Lucky Luciano

In 1946, the American Justice

gave a present to the Mafia.

Sent back to Italy,

his home country, Salvatore Lucanfa,

alias Charles "Lucky" Luciano,

the king of the New York underworld.

Sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1936,

by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey,

after 9 years he was acquitted

for "special services" rendered

to the U. S. Armed Forces,

by the same Dewey, who had

become the new governor of New York.

Where are you going, godfather'?

- Open the gate!

Go on.

Say hi to my hometown!

I guess we'll go.

Excuse me, I need the bathroom.

You can't know how I feel.

Watch out, I'm a Sicilian, too,

and I can break your ass!

You're an a**hole.

Charlie, don't get pissed.

Freddie's a new guy!

That's Frank Costello,

their prime minister.

And Sox Lanza with the whole fish market.

Sh*t, with a fishnet

we could catch them all!

They're having fun

while we freeze our asses off!

A toast to Charlie's health!

Champagne! Come!

They drink champagne,

and you piss Coca-Cola.

One must always be on the side of power.

Because it's the only way,

one can achieve balance..

In the world we want.

A man to be a man,

must be a man of order.

I'd even say a man of peace.

Five months after

the death of Joe Masseria,

on the night of September 11, 1931,

which became known as

the Night of the Sicilian Vespers,

40 crime bosses were killed from

one end of the United States.

The decapitation strategy of

the old mafia was by Lucky Luciano,

who thus became the "Boss of the Bosses".

Bitter Sicily, the blood

you gave me is all red.

It's been long since I le' as a boy,

so alone and sad

all around the world.

Mama, your death,

has broken my heart.

But my homeland

you should not abandon me.

But should hold me in your arms,

like mama.

Friends, I thank you with all my heart.

I was a free citizen in America.

I'll be a free citizen in Italy also.

Although, I don't plan to stay there long.

Even if I have to get back through Mexico.

I trust you won't make me

wait me another 9 years.

This is $200,000,

if you need more, just say.

What the f***?

Let's not spoil the party.

I'm sorry.

I can't drink.

But you're Italian!

- Yes, I am.

It's OK, he's a paisan!

Yes, I am a paisan. My parents

are from the province of Avellino.

Can I do anything for you?

Your family is in Italy?

I can visit them.

What can I do for you?

Would you like a raise?

Yeah, a promotion..

How can you help me if

you're being deported to Italy?

Don't worry about it.

It's my affairs.

Hopefully.

Excuse me, your Excellency,

I was running a little late.

You know, I've been busy.

He's returned to see his native town.

- Yes.

It's her third son to be

killed within the year.

CANCEMI, GIUSEPPE

Innocent victim by

a cruel and unscrupulous hand..

RUSSO, ANTONIO

Dead by an unholy hand,

leaving a desolate wife..

Here lies GIARDINA, ANTONINO

who sacrificed his life

for the workers' cause and socialism..

The mortal remains of

NICOSIA, CARMELO

Innocent victim of a cruel assassin

after 12 days of cruel suffering..

ANGELO PALIZZOLO

Killed by a cruel and unknown hand..

You're Lucky Luciano'?

Sir, you're not Italian?

Sort of.

- Do you like Naples?

I like the sea.

Go with a spaghetti to the American!

A eet of fishing vessels,

merchant ships and luxury yachts,

armed in Marseille or in Sicily,

cross the Mediterranean

from Tangiers to Beirut,

from Malta to Genoa and Trieste,

under the orders of a Mafia boss.

"A quiet man with sad eyes",

living peacefully in Naples:

Lucky Luciano.

In a few years,

this man created the largest criminal

organization that has ever existed.

Our investigations in Italy,

has shown, despite the skepticism

and indifference from the police,

that the heroin sold by the Mafia

in the United States

comes from pharmaceutical companies

with great reputations in Italy.

We calculated.. that,

from the Schiaparelli company alone,

a pharmaceutical company in Turin,

more than 450 kg of heroin

has been diverted for

the profit of the drug trade.

We've asked the Italian Public

Health Commissioner to intervene,

to check and limit the concession

of sales licenses,

but they did nothing.

- That's not true!

We've arrested Migliardi,

the director of Schiaparelli.

He was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

But you still haven't changed the laws.

And Luciano and his men are continuously

supplied with all the drugs they want!

Medical authorities in my country

state conclusively that heroin,

when used well,

is very beneficial for certain diseases.

Send them here to America.

They'll see how beneficial heroin is!

What can you in Italy know?

Let's look at the facts.

The chemical industry in Italy..

Has real political power over

the government of Rome.

Explain something to us.

Why do all those mafiosi,

all those certified "gangsters",

can go anywhere they want with

passports and have gun permits?

And why, in the Italian police records,

they're registered as people

of good political, civil

and moral character?

Why don't you ask this to your

Immigration or Justice departments?

These "gangsters", these mafiosi,

who sent them back to Italy?

You, Americans. And by the hundreds.

You called them "undesirables".

And these undesirables came to Sicily

on the heels of the Allied forces.

And then they've moved up through the

Italian peninsula: Naples, Milan, Genoa.

Always in the wake of

the United States army.

Ask your generals why

they've appointed mayors

of the first liberated towns

in Sicily such men as

Calogero Vizzini and Genco Russo.

Men known and feared by all

as mafia bosses.

Ask your Colonel Charles Poletti

why, when he was governor in Naples,

did he choose as his partner

and right arm, Vito Genovese?

You knew better than we that Genovese

was a notorious Mafia boss!

Quiet! Salute the colonel!

Hey, Jim, I don't like your friend.

Bring me another one tomorrow, okay?

My boyfriend'll black my eyes

if I see another American.

Don't worry, they're always drunk,

and after.. nothing.

What I'd give for corned beef!

We've made one mistake in Sicily, dear

Genovese. We were too soft. - You're right!

The Colonel wants

the cooperation of all citizens

to end this scandal of the black market.

Severe penalties will be meted

out to the offenders.

A severe and strict rationing

will ensure with fairness

the aids that come from the

American people to the Italian people.

Viva America!

Viva Italia!

This makes 5 tons of wheat..

And 1000 drums of olive oil.

Look, "the bearer is authorized to

transport, buy and sell oil and wheat. "

"Not to be requisitioned. "

- Then we'll need aat least twenty trucks.

You name it, we got it.

But watch out for those drivers.

They're all black, they're all thieves.

They'll suck the gas out of your tanks.

Sonofabitch!

Here's a pass for the gasoline.

No name or limit. All that you want.

Fine.

We'd better unload at San Giuseppe,

the MPs went to Resina last night.

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