
00:54:56What is Spanish procession?
00:54:57The shoulder of the man, see?
00:54:59On the top, yes.
00:55:00No, the legs.
00:55:01The legs of the woman around the shoulder, idiot.
00:55:05The third one is dog fashion.
00:55:12In front of you, there is a cashier.
00:55:19In front of you here, there is the 69.
00:55:23Another one is against nature.
00:55:26See, you have no comment.
00:55:27You can't see with your eyes.
00:55:29Yes, you can't see with your eyes.
00:55:31This is not a fresco, see?
00:55:33Maybe it's very interesting.
00:55:37But why does he have two?
00:55:39Because one used for the day,
00:55:43another one was used for the night.
00:55:45Oh, boy should be so lucky, no?
00:55:52Look at that beautiful garden.
00:55:54They got a fresh air of the garden.
00:55:59Beautiful looms all around of the garden.
00:56:02How long did he relax?
00:56:04Maybe they got relaxed for an hour and a half,
00:56:07two hours or less or more.
00:56:10The wild slaves were walking in the garden for days.
00:56:14How many slaves they had?
00:56:15Maybe twenty.
00:56:16Twenty?
00:56:17Less or more.
00:56:18That's living, eh?
00:56:20Are you sure you were a master?
00:56:23Now we are going to reach another house.
00:56:26Go for this road at the end of the corridor on the right.
00:56:30You can see a pleasure loom
00:56:32with beautiful erotic frescoes very well designed.
00:56:38Lucky, what about my fare?
00:56:42You know, Gin, I don't like to travel.
00:56:47Even in America, always in the district.
00:56:50Sometimes in Florida, in Vienna, for vacation.
00:56:56Always after a trip.
00:57:03Even here, always in Naples.
00:57:07Sometimes in Sicily.
00:57:10In my country.
00:57:14Or in Milan.
00:57:16Peccata.
00:57:17We can make a lot of money in Marseille.
00:57:24Whoever comes to find me, comes for fun.
00:57:30I don't like to travel.
00:57:32I like to travel for fun.
00:57:37Here you don't come for work.
00:57:42Here you come for tourists.
00:58:02I don't like to travel.
00:58:04I like to travel for fun.
00:58:06I like to travel for fun.
00:58:08I like to travel for fun.
00:58:10I like to travel for fun.
00:58:12I like to travel for fun.
00:58:14I like to travel for fun.
00:58:16I like to travel for fun.
00:58:18I like to travel for fun.
00:58:20I like to travel for fun.
00:58:22I like to travel for fun.
00:58:24I like to travel for fun.
00:58:26I like to travel for fun.
00:58:28I like to travel for fun.
00:58:30I like to travel for fun.
00:58:50I'm sorry sir, but we have an arrest warrant for you.
00:58:53You must be kidding.
00:58:55No, you're being arrested on a very specific charge.
00:58:59False money?
00:59:01Cut off it.
00:59:02You can arrest me. I'm an American citizen.
00:59:04This is Italy.
00:59:06I don't give a fuck what it is. I'm not going to tell you.
00:59:08Sit down, please.
00:59:10Sit down.
00:59:12Please, sit down.
00:59:30There are six of us.
00:59:32We have to do what we have to do,
00:59:34all in the same place.
00:59:38We can't stand the smell of day and night.
00:59:44There's no room for us to move.
00:59:46We can't sleep at the same time.
00:59:49We have to stand up all the time
00:59:51to keep an eye on the mice.
00:59:53They're hungry and big enough to eat us.
01:00:00The chimneys in the bed are as big as cockroaches.
01:00:04I have to pay to have a little water
01:00:07and a little bedding to sleep on.
01:00:10It costs me $50
01:00:12just to get you to this bed.
01:00:15Your arms, etc., etc.
01:00:23In Italy, if they smell, they go to hell.
01:00:27Even jails are bad.
01:00:34But you know, even in Italy you can do big business.
01:00:39I've tried it with Gin.
01:00:42But what a man like you wants...
01:00:46Listen to me.
01:00:48If you want to see the opera in San Carlo,
01:00:51the horses in Agnano,
01:00:53if you want to have fun,
01:00:55I don't care.
01:00:57I don't do business.
