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Even projects in the public domain, Jarvis agonises over discussing. Like The Alto Knights, which sees him play Vincent Gigante, a hit-man working for De Niro’s real-life mobster Vito Genovese.
Spring has arrived, and the flowers will soon be blooming at Deep Cut Gardens in Middletown. And for that, we can thank the notorious mobster, Vito Genovese. You got a problem with that? Genovese ...
Vito Genovese built a terraced Italian garden and a replica of the Mt. Vesuvius volcano when he lived in Middletown. Deep Cut Gardens is run by the Monmouth County Parks Department and open to the ...
Vito Genovese just before he died in prison in 1969. Genovese got 15 years in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. There, he gave longtime trusted soldier Joe Valachi the infamous kiss of death.
Barry Levinson's The Alto Knights movie seems to be nothing more than a bizarrely boring showcase for Robert De Niro playing mafioso frenemies.
The Oscar-winning actor plays both Frank Costello and Vito Genovese in Barry Levinson’s lackluster Mafia movie, inspired by real life.
Frank is enjoying his life so thoroughly that he doesn’t register Vito’s irritation until he survives a shooting by one of Vito’s foot soldiers, a hulking brute by the name of Vincent Gigante.
Review: ‘Alto Knights’ wastes a lot of cinematic talent Historical crime saga “The Alto Knights’ stumbles over several blunders, including double-casting Robert De Niro.
In Taxi Driver, Robert De Niro famously asked his reflection, “You talkin’ to me?”, and in The Alto Knights, he is, playing two separate mob bosses who repeatedly engage in gimmicky ...
The master plays both Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, infusing the two crime bosses with distinctive personalities.
De Niro seems to be having fun playing both Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, but the movie around his double performance is a chore to watch.