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I believe this whole damn country is going to jail.

Either that, or a lot of people are going to get very rich selling bootleg booze.

Charlie Luciano, Michael Lasker, Bugsy Siegel.

Three friends who fought their way up from the slums of New York

and forged one of America's most notorious crime syndicates.

The women who loved them.

Joy, Charlie's part-time minister.

Chris, his lifelong friend and informant.

As well as Al Capone's mistress.

Michael's innocent and naive wife Ruth.

Stella, Ben Siegel's wife.

Trapped in a world she couldn't control.

In New York, Charlie Luciano and Arnold Yeah.

But the shipment is ambushed as rival gangland leaders

battle for power and control of the underworld.

Why should they pay you, Luciano?

Why not just to take what you bring to me?

Who's you going to stop with me?

I'm going to stop with you, this pig.

Soon, it comes to a war.

Sorry, I'm late.

Austin's dead.

There's nothing we can do about that.

Not a piece is going to us.

Club, casinos, everything.

We can hold on to it.

The killing of Arnold Rothstein, like Charlie Luciano, Michael Lasker and

Ben Siegel, take over Rothstein's criminal empire.

But they needed time and an end to bloody warfare like Al Capone's St.

Valentine's Day Massacre.

Charlie, Michael and Ben set a meeting in Atlantic City to propose a peace to the

Lords of Crime, Frank Costello, King Solomon, Dutch Schultz and Al Capone.

How are you?

Good to see you.

Lovely place here.

I like to bring you away.

Good to see you.

Nice to see you.

Now, wait.

Come on, both of you.

Let's go.

Come on.

Frankie, you said it yourself when we were kids in prison.

And I got you that time for carrying a pistol.

You said Frank Costello would never carry a gun again.

Well, we can get rid of the guns.

If we just use our heads, if we can make them understand.

Well, who?

Everybody's in here, Charlie.

Where's Maserria, huh?

Where's Montano?

What?

They stood in your eye?

Solly, that's a New York problem.

We'll take care of New York.

We can just make a national arrangement.

Hey, I'm New York, too.

I buried a hatchet.

Somebody's right, boy.

Find it.

I'm putting it in my head.

Talk to the king.

What do you say, Solly?

No one will go along any way Capone wants to go along.

Capone.

What?

He's killing us.

People are scared to walk the streets.

He ain't killing me.

Now,

Rastin, share your big man, Charlie.

You want to be one of those diplomats?

Turn us into the legal nations or something.

I like it on my own, Charlie.

I'm doing just fine.

And you work it out with Capone.

Arnold Rastin was a smart man.

He said, make money.

Don't fight.

Arnold Rastin.

I hear he's dead.

What do we fight for?

You and me, Charlie?

We don't fight.

You deliver my whiskey?

We fight, believe me.

I don't stand here and make love.

Ow.

Look, this thing on Valentine's Day.

It's hurting all of us.

Pretty soon the police are going to move them.

We're all going to suffer.

The police.

You're kidding.

Listen, we've got to make some rules about the killing.

Protect all of us.

Look, Bruce is laying golden eggs.

Don't put it up against the wall and shoot it.

All right, now I'm going to tell you something.

Today I leave and land a city and I go to Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, I get arrested.

Gunshots, some like that.

My lawyer's got it all worked out anyway.

They send me up for a couple of months, right?

Capone is arrested.

Capone gets punished.

Everybody's satisfied.

They don't have to shake in your boots, no more.

That's terrific.

Couple of months in a country called jail.

Come on down.

Things have got to change.

Everything has got to change.

Okay, Charlie.

I'm going to tell you a story.

I want you to think about it tonight when you go home to bed.

I've got a couple of guys who work for me.

They're like you and your friend, did you, Michael?

Smart, careful.

I make a few plans and for me I make something too.

Didn't beg.

And write all their friends.

And then tie them to the chairs.

And I smash their heads in with a baseball bat.