01:01:15Here.
01:01:16This is another letter from Gin
01:01:18in which he talks about you,
01:01:20Joe Pici and Frank Alaci.
01:01:22This letter can ruin you forever.
01:01:25I have to give it to Siracusa,
01:01:27not you.
01:01:28You have to trust me.
01:01:30Take it.
01:01:38You have to give it to Siracusa.
01:01:42And you have to give it to him.
01:01:52You have to give it to him.
01:02:22Hey, you want a lift?
01:02:27Gin.
01:02:28Hey, Gin.
01:02:29Is everything okay?
01:02:37Everything's perfect.
01:02:38You let me rot in the goddamn jail for a year.
01:02:42Come on, Gin, get in.
01:02:43I want to talk to you.
01:02:44Come on.
01:02:45Get in.
01:02:52Come on.
01:03:00I got you out of jail without a trial.
01:03:03If you stood before a judge,
01:03:04you'd never get out.
01:03:06As far as you're concerned,
01:03:07I could have died in there.
01:03:09You could have got me out
01:03:10any time you wanted to.
01:03:11You got to get one thing
01:03:12through your thick head, you know.
01:03:14You were in the hands
01:03:15of the Italian police.
01:03:16They don't take orders from me,
01:03:18an American cop.
01:03:19So I had to invent a story
01:03:20to get you out.
01:03:21Who the fuck invented
01:03:22the story to get me in?
01:03:23It's not my fault.
01:03:25You're the guy that insists
01:03:26on fooling around
01:03:27with the phony money.
01:03:28Who told him at the border
01:03:29I had the phony dollars?
01:03:30It was probably one of your good friends
01:03:31that tipped him off.
01:03:32Maybe it was even Lucky Luciano.
01:03:33No, no, no, no.
01:03:34Lucky doesn't talk.
01:03:35Lucky's a mob guy.
01:03:36He's not a cop.
01:03:38What about you?
01:03:39You're the mobster.
01:03:40You're not a cop.
01:03:41You're nothing.
01:03:42You're nothing but a stool pigeon.
01:03:43Okay, so I'm a stool pigeon.
01:03:44I'm not a mobster.
01:03:45I'm not a cop.
01:03:46So why don't you leave me alone?
01:03:52You want this passport?
01:03:54You got to earn it.
01:03:55How?
01:03:56Make a little trip to New York.
01:03:58We'll pay the expenses.
01:04:00New York?
01:04:01That's right.
01:04:02For what?
01:04:04So you can testify
01:04:05to the big case.
01:04:06We need your evidence.
01:04:08No.
01:04:09No, no, no, no, no.
01:04:10You stop the car.
01:04:11No, no, no, no, no.
01:04:12I get out of here.
01:04:13I get out of here.
01:04:14I get out of here.
01:04:15I get out of here.
01:04:16I get out of here.
01:04:17I get out of here.
01:04:18I get out of here.
01:04:19I get out of here.
01:04:21Use your head, Gene.
01:04:23If you stay here without an Italian passport,
01:04:25they'll throw you out as undesirable.
01:04:27If I go to New York, they'll kill me.
01:04:29Damn it, I'm trying to save your ass,
01:04:31but you've been talking too much.
01:04:33How could I talk?
01:04:34I was in prison for a year.
01:04:35Who did I have to talk to?
01:04:36You also have a bad habit of writing letters.
01:04:38No, the only one I ever wrote to was you.
01:04:48What did you do with the letters?
01:04:49I got them.
01:04:50But I told you not to trust that countess, didn't I?
01:04:58No.
01:05:00No, no, no, no.
01:05:02I know what you're trying to do.
01:05:03You're trying to fight me, so I'll do anything.
01:05:06And I'm not going to New York City.
01:05:07I'm going to stay right here in Italy.
01:05:10And I say you're not going to stay right here,
01:05:12because I've had all the bullshit from you that I can take.
01:05:15You got that?
01:05:16So here's your passport and ticket to the States.
01:05:19In one hour, the plane takes off and you're going to be on it.
01:05:22Jack?
01:05:29Charlie.
01:05:35I don't know who's the bigger shit,
01:05:37you or Luciano.
01:05:38I don't know.
