1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,500 of organized crime in America. 2 00:00:01,740 --> 00:00:04,980 The story focuses on three leading characters who are from immigrant 3 00:00:04,980 --> 00:00:09,180 families. It in no way reflects on the many positive contributions ethnic 4 00:00:09,180 --> 00:00:10,580 groups have made to our society. 5 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:16,740 What you are about to see deals with aspects of violent crime. 6 00:00:17,240 --> 00:00:18,580 Parental discretion is advised. 7 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:24,580 Tonight, the dramatic story that spans seven decades begins. 8 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:28,100 The Gangster Chronicles. It was the Roaring Twenties. 9 00:00:30,890 --> 00:00:34,870 A time when the country went dry and three young men made their move. 10 00:00:35,130 --> 00:00:36,130 I'm in business. 11 00:00:36,810 --> 00:00:38,270 I got the best merchandise. 12 00:00:38,910 --> 00:00:40,630 That's the sum of mouth you got, kid. 13 00:00:45,570 --> 00:00:48,510 I guess the firm's in business. 14 00:00:49,170 --> 00:00:53,890 Charlie Lucky Luciano, Benny Bugsy Siegel, and Michael Lasker. 15 00:00:54,380 --> 00:00:57,520 childhood friends who knew how to play the game and make it work. 16 00:00:57,740 --> 00:01:00,920 We're going to be in every business there is, and nothing hurts us, Charlie. 17 00:01:01,980 --> 00:01:03,800 Not as long as we keep using our heads. 18 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:05,660 They had guts. 19 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:06,920 They had style. 20 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:11,480 They formed an underworld syndicate breeding power and romance. 21 00:01:12,060 --> 00:01:14,360 I don't mind being your part-time mistress, Charlie. 22 00:01:16,500 --> 00:01:18,740 What I don't like is being your doorman. 23 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:23,400 It's the rules of the game, baby. 24 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:25,960 Part-time mistress, you get yourself a part-time lover. 25 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:30,000 Michael and Ruth Lasker, I think you're married. 26 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:35,300 Their fortunes grew, and so did the pressure. Next time we meet, Lushano, 27 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:37,860 you my friend or you my enemy. 28 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,620 Just keep with your friends. No fighting. 29 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:43,040 Just make money. 30 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:44,620 It's a war, Charlie. 31 00:01:45,060 --> 00:01:46,660 Everybody takes care of himself. 32 00:01:47,060 --> 00:01:49,400 And it was always the innocent that got hurt. 33 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:50,680 I know who you are. 34 00:01:51,380 --> 00:01:52,520 That's enough, Ruth. 35 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:55,260 Were you going to shoot me, Michael? 36 00:01:56,100 --> 00:01:59,960 They were pitted against themselves, their bonds of friendship, the target of 37 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:00,960 jealous rivals. 38 00:02:01,780 --> 00:02:03,520 Chung's going to leave us hanging by our thumbs. 39 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:10,580 Your associates, Lasker and Bogsy Siegel, get rid of them. We'd kill for 40 00:02:10,580 --> 00:02:11,459 each other. 41 00:02:11,460 --> 00:02:16,880 This is their story, a lifetime of success and anguish. And now, 42 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:20,340 The Gangster Chronicles. 43 00:03:59,660 --> 00:04:01,300 This is an American story. 44 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:06,640 It begins on the Lower East Side of New York, people by immigrants from Southern 45 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:07,640 and Central Europe. 46 00:04:08,060 --> 00:04:11,260 They came to this place searching for freedom and opportunity. 47 00:04:11,860 --> 00:04:17,060 What they found here was hard, often cruel, sometimes corrupt and unjust. 