Lucky Luciano Page #2

Burn the trucks afterward.

Leave no trace.

Hey, Mike, you gotta throw in the

Packard too, or the deal's off.

Take it. I gotta go back soon to

New York anyway. - OK, clear it!

Hey, what about these blacks?

Sell them with all their clothes.

Don't you have any shame in front

of the Americans? Get out of here!

Do you see this pretty blonde?

It's the first Packard to come to Italy.

Really?

- Want to try it?

Why, is it yours?

- Get on, let's go for a ride.

We must appoint a new magistrate and

a president for the Naples Bank. - Sure!

There's a lot of people with backings who

want to get into the act, but don't worry.

I made up a list of true antifascists,

real friends of America that

I personally guarantee.

Oh, by the way, I need more passes

to bring in oil, gas and everything else.

But the real problem

is to give electricity to the industries.

But those who want it

just gotta pay for it, right'?

This ain't Russia. We don't give it away.

Right, colonel? - Right!

You like the car'?

Keep it.

And by the way, tell us why you gave

Lucky Luciano his credentials

as a "useful" person.

From this document,

it appears that he's had such credentials

"for services rendered to the

armed forces of the United States. "

You released him from jail.

You could've also give him a medal!

We also gave you the aids of

the Marshall Plan, though!

Also from socialist countries

the morphine arrives to the U. S.

Yugoslavia, for one, is very good at

stopping small boats of Italian fishermen

the moment they enter its

territorial waters. But when..

But nobody notices certain

"whaling ships", like that owned by..

Mr. Rosario Mancino, from Palermo,

which lands on the Dalmation

coast every week!

Sit down, Charlie.

It's no use trying to put all

of the blame on the Italians.

This game isn't played in Rome or Naples..

But in New York and Washington.

What do you mean, Mr. Anslinger?

There's a campaign against us.

While you were chasing

Luciano around Italy,

here they're trying to discredit us

of the Narcotics Bureau.

They say we're paranoid, megalomaniacs,

who arrest people without proof.

And that we invented the whole story of

Luciano and of drug for political reasons.

What was invented is the absurd hogwash

on Luciano who won the war in Sicily.

But after the Kefauver investigation,

the Americans should know better.

Now the democrats are saying Dewey

allowed the drug ow into the U. S.

When he sprung Luciano from jail.

Dewey doesn't like any mention of the

Luciano matter and he's fighting back.

And with the republicans

back in power, Dewey now

has some very powerful friends.

The Attorney General, for one,

and.. and the Secretary of the Treasury,

to drop a few names.

And who do we have?

- Each other, Charlie.

So be careful.

Dewey is forming his own commission

to "investigate" Lucky Luciano.

So they say.

He's trying instead to prove that what

we told the Kefauver committee was a lie.

And that we have no real evidence

against Luciano in Italy.

So, Lucky's a war hero and we're

the villains. Who'll buy that crap?

The judges! The same judges

who are still on the bench.

The ones that Frank Costello

made appoint when he, Meyer Lasky

and Luciano were still

pulling strings in New York.

But now the republicans are in office.

The mafia makes no distinctions

between parties. They have no party.

They're always on the side of power.

During Truman's time they backed Truman,

and Dewey was fighting them.

Now Dewey has the power

and Kefauver is fighting them.

And where are we?

In the middle. And if we're not careful,

we'll be getting it from both sides.

So what do I do?

You keep on chasing Luciano..

And Dewey will keep on chasing us..

And Kefauver will chase after Dewey.

And when all of this

running around is over,

everyone will find himself back at the same

place, and everything will be as ever.

Not for everyone.

Not for Charles Lucky Luciano.

Bring me the dossier on Gene Giannini.

- Right away.

Thanks.

- You're welcome.

Gentlemen, here's Lucky Luciano.

I'm here. What do you wanna know'?

- Where were you all this time?

Did you escape from Italy?

- Who gave you a passport?

"Ah, what frenzy! One at a time, please!"

Is it true you owned all of

Cuba's gambling houses?

Let's go sit down, I've prepared a table.

Mr. Lucania, today at the UN,

they're talking about you, about drugs.

Who talks about drugs

is always the Narcotic Bureau!

And that Asslinger!

Anslinger.

Harry Anslinger,

the head of the Narcotics Bureau.

Asslinger!

He's German, protestant and a cop.

If a racketeer is mowed down,

it's Luciands fault.

If the Queen of England leaves her

husband, it's Luciano's fault.

If at a party people have fun,

and there must be.. how you say

in Italian, "stupefacente"? - Yeah.

And they point to Luciano!

But for all Luciano and drug

are by now the same thing.

I don't take any.

Yeah, but the scandal is

in every paper. Mr. Lucania,

they talked about it in the Congress,

in the U. S. Senate!

It's politics.

In America they should elect a president.

Dewey, a republican, is the best man.

So, the democrats

resumed the story that it was

he who pardoned me.

He pardoned you for helping the army.

Is it true that in 1943, they parachuted

you to prepare the invasion?

Never seen Sicily from above.

Never crossed on a plane.

I go there occasionally, by ship,

just to Palermo!

Where I got a sweets factory.

- Right. Filled chocolates.

The comfits.

And I soak in the sun, like in Capri!

- And the contraband?

From your return, Sicily has become the

headquarter for contraband of cigarettes.

Look:

I smoke cigarettes of state monopoly.

And I think I'm the only one in Naples.

You too, what do you smoke?

They have no evidence against me.

If there was even an inch of proof,

I'd be in jail in the blink of an eye!

Why hasn't the U. S. asked

for my extradition?

I'd be ready to go back,

even in handcuffs!

And defend myself.

- Even in handcuffs?

You want to go back to America?

You were born in Italy!

I came to America as a young boy,

I lived there for 30 years as a free man.

I was unjustly condemned by the false

evidence of pimps and prostitutes.

No respect for the rules!

But here in Italy,

it's like a persecution.

There are no rules. Here..

Here.. they don't even know what bail is!

It was during Prohibition. - Prohibition!

Another story of Jesuits like Asslinger!

People wanted to drink.

And someone had to give them

something to drink.

If it weren't for us, what

would the government have done?

Eh! You performed a public service!

Yes, we performed a public service.

That's why we gave all of

our support to Roosevelt.

He knew that a lot of things

had to be changed.

That's why in Chicago, we gave him

our vote. - You like politics then?

But not in Italy?

This is a poor country.

What politics can you do without business?

Why, Mr. Lucania,

your affairs in Italy go wrong?

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