01:05:45Around the beginning of September 1952,
01:05:49Gene Giannini was back from a trip to Italy.
01:05:53He'd done ten months in jail over there.
01:05:56Tony Bender sent for me
01:05:58for the biggest contract I ever got from Cosa Nostra.
01:06:03He took me out to dinner at Rocco's in Thompson Street,
01:06:07down in the village, Greenwich Village.
01:06:09We talked about one thing and another for a while,
01:06:12then he got down to business.
01:06:14Gene's been talking, he told me, to the narcotics bureau.
01:06:18Vito Genovese got the word straight from Lucky himself.
01:06:21Lucky says Gene's been talking to the narcotics guys for years.
01:06:25He's got to be unloaded.
01:06:27Him and anybody with him.
01:06:30I telephoned Giannini
01:06:31and I told him to meet me at a bar at the Casbah.
01:06:36I make up an excuse, he owed me some money.
01:06:41I went to meet him and I took Joe Pagano with me.
01:06:44Pagano was a new guy.
01:06:46Gene wouldn't have recognized him,
01:06:48but Pagano was a genius with a gun.
01:06:54Giannini told me he was broke,
01:06:57Giannini told me he was broke and couldn't pay me.
01:07:00Skip it, I said.
01:07:02Let's just have some fun.
01:07:05I had a girl come from the bar.
01:07:07We had some drinks together,
01:07:09then I went out and left him with the girl.
01:07:19The next night I took Pagano and another couple of the boys
01:07:23to see the gambling place where Gene Giannini was working.
01:07:33I explained the plan to them.
01:07:35One of the boys would wait in the car
01:07:38by the sidewalk a block away.
01:07:40The other two would wait for Gene at the door.
01:07:44I wish it, I wish it.
01:07:46We'll see you later.
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01:09:27I told them especially to throw the guns away
01:09:30right afterwards into the East River.
01:09:33I got in touch with Bender and told him
01:09:35to tell Vito Genovese Gene Giannini
01:09:38wouldn't give him any more trouble with the narcotics bureau.
01:09:41Lucky Luciano didn't have nothing to worry.
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01:11:28Do you want to play a game with me?
01:11:31Thank you, but I prefer to play alone.
01:11:35Stop!
01:11:42Stop!
01:11:50Stop!
01:11:54Stop!
01:11:56Stop!
01:12:01Stop!
01:12:06Stop!
01:12:11Stop!
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01:13:05I'll tell you what Lucky Luciano was doing
01:13:07at that racetrack in the Neanderthals.
01:13:09That's his office, you understand that?
01:13:11He controls a dope racket from there.
01:13:16Lucky is the brains.
01:13:19Lucky is the king sitting on the throne.
01:13:22The big Kilo connections from New York
01:13:24contacted him directly at the racetrack in Naples.
01:13:27He then introduces him to the Sicilian mafiosi,
01:13:30the Corsican suppliers.
01:13:33But he's never there when the delivery is made.
01:13:36He waits until later.
01:13:38He gets his cut from both the buyers and the suppliers.
01:13:42The payments are deposited to Lucky's account
01:13:46in a Swiss-numbered bank account.
01:13:52It doesn't mean a goddamn thing.
01:13:54It's got no connection with the heroin traffic.
01:13:56It's just a case of a Neapolitan guapo
01:13:59trying to make a big shot at Lucky's expense, that's all.
01:14:09This man hardly ever leaves his house.
01:14:12He goes out in the morning, takes his car for a ride,
01:14:14then he goes for a ride in the races.
01:14:16Now, after what you've told us,
01:14:18we'll try not to send him anymore.
01:14:21He's nice to everyone,
01:14:22he does charity work,
01:14:24he's nice, he's more of a scoundrel than a journalist,
01:14:26and sometimes he's even a cop.
01:14:28If you then talk about his past
01:14:30with a police officer,
01:14:31you hear him answer, as happened to me,
01:14:33yes, yes, we know he was convicted
01:14:36of prostitution.
01:14:39But what kind of crime would that be?
01:14:41If a woman prostitutes herself,
01:14:43that means she's a whore.
01:14:45And we can't arrest a man for a crime
01:14:47that happened 20 years ago.
