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Threats. Intimidation. Murder. His way is the only way.
Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the 1890's. After the Chief of Police was brutally murdered, much of the city's Sicilian population was rounded up and brought in for questioning. Eventually, thirteen were formally tried for murder and nine went to trial, and while they were acquitted, a series of brutal lynchings showed they had as much to fear from the city's general populace as they did from the corrupt police force.Read moreLess
Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the 1890's. After the Chief of Police was brutally murdered, much of the city's Sicilian population was rounded up and brought in for questioning. Eventually, thirteen were formally tried for murder and nine went to trial, and while they were acquitted, a series of brutal lynchings showed they had as much to fear from the city's general populace as they did from the corrupt police force.
The story
Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the 1890's. After the Chief of Police was brutally murdered, much of the city's Sicilian population was rounded up and brought in for questioning. Eventually, thirteen were formally tried for murder and nine went to trial, and while they were acquitted, a series of brutal lynchings showed they had as much to fear from the city's general populace as they did from the corrupt police force.
Cast & crew
Christopher WalkenJames Houston
Pierrino MascarinoAntonio Marchesi
Luke AskewWilliam Parkerson
Clancy BrownChief Hennessy
Andrew ConnollySheriff Bill Villere
Bruce DavisonThomas Semmes
Joaquim de AlmeidaJoseph Macheca
Andrea Di StefanoVincent Provenzano
Edward HerrmannD.A. Luzenberg
Richard LibertiniGiovanni ProvenzanoExplore the crew
- Director
- Nicholas Meyer
- Writer
- Timothy Prager
- Writer
- Richard Gambino
- Original Music Composer
- John Altman
- Director of Photography
- David Franco