48 00:04:17,940 --> 00:04:22,940 Still, most would pour their labor into their adopted land, giving it more than 49 00:04:22,940 --> 00:04:23,819 they took. 50 00:04:23,820 --> 00:04:28,440 Others would burst from these surging blocks of poverty as gunmen and 51 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:32,980 gangsters. A few would become the leaders of a vast and violent criminal 52 00:04:32,980 --> 00:04:33,980 conspiracy. 53 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:38,980 This is the story of three men who created the secret American empire we 54 00:04:38,980 --> 00:04:40,340 call organized crime. 55 00:05:04,729 --> 00:05:07,050 Discusere. Pono. 56 00:05:08,490 --> 00:05:09,650 Esquisito. 57 00:06:18,730 --> 00:06:20,250 Hey, that's ours. 58 00:06:25,690 --> 00:06:26,690 Come on. 59 00:06:27,290 --> 00:06:30,150 Hey, take it easy. 60 00:06:31,550 --> 00:06:33,790 We split, okay? 61 00:06:35,090 --> 00:06:36,150 That's an Italian. 62 00:06:36,490 --> 00:06:37,490 He don't understand. 63 00:06:37,850 --> 00:06:38,850 He understands. 64 00:06:39,150 --> 00:06:41,250 I'll take that knife and shove it in his ears. 65 00:06:41,810 --> 00:06:44,950 Make friends, Benny. Everybody understands friends. 66 00:06:46,530 --> 00:06:47,530 Split. 67 00:06:49,419 --> 00:06:50,419 You? Benny? 68 00:06:52,280 --> 00:06:53,280 Michael? 69 00:06:54,340 --> 00:06:55,340 You? 70 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:57,600 Michael? 71 00:06:59,700 --> 00:07:00,820 Cops, you're dead, cops! 72 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:03,800 Benny! 73 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:15,280 Just a dead walk. 74 00:07:16,100 --> 00:07:17,100 Take a look around. 75 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:51,960 Why should I? He helped us, didn't he? 76 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:55,700 Yours. 77 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:57,400 Friends. 78 00:08:57,820 --> 00:08:59,760 Ben Siegel. 79 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,840 Michael. Michael Lasker. 80 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:05,420 Charlie Luciano. 81 00:09:06,020 --> 00:09:07,020 Take it. 82 00:09:08,340 --> 00:09:09,340 Friends. 83 00:09:10,100 --> 00:09:11,100 Friends. 84 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,220 You see, Benny? You see? 85 00:09:15,620 --> 00:09:17,100 Everybody understands friends. 86 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Thank you. 87 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:48,280 What is that? 88 00:09:50,620 --> 00:09:51,620 Oh! 89 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:53,780 That's what I love. 90 00:09:58,460 --> 00:10:02,280 Luciano. What I... You got a good heart, Charlie. 91 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,400 You tell your mama and papa they got a good son. 92 00:10:07,580 --> 00:10:08,580 Wait. 93 00:10:10,220 --> 00:10:12,240 That's for you. From Mr. Goodman. 94 00:10:15,530 --> 00:10:17,590 No? Oh, you want to see Schubert? 95 00:10:18,230 --> 00:10:19,330 That's why you come. 96 00:10:21,710 --> 00:10:22,770 Go, play. 97 00:10:22,970 --> 00:10:23,970 Be a boy. 98 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:50,040 I'm closed. 99 00:11:00,260 --> 00:11:01,079 I'm closed. 100 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:02,080 What's so important? 101 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:03,320 Please, a curse. 102 00:11:03,820 --> 00:11:05,580 I'm sorry, I don't know you. 103 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:09,380 Sorry. My name is Valentin. I come from Mr. Sayeta. 104 00:11:10,100 --> 00:11:11,820 I don't know any Sayeta. 105 00:11:12,680 --> 00:11:14,660 Lupo. You know Lupo the Wolf. 106 00:11:20,490 --> 00:11:20,989 I'm sorry. 107 00:11:20,990 --> 00:11:22,670 I have my voice. 108 00:11:33,990 --> 00:11:35,950 Please, Mr. Goodman. 109 00:11:36,670 --> 00:11:37,710 It's not for me. 110 00:11:38,010 --> 00:11:38,949 It's for Mr. 111 00:11:38,950 --> 00:11:41,290 Sayet. It's for Lobo. His respect. 112 00:11:43,630 --> 00:11:45,090 My business is gone. 113 00:11:45,350 --> 00:11:47,630 It's too much. I told the other men. 114 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:52,680 Every week's been too much. 115 00:11:53,020 --> 00:11:54,020 And too much. 116 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:56,700 But my wife is sick. 117 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:58,240 I have no money. 