01:14:49If he commits a crime in Italy,
01:14:51certainly, if he really has a brain behind it all,
01:14:54you have to admit he's an extraordinary man of intelligence.
01:14:57One thing's for sure,
01:14:58since Lucky Luciano came back to Italy,
01:15:00the mafia controls all the drug trafficking,
01:15:03which currently amounts to
01:15:05several hundred million dollars.
01:15:08So why can't we arrest Lucky Luciano?
01:15:33But there are hundreds and thousands of good Sicilians
01:15:36who have to pay for his sins.
01:15:39That's why I hate the mafia.
01:15:42That's why I won't give Lucky Luciano a moment of peace.
01:16:04From the acts of the parliamentary commission
01:16:07of inquiry on the phenomenon of the mafia in Sicily.
01:16:11In October 1957,
01:16:14a series of high-level meetings
01:16:16took place in the city of Palermo
01:16:19between American and Sicilian mafia leaders.
01:16:22The meeting was chaired by Lucky Luciano.
01:16:26The purpose of the meetings
01:16:28was to promote Sicily
01:16:31as a transit area for drug trafficking
01:16:34in North America.
01:16:44Giuseppe Bonanno, alias Joe Banana,
01:16:47born in Sicily,
01:16:49American citizen,
01:16:51head of the New York family,
01:16:53came to Palermo to agree
01:16:55on a unitary program
01:16:57for our cause and the Sicilian mafia
01:17:00and to prepare at the Albergo delle Palme
01:17:03the mafia meeting
01:17:05that would take place a month later
01:17:07in the mountains of Appalachin,
01:17:09in the state of New York.
01:17:16The head of the mafia in Sicily,
01:17:18Giuseppe Genco Russo,
01:17:20participates in the convention of Palermo
01:17:22to guarantee the respect of the pacts
01:17:24in the ranks of the traffickers of the island.
01:17:33After nine years,
01:17:34seventeen alleged mafia bosses
01:17:37were brought before the judges
01:17:39to answer the accusation of association to crime,
01:17:42but only five were convicted.
01:17:45Camillo Galante,
01:17:47Giuseppe Scandariato,
01:17:49Giuseppe Genco Russo,
01:17:51John Bonventre,
01:17:53Joe Banano.
01:17:56I would like to propose a toast
01:17:58to our good friend Lucky Luciano.
01:18:07Although you're far from home,
01:18:09you're always in our heart.
01:18:23Cheers!
01:18:43You made me come back from Italy just for this?
01:18:46You refused to answer.
01:18:48You have been asking me the same questions
01:18:50for the last five hours
01:18:52and I've given you the same answers.
01:18:54Am I here as a witness or a defendant?
01:18:56Governor Dewey appointed this commission
01:18:58to investigate Luciano's parole.
01:19:00Aren't you an expert on Luciano?
01:19:03I am a Bureau of Narcotics agent,
01:19:06assigned to investigate the drug traffic in Europe.
01:19:09Everything I know about Luciano
01:19:11is in the reports I submit regularly
01:19:14to my commissioner, Harry J. Anslinger.
01:19:17Ask him for those reports in Washington.
01:19:20You testified in front of the Kefauver committee
01:19:22saying that Luciano was king of narcotics.
01:19:25I said if he was not the king,
01:19:28Luciano was at least a member of the royal family.
01:19:32And the evidence? Where is the evidence?
01:19:35I've already told you.
01:19:37It's difficult to get direct evidence against Luciano.
01:19:41But behind every pinch we make,
01:19:43Joe Pici, Frank Calacci, Frank Coppola,
01:19:47we find his shadow.
01:19:49And every thug we arrest, with his hand in a bag of heroin,
01:19:53turns out to be one of Luciano's criminal associates.
01:19:56What's that mean, criminal associates?
01:19:59It means that every time we trace these men,
01:20:02they're connected to one head, Luciano.
01:20:05In the Joe Biondo case...
01:20:07In the Biondo case, it was only a matter of acetic anhydride.
01:20:10Only?
01:20:12Acetic anhydride is used to convert morphine into heroin.
01:20:16Luciano was never prosecuted by the Italian courts on narcotics charges.
01:20:20That proves they never had anything against him.
