Though using real names and depicting real events, the film also contained numerous events that were fictionalized. The film departed from the true story of Joseph Valachi, as recounted in the Peter Maas book, in a number of ways. Bronson's opinion of Francis Ford Coppola's gangster epic, although he admired Marlon Brando's performance, was " The Godfather? that was the shittiest movie I've ever seen in my entire life." On The Dick Cavett Show however, he called The Godfather a good picture. Paramount, the film's original distributor, had planned to release the film in February 1973, but the premiere date was moved up to capitalize on the popularity of the similarly-themed film The Godfather. In another scene depicted as occurring in the early 1930s, Valachi, eluding police pursuit, drives a car into the East River just north of the Brooklyn Bridge, where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center are clearly visible against the dawn sky the Towers were only recently completed when the film was released in 1972. The film shows a 1930s night street scene, 27 minutes into the film, in which numerous 1960s model cars are parked and drive by. The film was shot in New York City and at De Laurentiis' studios in Rome. Bronson was also given a three-film contract that guaranteed him $1 million per picture plus a percentage of the gross. He reportedly turned it down at least twice before accepting it when he found out the character got to age from his late teens to early 60s. Producer Dino de Laurentiis had to convince Charles Bronson to take the role of Joe Valachi. Joe Don Baker as Irish Gangster (uncredited).Walter Chiari as Dominick Petrilli ("Gap").Charles Bronson as Joseph "Joe" Valachi.He is upset with having to testify and attempts suicide, but in the end (according to information superimposed on the screen) outlives Genovese, who dies in prison. The mayhem and murder continue to the present, with Valachi shown testifying before a Senate committee. Valachi shoots the victim to put him out of his misery. 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. The Valachi Papers is a 1972 Italian-French crime neo noir directed by Terence Young.
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