118 00:11:58,440 --> 00:11:59,319 We got money. 119 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:00,480 We got money for Lopo. 120 00:12:00,860 --> 00:12:02,000 Maybe next week. 121 00:12:02,380 --> 00:12:04,440 Sure. Maybe next week. 122 00:13:46,780 --> 00:13:49,940 Hey! Where the devil do you think you're going? Get down from there! Now! 123 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:52,880 What are you doing here? 124 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:54,460 Mr. Goodman. What? 125 00:13:54,740 --> 00:13:55,740 Mr. Goodman. 126 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:56,960 Hey! 127 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:58,440 Hey! 128 00:13:59,740 --> 00:14:00,740 You stay here. 129 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:02,520 Capisce? Right here. 130 00:15:02,449 --> 00:15:03,449 Have a tour, eh? 131 00:15:03,950 --> 00:15:05,350 It's too bad I didn't talk to you. 132 00:15:05,770 --> 00:15:06,770 Venica. 133 00:15:21,110 --> 00:15:22,470 Oh, Bruno Crusoe. 134 00:16:56,500 --> 00:16:57,860 Hachi. Cavalli. 135 00:16:58,520 --> 00:16:59,520 De Lucha. 136 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:01,680 Santucci. 137 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:03,400 Santoro. 138 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:05,480 Gavarini. 139 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:07,520 Vettieri. 140 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:08,900 Avelino. 141 00:17:09,780 --> 00:17:13,020 Serafina. And your brother. You too, you. 142 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:14,880 That's all. 143 00:17:15,380 --> 00:17:16,480 No more work. 144 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:18,119 Hey. 145 00:17:19,780 --> 00:17:20,900 What about me? 146 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:22,800 What's wrong with me? 147 00:17:26,190 --> 00:17:27,470 Your son got a big mouth. 148 00:17:28,270 --> 00:17:29,270 No work today. 149 00:17:30,210 --> 00:17:31,690 Got time to teach him a lesson. 150 00:17:44,350 --> 00:17:45,350 Okay. 151 00:17:47,030 --> 00:17:48,970 Mr. Gooderman, okay. 152 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:03,320 The school, eh? 153 00:18:03,420 --> 00:18:04,420 Go. 154 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:06,040 Go to the school. 155 00:18:28,620 --> 00:18:29,620 You're stupid. 156 00:18:30,670 --> 00:18:31,730 You'll never learn. 157 00:18:32,350 --> 00:18:33,830 You know what stupid means. 158 00:18:37,130 --> 00:18:40,390 Stupid-o, is that Italian enough for you? 159 00:18:43,290 --> 00:18:45,990 You don't even know what country you're in. 160 00:18:46,250 --> 00:18:47,250 Get out. 161 00:18:51,090 --> 00:18:52,730 Take your pencil box. 162 00:18:56,370 --> 00:18:58,970 Get your box or you'll be sorry. 163 00:19:29,139 --> 00:19:33,580 1,198 lives were lost when Germany torpedoed the great ocean liner 164 00:19:33,580 --> 00:19:35,240 Lusitania in 1915. 165 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:39,940 This infamy would turn Americans towards joining the World War, which was 166 00:19:39,940 --> 00:19:43,940 destroying the old order in Europe, despite President Wilson's dream of 167 00:19:43,940 --> 00:19:48,420 keeping America's sons from that bloodbath. But Michael, Ben, and Charlie 168 00:19:48,420 --> 00:19:50,980 had other thoughts in 1915. 169 00:19:51,620 --> 00:19:53,380 Charlie, come in. 170 00:20:05,350 --> 00:20:06,350 I was setting up another load. 171 00:20:07,770 --> 00:20:08,770 Another load. 172 00:20:10,870 --> 00:20:13,190 It's time for something else, Charlie. 173 00:20:14,310 --> 00:20:17,510 You could make a salesman. You could learn production. 174 00:20:18,030 --> 00:20:19,890 I like the streets. I don't mind deliveries. 175 00:20:20,710 --> 00:20:21,710 I mind. 176 00:20:23,390 --> 00:20:25,510 Come to dinner Friday night. We'll talk. 177 00:20:25,710 --> 00:20:26,710 We'll play a little. 