01:20:23Now it only proves that his accomplices don't want to give his name,
01:20:26maybe out of reverence or out of fear.
01:20:29But our informants have always told us
01:20:31Luciano was a source of supply, even Giannini.
01:20:34Giannini is dead, and it's still not clear why he died.
01:20:37If he'd stayed in Italy, he'd still be alive.
01:20:40Why did you force him to come back to America?
01:20:43I did not force him.
01:20:45Giannini bought his retained ticket and went with him to the airport.
01:20:48Are you trying to accuse me of Giannini's murder?
01:20:51We must investigate everything,
01:20:53and it does no harm now and then for a policeman
01:20:55to see how it feels sitting on the other side of the desk.
01:20:58Yes, and it could be a good experience, too, for a judge, even for a governor.
01:21:02Why don't we start by investigating the real reasons
01:21:05Luciano was released from jail and sent back to Italy?
01:21:08I've got the papers here.
01:21:10And the report of your colleague, Agent White, as well.
01:21:13As usual, you base everything on confidential whispers
01:21:16and insinuations from gangsters who end up murdered.
01:21:20White's informant is dead, but Governor Dewey's assistants,
01:21:23the ones that went to see Luciano in jail, they're still alive.
01:21:26They can tell you what they told me.
01:21:28And that is?
01:21:29That lucky Luciano had no information
01:21:31that could possibly help the United States Navy.
01:21:33All he had to offer was a fat check
01:21:35for Governor Dewey's political campaign.
01:21:37You want to end up on trial for perjury?
01:21:40You don't scare me. I tell you the truth.
01:21:42And I don't give a damn about politics.
01:21:44And you don't call it politics when you blame Luciano
01:21:47for your failure and the failure of the Bureau of Narcotics
01:21:50to put a stop to this drug traffic?
01:21:52It's easy to make accusations.
01:21:54I'm morally convinced that Luciano is the boss of the heroin racket
01:21:57and we'll get him yet.
01:21:59Give us the evidence.
01:22:00If he breaks the law, we'll ask for his extradition.
01:22:03Since the Italian courts won't arrest him,
01:22:05they should be happy to send him back to the United States
01:22:07to face his accusers.
01:22:09He was in the United States, in jail.
01:22:11He should have been kept there.
01:22:41Why didn't you come in? Didn't you hear the mass?
01:22:44I heard it from here.
01:22:48I would have caused a distraction inside.
01:22:51Did you understand or not that you have to follow the priest?
01:22:54Otherwise, it's not worth it.
01:22:55It's as if I had seen it.
01:23:11No, no, no, no.
01:23:41I'm sorry.
01:24:12Don Ciccio, you love me.
01:24:16You never ask me to know things.
01:24:22And for me, after death you say
01:24:27that you need people like you.
01:24:30After death you say
01:24:34that you need people like you.
01:24:47Listen, Lucky.
01:24:48With the benefits and hospital expenses,
01:24:50I'm in trouble.
01:24:53Some friends would make me import some German cars.
01:24:57They would tie me up in the bar.
01:24:59They would say,
01:25:00one of them would put 500 liras in it,
01:25:02and I would get 1,000, or even 5,000.
01:25:04What do you think?
01:25:07Don Ciccio, I'm used to the American way.
01:25:15I would have kept the cars.
01:25:25It's not for you.
01:25:30Hey, hey, come here.
01:25:47How do you like that?
01:25:48Here it is, a first time,
01:25:49I'm face to face with Lucky Luciano,
01:25:51and now they're sending me back to the States
01:25:53for another assignment.
01:25:54Why, Charlie? What's the reason?
01:25:56Well, it looks like the big shots in Washington
01:25:58are afraid I'm digging too deep.
01:26:04Isn't that disgusting?
01:26:06Those American sailors asking that son of a bitch
01:26:09mobster for autographs.
01:26:59Who is it?
01:27:00Squadra Mobile, open up.
01:27:18Is Lucania in San Patro?
01:27:20She's inside, in bed.
01:27:24Tell her we need to talk to her.
01:27:26Make yourself at home.
01:27:56Wait!
01:28:12Good evening.
01:28:13We need to carry out a search.
01:28:18Don Ciccio, is Otto with you?
01:28:20Yes, he's one of our agents.