Excuse me.

I got to go get arrested.

Who do they find to talk about so much?

Don't you know?

I'm not that naive.

I know they're still whisking.

Everybody's still drinking, see another wedding.

You think that's all there is?

I thought you'd

be on the beach and join the sun.

I've been on the beach.

What's wrong with me?

Huh?

Something's wrong?

I'm sorry I've been busy.

Those men you've been talking to are there.

I know who they are.

I know who you are.

I never lied to you.

Everything was a lie.

Ruthie, it's business.

They'll understand.

I understand what?

Did I marry someone?

I don't even know.

I'm no different.

I'm the same fellow who drove you to New York.

What do I mean to you, Michael?

You're my wife.

I love you.

You give me children, maybe a son.

We'll live our lives together and make each other happy.

Charlie and Ben, how would they mean to you?

We'd kill for each other.

Have you?

They'll understand it's not what you think.

Sometimes we fight for our lives.

How fun is it?

How fun is it, Michael?

God help us.

Shh.

All right, thank you.

Can I talk to Michael?

Oh, yes, Charlie.

Talk to my husband.

Talk to him.

Talk to him.

Talk about business.

Should be all right.

We had to face a few facts.

I'll make it up to him.

What about Capone?

He wouldn't listen.

Do you want me to talk to Benny?

No.

I want you to keep Benny out of this.

How good are our friends in Washington?

We're working on it.

Talk to him.

As a new law, the government wants to tax it on a legal income.

Do it that way.

We'll let them handle Capone.

It'll take time.

How much time do we have, Charlie?

I don't know, Michael.

I don't know.

When Al Capone said he'd go it alone, the Atlantic City meeting collapsed.

Charlie, Michael, and Ben returned to New York and found themselves caught between

the warring forces of Joe the boss, Masseria, and Salvatore Maranzano.

Charlie went alone to see Joe the boss on his ground, knowing the danger.

Most of all, he knew his and his friends' chances of remaining outside the war,

lessened by the hour.

Come on, Charlie.

What are you doing?

Come on in, soldier, son.

Come on.

Hello, come here.

Hello, come here.

Joe the boss is waiting for you.

Ah, Luciano, finally come with the same, Masseria.

Sit down, sit down, have a good wine.

I see you, uh, no, bring your buzzy-siggles.

That's good.

That's smart.

I don't like him.

I never forget what he thought to me.

But, you know, bring him.

Probably that's the trust for me.

Like I think I trust you too.

Like I trust him.

My friend, Lorraine, I just make him a boss.

I make all the boss now.

All right, all right.

What do you think, Luciano?

Are you going to shoot me or something?

I know, Mrs. And she's a little, little kid.

A long, long time.

I'm going to shoot you.

I'm going to shoot you.

I'm going to shoot you.

I'm going to shoot you.

I'm going to shoot you.

I'm going to shoot you.

Remember when we first took business?

I tell you, I know you're going to become an important man.

Well, is it true?

You do business with me, everybody, long, long time, and you're still alive.

That's an important man.

Things are changing now.

You know, I'm in a big, big war between me and Maranzano.

You know, you stuck in the middle.

Maranzano, you make him crazy.

Because he's crazy.

He's a chaser.

He's a chaser.

He's a Julius Caesar from Casa del Melte, Del Gallfo.

He make a La Casa del Brea, he's a war.

Not me.

See?

He think he's a smart, but he's not smart.

He's stupid.

I'm a smart.

I tell you something you never know, Luciano.

I got over 1,000 a gun out there there, just to wait for the word for me.

I got a pranny with a boss like Arrana.

I got a New York to sort up it.

I got a my good friend, Al Capone in the Chicago.

They're backing me up.

I got the more men than the Army got the soldier.

So pretty soon.

I'm gonna get to my revenge on this snoo way, Caesar.

I'm gonna make a degree before Maranzano and put him in a hole.

And you're gonna be there with me.