178 00:20:26,930 --> 00:20:29,530 I'll tell you, Mr. Goodman, my nose is still sore from last time. 179 00:20:29,790 --> 00:20:33,930 You eat with the boss, you'll learn to play pinocchio. You get beat, you get it 180 00:20:33,930 --> 00:20:34,930 in the nose. 181 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:39,000 But one of these days I'm going to win, and then it's going to be your nose. 182 00:20:39,580 --> 00:20:42,500 By the time you win, sonny boy, you'll be a rich man. 183 00:20:42,780 --> 00:20:44,060 Then we'll play for money. 184 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:47,540 Go, make your deliveries. 185 00:20:49,220 --> 00:20:53,540 It's getting better out there. That fat hoodlum, that Joe Masseria, the one who 186 00:20:53,540 --> 00:20:54,540 works for Sayeta. 187 00:20:55,180 --> 00:20:57,340 I hear the police finally got him. 188 00:21:00,220 --> 00:21:01,960 I still believe in the police, Mr. Goodman. 189 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:06,440 Friday night. 190 00:21:11,790 --> 00:21:12,830 I'm late. 191 00:21:13,930 --> 00:21:14,930 Big shot. 192 00:21:14,950 --> 00:21:17,790 Sit down, Benny. I thought we were going to eat. Sit down. 193 00:21:20,870 --> 00:21:22,210 I just work here. 194 00:21:22,890 --> 00:21:25,470 We'll go to eat when the boss says they should eat. 195 00:21:25,890 --> 00:21:31,130 Okay. You're getting out of the streets? I don't like your friends, this Lasker 196 00:21:31,130 --> 00:21:32,130 and Lachiano. 197 00:21:32,390 --> 00:21:34,030 Oh, boy, they got jobs. 198 00:21:34,510 --> 00:21:35,610 Don't give me jobs. 199 00:21:36,620 --> 00:21:37,760 What do you do at night? 200 00:21:38,460 --> 00:21:40,320 What are you carrying on at night? 201 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:42,640 Girls, you know, we talk to girls. 202 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:44,720 Where do you talk? 203 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:47,740 In a busted warehouse with a crowbar? 204 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:50,940 We got a customer. 205 00:21:52,620 --> 00:21:53,620 Wait. 206 00:21:55,700 --> 00:21:57,000 What can I do for you? 207 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:58,280 A suit, please. 208 00:21:58,540 --> 00:22:00,040 Excuse me? A suit. 209 00:22:00,420 --> 00:22:03,500 You have to speak up. I can't hear you. I need a suit. 210 00:22:05,230 --> 00:22:06,230 Good. What size? 211 00:22:06,850 --> 00:22:10,930 I don't know. Maybe 40. Say that again. I don't hear so good. 40! 212 00:22:11,870 --> 00:22:13,030 40. Take this off. 213 00:22:13,930 --> 00:22:15,770 These are all 40. 40. 214 00:22:16,610 --> 00:22:19,230 Here we are. 215 00:22:20,490 --> 00:22:21,990 The very best merchandise. 216 00:22:22,910 --> 00:22:24,590 The very highest quality. 217 00:22:24,910 --> 00:22:26,050 The very finest. 218 00:22:35,790 --> 00:22:38,290 Mr. Lentz, how much for an XK-92? 219 00:22:39,090 --> 00:22:41,230 XK-92, that's $31. 220 00:22:42,530 --> 00:22:43,930 That'll be $21. 221 00:22:48,530 --> 00:22:49,910 I like it. 222 00:22:50,270 --> 00:22:52,790 He likes it. 223 00:22:54,970 --> 00:22:56,470 No more street. 224 00:22:56,790 --> 00:22:58,830 No more hoodlum friends. 225 00:23:00,990 --> 00:23:03,290 Cool, man. Cool. 226 00:23:05,290 --> 00:23:07,570 A good-looking boy like you, you can be anything you want. 227 00:23:09,310 --> 00:23:10,890 But honest and decent. 228 00:23:12,290 --> 00:23:15,570 Maybe I ain't no scholar, but honest and decent, I can teach. 229 00:23:16,150 --> 00:23:18,310 Sure, Pa, you bet. You teach me all about it. 230 00:23:39,980 --> 00:23:40,839 Do what? 231 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:42,060 You work tonight? 232 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,300 Mr. Wallace, I'd like to come in tomorrow morning if I could. I got some 233 00:23:46,300 --> 00:23:47,300 plans tonight. 234 00:23:51,580 --> 00:23:52,580 Bookkeeping? 235 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,180 I like to improve myself. 236 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,140 You got good hands. 237 00:23:58,660 --> 00:23:59,980 I like numbers, too. 238 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:01,880 Numbers? 239 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:03,520 Yeah, all kind of numbers. 