01:28:23Can I offer you a whiskey?
01:28:25Would you like a drink?
01:28:27No, we don't drink at work.
01:28:32Then look for it.
01:28:36Well, if you need anything, I'll find it for you.
01:28:49What's this?
01:28:51I have to tell you.
01:29:03What's your name?
01:29:05I'm Marcello Schioppa.
01:29:08Well, you're a nice guy.
01:29:50What's your name?
01:30:17I'll take this telegram.
01:30:20You want to take it?
01:30:22Yes, but you have to follow us too.
01:30:24The finance captain has to interrogate you.
01:30:27Like the Stor?
01:30:30Yes, like the Stor.
01:30:40So, can you tell us what this telegram means?
01:30:45I've been telling him all night.
01:30:49What else do I have to say?
01:30:51Let's repeat it.
01:31:00So, let's read the text again.
01:31:06I say that I, in Spain,
01:31:08know Martin Gosch, who is American,
01:31:10but lives in Madrid,
01:31:12and with whom I had a relationship for the writing of a script
01:31:15for the production of a film about my life.
01:31:17Gosch telegraphed me that he would arrive today in Naples,
01:31:19at the Capodichino airport,
01:31:21to bring me the script of the film.
01:31:23He said that the script was for my film,
01:31:25but it was my intention to withdraw it from circulation.
01:31:28Is that so?
01:31:32Well, then tell us everything you did yesterday,
01:31:35after you received the telegram.
01:31:41You know,
01:31:43all day I've been spying on myself.
01:31:46It's better if you tell us.
01:31:48Let's start over.
01:32:00On the 25th of the current month,
01:32:03around 1pm,
01:32:04I arrived at a restaurant in California,
01:32:06at Via Santa Lucia,
01:32:07and I had lunch with a friend of mine,
01:32:09Giorgio Giuseppe.
01:32:10Giorgio lives here in Naples,
01:32:11where he recently came back,
01:32:12because he ran away from Cuba,
01:32:13where he was doing the croupier.
01:32:14While we were having lunch,
01:32:15my friend Francesco Scimone came to the restaurant,
01:32:17who is the owner of a restaurant in Taormina.
01:32:21The so-called Cico,
01:32:22he was coming back from Spain,
01:32:24where he and his wife Rubino,
01:32:26from Miami,
01:32:27had an affair.
01:32:30Your friends travel a lot, don't they?
01:32:32And look at the combination.
01:32:35The tourism boom between the United States,
01:32:37Naples and Sicily,
01:32:39started when you settled here in Naples.
01:32:43And now there is a passion for travelling.
01:32:47From Cuba,
01:32:48from Taormina,
01:32:49from Miami,
01:32:50everyone goes through Spain,
01:32:52and then they meet you in Naples,
01:32:55and then they leave for New York.
01:32:57That's how it is.
01:33:01If you say so.
01:33:04Around 2pm,
01:33:06I left Cico in California,
01:33:08who was getting ready to leave
01:33:09in a car for Sicily,
01:33:10and I went to D'Agnano for the races.
01:33:12At the racetrack,
01:33:14I met my friend Eboli Pasquale,
01:33:18a.k.a. Pat Rajan.
01:33:21Eboli is from Cisano,
01:33:24nearby.
01:33:27And every now and then they come to Naples.
01:33:30It takes half an hour.
01:33:32And then he also goes to Spain
01:33:34to be a cinematographer.
01:33:36That's why they call him Pat Rajan,
01:33:38as if he were an actor.
01:33:40Siracusa always says
01:33:41that the tour of the amazing people
01:33:42is like the cinema.
01:33:44Siracusa is a snitch.
01:33:46Siracusa loves you.
01:33:48He always talks about you.
01:33:53Siracusa is a snitch.
01:33:56I can tell you that.
01:33:58Siracusa looks like you.
01:34:00He talks like you,
01:34:01and he behaves like you.
01:34:03Between you and him,
01:34:04it's been ten years
01:34:05since we lost peace in Italy.
01:34:07Siracusa is Sicilian,
01:34:08just like me.
01:34:11The head of the police
01:34:13in Palermo,
01:34:16Scaglione,
01:34:19the head of the police,
01:34:22all Sicilians.