All right.

How you talking?

Well, I was a kid, Joe.

A wise man gave me peace with my son.

He said, Charlie, whenever you go for revenge, you better dig two graves.

One for your enemy and one for yourself.

This isn't my war.

Mano has to be unified.

You're still stuck in the middle.

Ma, what do you think, Luciano?

Everybody dance, you sit on the wall and watch it.

When the music is stuck, everybody dance.

Even you.

I prove it to you.

Last night, the last night, you and your

girlfriend, you're going to restaurants in Solerno.

You order Vila Piccata.

The waiter will serve you.

He's what you call a fill in.

He's only there one night.

He's got a big mold here.

He's got a big gun in his pocket too.

He's working for Joe Pinzolo.

Pinzolo, he's working for me.

I tell you this to Luciano because last night,

I make a telephone call to the restaurant.

I said two words.

Kill him.

And you're a dead man.

I got to know more worry about the Mr. Luciano, which way are you going to go?

Because you're going to go.

Now, I like you very, very much.

I know you a long, long time.

I tell you this.

Bring in your operation.

Bring in your gun.

Bring in your brain.

I make you my number one boss.

Bigger than the rain.

Bigger than anybody.

But to me.

You with me, Luciano.

With me.

I'll talk it over with Michael.

Michael who?

Michael Ashken?

He's no one of us.

Neither am I, Joe.

Sounded society thing from Sicily, the boys from this town against this village.

That's not my way of life in America.

Your life in America, in Sicily, all are the same.

Friend, or enemy.

You're with me, or you're with the dead man.

The next time we meet Luciano, you're my friend, or you're my enemy.

And in the end, I win.

Mr. Joe the boss.

Look, Casey.

Look, Casey.

Look at me, look at me.

You move like a dead one.

You know mine, you stay here.

I go.

Look, Casey.

He keep you company.

And pull your head in the right place.

Make up for your mind.

Look at that.

Look at that.

Sleeping around.

I still talk pretty good baseball.

I used to play ball in the streets, I don't have it.

Masseria says come and you're going to come.

It's a war, Charlie.

Everybody.

They scare himself.

No thanks now right now.

Are you sure?

There's nothing you want?

Maybe a little later.

Ben?

What are we doing with?

Ah, what's the thing on the button?

There's a depression going on out there.

You couldn't prove it in here.

How'd it go?

How did he go?

How do you think it went?

Joe the boss.

What a big man he is.

How he loves me so much.

He could have had me killed last night, except he loves me so much.

How much he's going to do for all of us, and

then we're all going to dance on Marzano's grave.

Who's his mother is going to win?

Everything I hear Marzano's beating his brains out.

We're not picking horses back.

No?

But that's what we were doing.

Charlie, you want a drink?

Hey, Benny.

You know, just because we sell that stuff doesn't mean you have to drink it.

I'm a big hitter out here.

What does Masseria want?

He wants to sit.

He wants you win.

Benny and me, we don't belong to that particular club.

Oh, really?

I'm going to tell you something, Michael.

Sooner or later we're going to get sucked into it.

Like America got pulled into this war, we're going to get pulled into this one.

Why?

For what?

The guns go off, we got nothing to win out there.

In the end, we're going to run out of choices.

We're going to have to move.

We don't have to do anything.

We're not street hustlers, Charlie.

We're operating under our own steam.

Politics, we got politicians.

Protection, we got Benny's troops in business.

The way things are going, we're going to have more lending money than the banks.

We're going to be in every business there is, and nothing hurts us, Charlie.

Not as long as we keep using our heads.

I'll keep us out as long as I can, Michael.

It's Friday night.

You're going to get out of here and you're going to drink Catholic.

Make friends, Charlie.

Don't fight.

Make money.

Can I finish?

Never mind.

You know what he's really saying, don't you, Charlie?

No, what?

Whatever we've done, we've done together.

You could get yourself into this war.

