Sentences with phrase «italian as gangsters»

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The controversy he refers to is the portrayal of Italian - Americans in the film as gangsters.

Danny Aiello is right at home as owner Louis, a paternal Italian father to all but his own son, reigning over the throng from his corner table like a benevolent lord and maybe underworld gangster.

Director, co-writer and co-producer Kim Jee - woon is one of the country's best filmmakers (of the gangster picture A Bittersweet Life and the outstanding horror film A Tale of Two Sisters, sloppily remade here as The Uninvited) and brings his double - barreled love of Italian - made spaghetti Westerns to the fray.

In 1970s South Boston, FBI Agent John Connolly persuades Irish - American gangster Jimmy Bulger to act as an informant for the FBI in order to eliminate their common enemy: the Italian mob.

It's directed by Robert Siodmak, who made more film noirs than any other director, and it is one of his darkest, a gangster drama seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis, with Victor Mature (in what I believe is his best noir role) a as Lt. Candella, an Italian - American police detective who takes the pursuit of small - time gangster Martin Rome (Richard Conte) personally.

We watch as Connolly hatches a plan to pay back Bulger, who protected him when they were kids, by helping the gangster inform on the Italian mob that's muscling in on his turf — essentially offering up the FBI as Bulger's unwitting private army, waging war on rivals.

A new Italian film about the mafia shows them not as deranged gangsters but sophisticated technocrats.

«Black Mass» tells the true story of Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, who teamed up with the FBI to bring down the Italian mafia and then used the government agency as a shield to protect himself as he took over every type of illegality in the city.