01:34:24And I,
01:34:25like everyone else,
01:34:27I'm calm
01:34:28and I don't bother anyone.
01:34:31It's just you,
01:34:32who has never thought
01:34:33about anything.
01:34:34He's a scoundrel.
01:34:35He's got his head in the clouds.
01:34:36But he was right
01:34:37about the Canepa brothers.
01:34:39We caught them red-handed.
01:34:41And we'll arrest
01:34:42those who are in Spain.
01:34:45And sooner or later,
01:34:46in the network,
01:34:47you'll be there too.
01:34:49It's all a set-up
01:34:50by Charlie Siracusa.
01:34:52The Canepa brothers
01:34:53were arrested three months earlier.
01:34:56Then the judge of Rome
01:34:58released them.
01:34:59I don't know.
01:35:03Anyway,
01:35:04I'm not involved.
01:35:05But if your partner,
01:35:07Antonino Sorci,
01:35:09was involved,
01:35:10we have the documents.
01:35:12They had a financial company
01:35:13together in Rome.
01:35:16They want proof.
01:35:17Proof.
01:35:18To make a company,
01:35:19you need a notary.
01:35:21And we found him,
01:35:22the notary.
01:35:24The same one you needed
01:35:25in Palermo
01:35:26to buy the Orlean park
01:35:27together with Sorci
01:35:28and Mancino.
01:35:30Is it a crime
01:35:31to buy a little land?
01:35:34More than 160,000 square meters.
01:35:37It's all buildable land
01:35:39with the licenses
01:35:40of the municipality of Palermo.
01:35:42If the municipality of Palermo
01:35:43gives the licenses,
01:35:44it means it's regular.
01:35:46They also bought
01:35:47those of the university.
01:35:49And also some
01:35:50minister of democracy.
01:35:53Things have changed,
01:35:54Charlie Siracusa.
01:35:56If you still hope
01:35:57for a political recovery,
01:35:59you have great illusions.
01:36:01But what politics?
01:36:03Here in Naples,
01:36:04I don't even know
01:36:05the head of the municipal guards.
01:36:08In America,
01:36:09you do politics.
01:36:11But you do it
01:36:12face to face
01:36:13with President Roosevelt.
01:36:18But let's leave
01:36:19President Roosevelt
01:36:21and go back
01:36:22to your friend
01:36:24Eboli Pasquale.
01:36:26Eboli, in New York,
01:36:27has a barber shop.
01:36:29Together with his brother,
01:36:30he also has another business
01:36:31of which I don't remember
01:36:32the species at the moment.
01:36:36Do you remember
01:36:37what kind of business
01:36:38it is?
01:36:41No.
01:36:42No, huh?
01:36:45Eboli Pasquale
01:36:46came to talk to me
01:36:47about an important
01:36:48production company
01:36:49in Formica
01:36:50to try to open
01:36:51a series of shops
01:36:52in the main Italian cities.
01:36:53With Cico Scimone,
01:36:54we talked about opening
01:36:55a shop in Rome
01:36:56on behalf of Cogno and Girubino
01:36:57who came back from Miami
01:36:58with the profits
01:36:59of their business.
01:37:02I say,
01:37:03at this moment,
01:37:04I don't remember
01:37:05the species.
01:37:09And let's see
01:37:10if I can help you,
01:37:11huh?
01:37:13Is it because of
01:37:14a factory like the one
01:37:15you put in Palermo
01:37:16in 1946
01:37:17with Caló and Girovizzini?
01:37:18Don Caló,
01:37:19who was disassembled
01:37:20in one night
01:37:21and disappeared
01:37:22with three tons
01:37:23like the one
01:37:24in Nic e Gentile,
01:37:25huh?
01:37:26Or the one
01:37:27in Formaggio,
01:37:28like the one
01:37:29in Carlos Marcello
01:37:30in Tunisia.
01:37:31Or like the tomatoes
01:37:32in Mamma Mia
01:37:33in Porta Company
01:37:34in Giuseppe Profaci
01:37:35in New York.
01:37:36Or maybe
01:37:37the one
01:37:38in a broth factory,
01:37:39a vegetable broth
01:37:40for export,
01:37:41like the one
01:37:42in Francoppo
01:37:43in Pomezia.
