Witness to the Mob Page #10

Synopsis: Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's brother and his own boss, Paul Castellano, saw him rise to under-boss in the Gambino crime family. However, betrayals within the family saw him break the code of silence and became the highest ranking member of the mob to turn into a rat - 'a rat in a suit,- assisting the government to finally put away the Teflon Don, John Gotti.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Production: Trimark
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
Year:
1998
124 min
282 Views


- Bring him back.

Come on John, let's go.

Come.

- You're going down.

Do you hear me? You're dead.

Nasty cowardly Judas.

I'll kill you.

The state calls Salvatore Gravano on.

Look over there, a rat in a suit.

Your name?

Do you swear to tell the truth and nothing

the truth?

I swear.

I never looked behind me.

I knew that if I would do anything

I believed, would be destroyed.

Do you have a nickname?

Yes, they call me Sammy "The Bull".

How many murders have you committed?

Eighteen or nineteen.

Traitors, addicts, informers.

People who broke our laws

as I do now.

How many of these murders were ordered

or approved by John Gotti?

Gotti gave the order to murder

by Paul Castellano?

Why is Mr. Castellano murdered?

There were several reasons. He dressed

the family for their own gain.

He was with a few people at loggerheads.

John and Angelo Ruggiero thought

Paul wanted them to finish.

John Paul wanted to be one step ahead.

I told them everything. As I had promised.

Everything.

And I take that responsibility on me.

But that tape recordings were his work.

The game was out.

And John had lost.

He is bad, disingenuous.

He manipulates and is vain.

He tries to get out of

by nineteen murders to confess.

Nineteen people. Some of his

the relatives present here.

They should be happy if he will for

murder every three months receives.

What is left of our legal system...

Like a deranged serial killer

free to roam?

And for what?

For the head of the man on a

platter.

And if you still doubt

his mendacity...

The mother of his two children.

For fourteen years, she did not know...

That her own brother killed.

And it is chopped into small pieces.

A funeral has organized

for what's left of him was over.

A hand.

I want silence in the courtroom.

Suspects, stand.

President of the jury,

what is your opinion?

The RICO Act. Conspiracy to murder

by Paul Castellano. What is your opinion?

Guilty.

The RICO Act. Conspiracy to murder

by Thomas Bilotti, what is your opinion?

Guilty.

Guilty.

The RICO Act. Conspiracy to murder

by Louie Di Bono. What is your opinion?

Guilty.

It was over for John.

He later went to Marion, Illinois.

For the rest of his life.

John Gotti Fri

This is a milestone in the fight

against organized crime.

The smooth Teflon is gone and the Don

is as soggy as hell.

He did not come under these charges out.

The Mafia in New York City and in the

United States can now pack.

For many people it ended.

They were not happy and I took it to them

sorry.

Now they had to work for their money.

Sorry, we did not have anything better.

Thanks anyway.

Do you want something?

- Coffee, cigarettes?

No, thanks.

- We wait outside.

All these years I thought I knew you.

And all this time the man next to whom

I woke up every morning...

One thing, a beast.

Come on, you knew what I was doing.

How could you Nicky murder?

You lied to me, my parents,

our children.

So it just to you.

The kids and I have decided that

we can not go with you.

You can not stay here. The people

want revenge. Then they grab you.

We're not leaving.

We get protection from the FBI.

It's safer.

Since we were married, I

flee and hide.

That's over.

I want the kids to see.

First Nicky, when Mikey and Louie.

And now you betray your own people.

Do you think John is not also

I was planning?

It leaves me cold.

I turn to anyone in jail.

But remember this well, you should about me

say what you want...

But... I've always loved you.

To you and the children.

You are everything to me.

One day you wake up

and then your whole life wiped out.

Until the last piece.

How should you proceed?

How?

Mafiosi, corrupt police lazy,

union bosses.

I threw them down like skittles.

Never before has a criminal

the level of Mr Gravano...

About... leap from one world

to the other.

Never has anyone organized

crime as disadvantaged.

Those criminal octopus industry

and labor in its grip.

I got five years.

Yes, I did it to save my skin.

I sat my time and went to the West.

When I had it not, but I do now.

Was a big lie.

In reality it one

muck after the other.

One betrayal after it another.

Now there is no family.

Away with it.

Away with it.

How can live with that bastard?

With what he has done to me

and the borgata.

And his family and friends.

Only in this country can such

cowardly Judas rich and also a hero.

Sammy once said:
"Indicators

are born, not made."

He would rather die than squeal.

Then will he be dead

and in the sky.

You know what Gotti's problem?

He thought he could walk on water.

He thought that the earth, the moon and

the sun revolved around him.

And everyone bowed to him and kissed

his feet.

His run-beaten ego meant the

downfall of this borgata.

Only the prosecutor, the judge

and the FBI show that bastard as humans.

But that is only to deal with

him to justify.

He's a liar and a coward.

And he will spend the rest of his life

to flee.

But I love it still full.

If a man.

Cosa Nostra until my death.

What exactly goes into your head?

I must say it was sorry?

What should I say?

I'm a gangster.

What happened, happened.

You must understand one thing.

So that was life.

You are no longer protected witness.

You are no longer protected.

Be not afraid for your life?

I think there was a day when they

I want to tackle.

It goes as it should go.

I'm ready.

John Gotti is serving a life sentence

and will not be released early.

He sits in a prison for heavy

criminals in Marion, Illinois.

They accuse him of murder and

attempted embezzlement.

Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano lives

somewhere in the United States.

He is a businessman and he defends

in the proceedings against him.

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Stanley Weiser

Stanley Weiser is an American screenwriter. He was born in New York City. He is a graduate of the NYU Film School. His screen credits include Wall Street and W., both directed by Oliver Stone. He also wrote the 20th Century Fox film, Project X. He is credited for creating characters in the sequel to Wall Street: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. In addition, he served as script consultant on Oliver Stone's Nixon and Any Given Sunday. Weiser's other projects include two civil rights dramas, developed as feature films, but made for television. Murder in Mississippi, a chronicle of the 1964 Freedom Summer movement and the lives and deaths of Cheney, Schwerner, and Goodman, the three young civil rights workers who were killed by the Ku Klux Klan, which aired on NBC in 1990. It was nominated for four Emmys and won the Directors Guild of America Award for best TV movie. Freedom Song, a semi-fictional account of the early SNCC movement in Mississippi, was co-written with Phil Alden Robinson, who also directed. They shared a Writers Guild of America Award and Humanitas nomination for the 2000 TNT film. Weiser also adapted the novel, Fatherland, by Robert Harris, for HBO. It was nominated for three Golden Globe awards and Miranda Richardson won for best supporting actress in a TV or cable movie. He wrote the NBC four-hour mini-series Witness to the Mob in 1998, which was produced by Robert De Niro. He also wrote Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story, for which he received a Writers Guild of America nomination for best TV movie. As of 2012, he wrote a biopic on the life of Rod Serling, the writer and The Twilight Zone creator. Weiser began his career as a production assistant for Brian De Palma on Phantom of the Paradise, and as an assistant cameraman on the Martin Scorsese documentary, Street Scenes. He is married and lives in Santa Monica, California. He is a founding member of the West Los Angeles Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Center. more…

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