I'm not supposed to take care of you.

You mean, how am I going to take care of you and Michael?

Is that what I mean?

Tell you what, Benny.

You take care of the troops.

Michael will take care of the money.

And I'll take care of all of us.

Another thing, Benjamin.

This is a place of business.

And in case you've forgotten, you're a married man.

Try to keep your hands off the cocktail waitresses.

This is meant to say you are like a dream, please.

A cocktail which is Laura.

Do you tell I take my drink now, please?

Thank you.

You laid, Michael.

I'll go get you dinner.

I want to talk to you.

There's nothing to talk about.

We'll reason it out, OK?

Michael.

No, not like that.

This is a night for truth.

Everything happens in God's eyes.

Do you believe I love you?

Yes.

Did you love me before we were married?

Yes.

The night we were married.

Yes.

And the day after that.

The night now.

Married, but no love.

Someday will you love me again?

I don't know.

Then it'll be this way forever, hm?

Forever.

Forever's a curse, because there'll be no other woman.

I don't run around.

It's you I wanted.

You I want.

Soon we're very old, maybe.

You'll forgive me for being Michael Askin.

And then we'll make a love again.

Thirty years?

Twenty?

Two years?

Six months?

Can we start with that?

Start with it.

And with it, I don't care anymore.

That's enough, Ruth.

What are you going to shoot me, Michael?

Sure.

See the blood?

There.

Always with my hand.

Whatever the world is out there, I don't bring it into this house.

You don't care anymore, then I'll have to care enough for both of us.

I chose you for my wife.

You accepted me.

We share the same house.

We should share the same bed for the first time since Atlantic City.

There will go to bed.

It's a special blessing.

When?

I'm to bed, Michael.

What kind of a man do you think I am?

You're my husband.

You have a right?

You're not my wife.

When you ask me into your bed, then you'll be my wife again.

Don't worry.

Don't scream.

There's somebody here.

I'm staying.

I go here.

It's nothing.

It's nothing.

It's only a scratch.

It's all right.

Hey!

Hello there.

How are you doing?

How's what's your name?

Where you been?

I've been to Officer Charlie.

No, you haven't been with Charlie.

He just called.

He's been trying to find you.

What is this?

What are you running here?

Detective Bureau or something?

Ben.

What?

What is it?

You made me a princess, Ben.

You put me in this house.

I have maids.

I have everything I could ever want.

But if you're going to lie to me, lie better than that.

At least let me pretend that you're not sleeping all over town.

Stella.

Stella.

Oh, it's still comfy.

That's why I'll be.

I'll never do it again.

I swear to God.

Well, that's better.

Now I can pretend.

You better call Charlie, if somebody just tried to kill Michael Lasker.

How did Ruth take it?

She was afraid?

For me.

There was a doctor with the police.

He gave us something to sleep.

Lunatics.

Michael's house.

His own house, Benny.

What the hell were you?

What was I supposed to do?

Stand outside with the gun?

Somebody should have been here.

Charlie's not in our end of the business.

He's sure that you issued of me.

I didn't think they tried to take Michael.

He's right, Charlie, for your reason.

You just saw how right he is.

And don't talk to me about being reasonable.

Now from now on, I want this place protected 24 hours.

You're buying a house across the street.

You buy up the whole block after you do your job.

All right!

I'll put my hands in the flag before it happens again.

All right, Charlie?

Michael, from now on, you carry a gun.

Cabiche?

All right.

I might come out below you.

Was it, Vino?

Well, I saw the body, so there's no question.

It was Dr. Velli.

He belonged to Joe the boss.

What city?

What city?

I'm still going to stay out of the war, Michael.

I'm still going to do that little trick.

There's the profit, Charlie.

Revenge?

You're going to take revenge to the bank?

How do I put it on the books, a credit?

We tear apart everything we built for this.

Michael, in the meeting with my city, I told him I wanted to talk it over with you.