01:37:44From Pomezia
01:37:45he went to
01:37:46Castellamare del Golfo,
01:37:47a box full of ruins.
01:37:54You take me for
01:37:55Fesso Lache Luciano.
01:37:56We arrested
01:37:5740 people
01:37:58in Italy
01:37:59and in America.
01:38:00We surprised them
01:38:01with our hands
01:38:02in their pockets,
01:38:03loaded with dollars
01:38:04and drugs.
01:38:05All your friends,
01:38:06only three,
01:38:07fled to Spain
01:38:08because of
01:38:09the American judges
01:38:10who imprisoned them
01:38:11with caution,
01:38:12another good find
01:38:13of the law
01:38:14of their country.
01:38:15And since they've been
01:38:16in Spain,
01:38:17you receive
01:38:18phone calls
01:38:19and telegrams
01:38:20every day
01:38:21from Madrid
01:38:22to the restaurant
01:38:23to talk about
01:38:24ants,
01:38:25to talk about
01:38:26salt,
01:38:27or horses.
01:38:29What's wrong?
01:38:32What's wrong?
01:38:33Do you feel bad?
01:38:40Do you want a coffee?
01:38:44I don't drink coffee.
01:38:46I don't smoke anymore.
01:38:47Give me a glass of water,
01:38:48please.
01:38:49Bring him a glass of water.
01:39:19What's wrong?
01:39:35Your friends
01:39:36left you drawings,
01:39:37didn't they?
01:39:39No,
01:39:40they weren't my friends.
01:39:42They were the cops,
01:39:43the New York police.
01:39:46They're not the scars,
01:39:47anyway.
01:39:49I get a lot of them.
01:39:55I had two heart attacks.
01:40:09Can I go to the office?
01:40:12I'll go with you.
01:40:19Okay.
01:40:49Okay.
01:41:19Okay.
01:41:50Once,
01:41:51in America,
01:41:54he gave
01:41:55an address,
01:41:58and the police
01:41:59found a heroin box.
01:42:03That time,
01:42:04he said what I knew.
01:42:06Today,
01:42:07I know nothing.
01:42:19You can talk to me.
01:42:23I have my ideas about you.
01:42:26And they're different
01:42:27from those of Syracuse.
01:42:31Does it suit you?
01:42:33It suits you
01:42:34to be a career.
01:42:36It suits you
01:42:38and Estinge,
01:42:39Syracuse,
01:42:40the generals,
01:42:41a police chief.
01:42:43And it suits politics
01:42:45to distract people
01:42:47who know nothing
01:42:49and will never understand anything.
01:42:52To politics,
01:42:53when it suits you,
01:42:56you need criminals
01:42:57and, as you say,
01:42:59mafiosi.
01:43:03I'm sorry,
01:43:04I can't help you.
01:43:16I'm sorry,
01:43:17I can't help you.
01:43:19I'm sorry.
01:43:20I can't help you.
01:43:30I'll go with you.
01:43:31Okay.
01:43:32Okay.
01:43:37Make him sign this document
01:43:38and then
01:43:39take him to the airport
01:43:40to pick up that American.
01:43:41And then what do we do?
01:43:42We arrest them both
01:43:43and bring them here?
01:43:44If you find the drugs.
01:43:45If not,
01:43:46you kidnap the copy of the film
01:43:47and send it to Syracuse.
01:43:57Ah,
01:43:58finally.
01:43:59You're such a thing.
01:44:00I thought you were dead.
01:44:02Look at me.
01:44:15I'm sorry.
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01:46:41I'm sorry.
01:46:43That will do it.
01:46:47It's courtesy.
01:46:48Go on.
01:46:50Police officer.
01:46:51Police officer.
01:46:52Who is this?
01:46:53Call the doctor!
01:46:55Who that?
01:47:12So, what do I do now?
01:47:17Well, you keep on chasing Luciano,
01:47:22Dewey will keep on chasing us,
01:47:25and Kefauver will keep on chasing Dewey.
01:47:29And when all this running around is over,
01:47:32everybody will find himself back at the same goddamn place where he started.
01:47:38Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:47:41Oh, Charlie, Charlie.
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