240 00:24:08,590 --> 00:24:09,610 New shooter coming out. 241 00:24:10,070 --> 00:24:11,250 Come on, come on. 242 00:24:11,590 --> 00:24:12,590 Let's go. 243 00:24:13,450 --> 00:24:14,450 Come on, Ted. 244 00:24:15,050 --> 00:24:17,470 64 to point, 2 to 1. 2 to 1. 245 00:24:17,750 --> 00:24:22,250 Get over there. 246 00:24:22,570 --> 00:24:23,269 Stay there. 247 00:24:23,270 --> 00:24:24,270 Leave the money. 248 00:24:29,650 --> 00:24:31,690 Michael Lasker. Yeah, Sergeant. 249 00:24:32,670 --> 00:24:34,470 Common gambling's against the law. 250 00:24:37,050 --> 00:24:39,360 Sergeant. We're all friends here. 251 00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:41,440 Why don't you try your luck? 252 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:43,460 I'd break the law myself. 253 00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:45,500 Give me the dice. 254 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:51,160 Try the heartache. 255 00:24:52,620 --> 00:24:54,900 Make two fours, ten to one on a dollar. 256 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,480 I'm a poor man, young Michael. How would I have a dollar to gamble away? 257 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:01,220 I trust you. 258 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:29,880 Pay the gentleman. 259 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:32,980 Go on, pay him. 260 00:25:46,940 --> 00:25:48,180 Game's over for this night. 261 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:51,800 Michael! 262 00:25:56,490 --> 00:25:58,350 Should this game move from place to place? 263 00:25:59,230 --> 00:26:00,670 You'll be sure and keep me informed? 264 00:26:01,270 --> 00:26:02,270 Yeah, sure. 265 00:26:15,070 --> 00:26:17,250 That dumb Mick really made too force. 266 00:26:18,830 --> 00:26:20,510 Yeah, sure. What do you think? 267 00:26:20,750 --> 00:26:22,130 Of course he made too force. 268 00:26:24,930 --> 00:26:25,930 You keep it. 269 00:26:28,940 --> 00:26:29,940 You bought it. 270 00:26:31,940 --> 00:26:32,940 Danny. What? 271 00:26:33,180 --> 00:26:34,180 What? 272 00:26:35,260 --> 00:26:36,260 Don't catch a cold. 273 00:27:44,149 --> 00:27:45,390 I made a dollar. 274 00:27:46,570 --> 00:27:48,050 You want to play? You got to pay. 275 00:27:48,510 --> 00:27:50,170 I want your investment back or something. 276 00:27:50,630 --> 00:27:51,630 I'll tell it in private. 277 00:27:52,710 --> 00:27:54,310 You know, Charlie, I got a lot of spec hats. 278 00:27:54,510 --> 00:27:55,930 Somebody was asking Mr. Goodman. 279 00:27:57,190 --> 00:27:58,370 I deliver a lot of hats. 280 00:27:59,210 --> 00:28:00,210 Hey. 281 00:28:01,510 --> 00:28:04,250 Hey, bud. I mean, hey, you guys here. 282 00:28:04,910 --> 00:28:06,970 Somebody whacked Sergeant Reardon in the alley last night. 283 00:28:08,950 --> 00:28:10,290 Too bad for Sergeant Reardon. 284 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:12,560 You had a complaint a little before the war. 285 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:14,680 Charlie. 286 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:17,660 I could never hold out on you. 287 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:18,880 Not you. 288 00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:20,100 Not you, Mike. 289 00:28:27,740 --> 00:28:29,200 I got it, so tell me what's that. 290 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:32,680 Him? Him. 291 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:35,960 Him. You. Yeah, me. What? It's our money, ain't it? 292 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,580 You bounce cops in an alley, you're as crazy as a bed bug, Benny. 293 00:28:40,610 --> 00:28:41,630 I don't even know you. 294 00:28:43,750 --> 00:28:45,990 I don't even know you. I don't even know you. 295 00:28:48,290 --> 00:28:49,169 What? What? 296 00:28:49,170 --> 00:28:52,730 What? What? What? You're bugging me. You're bugging me. I'm bugging you. I'm 297 00:28:52,730 --> 00:28:54,650 bugging you. Okay. Bug you secretly, all right? 298 00:28:58,530 --> 00:28:59,530 Mm-hmm. 299 00:29:00,510 --> 00:29:01,510 Go on. 300 00:29:01,890 --> 00:29:02,890 Let me start. 301 00:29:20,700 --> 00:29:21,700 Charlie. 302 00:29:28,740 --> 00:29:30,680 Have you cleaned out the basement storeroom lately? 303 00:29:30,980 --> 00:29:32,020 Does Mr. Goodman want to clean? 