He said you're not one of us.

He's right, Michael.

You're not staying clear the war is going to create its own war.

Vito and me are going to take care of that, from now on, you're out of it.

Now, are you going to take care of his guards or his veto going to do it?

I'll take care of it.

Good.

Just so it doesn't interfere with your love life.

I'm glad you're okay, Michael.

Because these things are...

Thank you, Vito.

Well, hey.

You know how I feel about you?

What happened?

It's okay, Benny.

Charlie's going to leave us hanging by our thumbs.

Charlie's going to do what's best for all of us.

That's a fact.

I don't want to hear anything else.

Look, Mike, this whole ash up, we got.

It's your brain and my muscle.

Now, don't you know that?

I know that without Charlie, you'd still be busting

warehouses, and I'd still be running a garage.

So, will we go on like this forever?

You raised his voice to you.

We heard your feelings.

You're jealous of Vito, so you're soft, like a baby, like a baby without a gun.

You want what you want.

Benny, you got to learn how to wait.

How long do we wait, Mike?

Huh?

Good night, Benny.

The conversation's over.

Yeah, you're right, Mike.

It's been a long, long night.

Turn out the light.

First, he had to meet with Maranzano because

Joe the boss had tried to kill Michael Lasker.

Second, that attempt on Michael's life was one more bloody

warning that time was running out for himself and his friends.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Cesar's campaign.

You should read them, Charlie.

Ab uno de che amnes.

Learn Latin, Charlie, and read the wisdom in his own hand.

Cesar whispers in my ear, maybe you stand by my side.

Then, carobambino, we take the world.

Thank you.

What a visit.

I appreciate the invitation.

See, see, see.

For those who were the eyes to see, my own campaign is already one.

Cesar, why Al Capone, what about my seria?

In the end, Capone will pay his share of the tribute pair of pay.

The ones that live, those that join with me, they will share.

You've met with my seria.

Yes, I have.

Good.

Let there be truth between you and me.

Joe, the boss.

The boss of the pigs, the boss of nothing.

Maybe we leave him in the North Pole, huh?

No.

He offered to make you a big man.

Ma, you're already a big man.

You think I don't know that?

Why do you think I cost you like a bride?

Now, Charlie, you want to hear my offer?

I'm a guest in your house.

Everything you have, you keep.

Everything.

I want nothing.

Everything I have, I give you a portion.

The work of my lifetime belongs to you.

What we make together, we divide reasonably.

This I offer you to join with me.

Your offer is very generous.

I take my profit from your strength even more after we make our victory.

And if I still choose to stand alone.

Alone is alone.

There are many considerations.

Come.

Hello, Charlie.

Guy Tatano Reyna.

From the camp of Joe the boss.

You too, Tom.

Yeah, Charlie, we're coming over.

We'll bring our shooters.

When Don Salvatore gives us the word.

Until then, we stay with Mazari.

He's going nuts, Charlie.

Like he eats as ideas with us.

There's never enough.

These two, they are my secret ambassadors.

There are many others also.

Diplomacy.

Diplomacy, Charlie.

The force of arms.

To be wise and ruthless.

Who can resist us?

We want you to understand.

So that you'll know.

We're all together.

Hey, our lives are near hands.

I'll give you my word.

I won't betray your confidence.

We know that.

Mazari.

If you ride the carousel, Charlie.

Ride the white horse.

Now it's for you to speak.

If we make a deal.

Terms you offered, we have to work out the percent.

You'll be satisfied.

I guarantee it.

Don Luciano.

There is one additional requirement.

Your, uh, commensate each, uh, associates.

Laska in a boggsy sego.

Get rid of them.

Get rid of the Jews, Charlie.

That

he could no longer stay out of the castle, Marisie War.

The most violent of all the conparaga.

He had to choose one side or the other.

And if he chose the wrong side, not only he.

But his friends, Michael Laska, and Ben Siegel, would be killed.

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