Boss of Bosses Page #6

Synopsis: This film follows the life of Paul Castellano, a mobster who rose in the ranks of New York City's Gambino crime family with the help of his considerable intelligence until he was picked to become the reigning don of the family in the 1970s. Flush with his power, he charts a new course for the mob with the emphasis on a low profile approach exploiting quiet crime business like labour union control while promising to deal with murderous severity anyone he catches dealing with drugs. Yet for all the sureness of his position's authority, his own indiscretions in his personal life provide complications of his own. With this being combined with the growing restiveness of his underling's discomfort with his quiet approach and the FBI agents who are determined to bring him down, then the stage is set for a tragic fall.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Year:
2001
93 min
246 Views


"Carlo knew you had the vision".

Just give everybody else

"a chance to catch up to you".

"That's all I'm saying".

I'll try.

Look, I'm sorry

if I got upset and everything.

Forget it.

I'll look into this thing

with my crew and all...

...but we should call a meeting

of all the families.

Try to straighten all this out, huh?

I appreciate your advice...

...but a meeting now...

...is too dangerous.

I think it's the right move.

I'll think about it.

Promise me you won't move on John...

...unless you know for sure.

You have my word.

"I'll look into this thing"...

This is it.

..."we should call a meeting"

"of all the families".

Try to straighten all this out, huh?

You hear? "All the families,"

with Big Paul presiding.

It could be bigger than Apalachin.

If it happens, it better be soon.

Our warrants are running out.

Maybe if we back off, they'll feel

safe enough to call a meeting.

I don't believe in luck.

We close in tighter.

Sooner or later, Big Paulie's

gonna have to call a meeting.

Then we own them all.

We'll have the biggest RICO

in history.

Six in the morning.

This better be good.

Indictments, but not against us.

Filed last night in Nassau County

Fed District Court.

Angelo Ruggerio and Gene Gotti.

Both arrested, they're in MCC,

conspiracy to traffic in narcotics.

Our lawyers say the feds got it

all on tape from phone taps.

This ain't Neil. It's all Gotti.

Gene, his brother,

and Ruggerio, his street dog.

Neil's in the hospital dying,

and now this.

They didn't arrest Gotti.

No evidence against him personally.

Don't take this personally.

This is happening in all the families.

Neil was right.

Neil was right.

I'll call

a commission meeting tomorrow.

I want the heads

"of the families there".

- Commission.

"-But the feebs"...

..."they'll be watching like hawks".

Am I the boss?

Am I head of this commission

or what, huh?

Greedy kids. They're crapping

on the richest feast in history.

Where will I recruit guys?

You tell me.

Harvard? Yale?

I wish I could.

I'm stuck trying to make morons

into legitimate people.

Tommy, find a place.

"Not a hotel or restaurant".

"-We got crash-houses here".

- Listen!

"Near Cameron and Oberlin".

"Tell them we guarantee security".

Cameron and Oberlin, that's out here.

- Other end of the island.

- Let me see.

Go ahead. Go.

- Here comes Tommy.

- We don't tail him.

We know where he's going.

- What about the van?

- We change it.

Let's go. This thing

could come together fast.

Here. Here we are,

Cameron and Oberlin.

IKeep your eyes open.

Come on, where are you, Tommy?

I think we have something.

There's Tommy's car.

Let's go around the corner.

Now we do what we do best.

We wait.

Join the FBI.

Visit amazing places.

Meet exotic people.

- You know what's weird?

- What?

We're gonna get him.

And I know it's all gonna be over.

Easy, Joe.

Don't start feeling sorry for him.

He's one of the bad guys.

But he's not the worst.

At least he had some class...

...stuff, something.

What about the guy

who'll take his place?

We'll get him too.

Andy! Up!

Andy, Salerno.

Salerno. Get the camera.

- Camera, come on!

- All right.

Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno.

Boss of the Genovese family.

Got him.

Who's up here?

Bingo. This is the jackpot.

Look at this.

Tony "Ducks" Corallo,

boss of the Lucchese Family.

Carmine "The Snake" Persico...

...and Boss Gerry Langella

for the Colombos.

This is happening.

It's amazing.

It's like wild animals in Africa.

My, oh, my.

RICO. Racketeering Influenced

Corrupt Organizations Act.

They just show up at the same place

and boom, gotcha!

Criminal conspiracy.

We'll get them all.

Bingo.

"We all love our families"...

...and we're building a great empire.

Yet in each family there's

young guys, impatient and greedy...

...who deal on the side behind our

backs and some of us know it.

This cannot go on.

These guys got to be punished.

Drugs will destroy this thing of ours.

It'll take away our white-collar

business that's drowning us in money.

Listen, the construction money

is out of this world.

You was right all the way.

But these Young Turks,

they sneak around.

Right. And some of us look the other

way because the money's so good.

With all due respect. Your family

has the newest drug indictments.

You're right.

And when I leave here today...

...you'll see what it means

when I say you deal, you die.

I expect no less from all of you.

The time has come to get rid

of the renegades in this family.

You guys knew the law.

I'm responsible for my crew's actions.

John, not for nothing,

but you knew what we were doing.

- I didn't know nothing.

- Yes, you did.

- You knew!

- Johnny, let him go.

You knew what we were doing.

I never asked.

The reason you stayed in

is because the money was good.

That's not important anymore!

- Shut up.

- Get out of here.

Johnny, what are we gonna do?

How we gonna fix this thing?

Neil's dying.

Once he goes, Big Paulie

will come down and whack us all.

We're dead meat, all of us.

What'll we do?

Well, well.

Look what the dog brought in.

- What's this?

- Constantino Paul Castellano...

...on federal indictment, Class A

under the RICO conspiracy law.

- I have a warrant for your arrest.

- RICO?

- Racketeering, Influenced...

- I know.

Paul?

Piney called me.

It's all right. Come here.

What is it? What's going on?

I have to go with these guys.

It'll be all right.

It'll be okay.

Piney, take her to Connie's.

- It's all right. It's nothing.

- Yeah, sure.

It's nothing. Okay?

I'll go with you.

No, you stay there.

Oh, my God.

Paulie?

Paulie?

Oh, my God.

In my own home, you shame me.

Just doing our jobs, Mr. Castellano.

- That makes it right?

- Let's not talk about "right."

Normally we would've cuffed you.

Look.

The media vultures come to feed.

The gang's all here.

- Carmine, will they get Paul?

- Talk to my lawyer.

Did you think this would happen?

Any comment?

You!

Come on, let's go.

Are you taking me through that?

No, let's go to the service bay

in the back.

I thought they took your hearts out

when you graduated the FBI academy.

Donnie Brasco.

No idea what you mean.

We heard the tapes,

you in the kitchen with Neil.

We know you called off the contract.

Tapes? What tapes?

You bugged my home?

You bugged my house?

My home, where I live?

Where my family...

I don't believe that.

That's too low, even for you guys.

You bugged my home.

A place of business, fine,

a social club, but not a man's home.

I don't believe this.

What else you hear?

Me and Gloria in the bedroom?

You whack off and giggle?

We try not to listen

to personal stuff.

It's not right, you bug a man's home.

It's not right.

Mr. Castellano...

...I admit I've waited

a long time for this.

You've been arrested

on the charge of conspiracy...

...under the RICO act.

As have several of your colleagues.

You could spend the rest

of your natural life in prison.

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