304 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:33,700 I think it would be a real good idea. 305 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:41,480 Okay, maybe I will. 306 00:30:22,830 --> 00:30:24,010 Don't you like me, Charlie? 307 00:30:27,770 --> 00:30:28,890 I don't like this place. 308 00:30:32,610 --> 00:30:34,050 You gonna take me to a nice hotel? 309 00:30:36,070 --> 00:30:37,070 Maybe I will, Chris. 310 00:30:38,290 --> 00:30:39,370 Maybe I'll surprise you. 311 00:30:41,750 --> 00:30:45,990 In the meantime... You really are crazy. 312 00:30:46,750 --> 00:30:48,070 Because I like you so much? 313 00:30:49,910 --> 00:30:50,910 You like everybody. 314 00:31:02,410 --> 00:31:03,410 What do you want, Charlie? 315 00:31:04,550 --> 00:31:05,730 What do you want more than anything? 316 00:31:06,490 --> 00:31:07,490 Yes. 317 00:31:08,890 --> 00:31:09,890 You want out? 318 00:31:11,510 --> 00:31:12,510 You want money? 319 00:31:13,950 --> 00:31:15,030 Money's the same as out. 320 00:31:16,050 --> 00:31:17,310 And I know what I've got. 321 00:31:18,470 --> 00:31:20,790 I bet I could make money at it, too. So could you. 322 00:31:22,970 --> 00:31:23,970 What are you talking about? 323 00:31:24,250 --> 00:31:25,510 Well, I know some other girls. 324 00:31:26,070 --> 00:31:29,270 And we could get a place uptown, right out of the neighborhood. 325 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:31,940 And you're so strong. 326 00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:35,980 You could find us the right men. 327 00:31:37,900 --> 00:31:38,920 Men with money. 328 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:43,100 And you'd protect us. 329 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:46,420 Yeah, sure, I could do all that. 330 00:31:48,060 --> 00:31:49,060 Charlie, the protector. 331 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:51,640 Luciana, the bitch. 332 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:54,900 Thanks for the compliment. You wanted my parents. 333 00:31:56,260 --> 00:31:58,260 Why don't you try your luck with that slob, Marcelino? 334 00:31:58,960 --> 00:31:59,960 I forgot. 335 00:32:00,090 --> 00:32:01,090 He got arrested. 336 00:32:01,630 --> 00:32:02,830 Why don't you try Siantha? 337 00:32:04,070 --> 00:32:05,510 Maybe you could work one of his cribs. 338 00:32:06,530 --> 00:32:08,870 You want to go peddles yourself, have a good time. 339 00:32:09,610 --> 00:32:12,590 Whatever I am, whatever I'm going to be, I don't deal in women. 340 00:32:13,590 --> 00:32:15,010 What do you deal in, Charlie? 341 00:32:16,410 --> 00:32:17,410 Hats? 342 00:32:18,390 --> 00:32:20,030 Come on, what do you put in a half-oxen? 343 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:30,220 Because I don't want you to hurt me. 344 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,080 And I'm going to forget what you just said. 345 00:32:33,660 --> 00:32:35,220 And you forget, too. You understand me? 346 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:45,980 How much do I owe you for the visit? 347 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:53,040 If you paid for it, Charlie, I couldn't begin to afford it. 348 00:32:58,190 --> 00:32:59,190 But no hard feelings. 349 00:33:01,330 --> 00:33:02,330 No hard feelings. 350 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:34,200 he's running? Huh? 351 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,360 You could work here, close to your mother. 352 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,540 I'll teach you how to operate a sewing machine. 353 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:20,500 Want some tea? 354 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,679 I'll make you some eggs. How about some eggs? 355 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,280 Your friend Benny, he brought me some milk. 356 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:32,560 He did, huh? 357 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:35,280 He's a nice boy. 358 00:34:35,980 --> 00:34:37,920 Sure he's nice. He brought you the milk, didn't he? 359 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,300 You know, there's been plenty of milk. 360 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,500 You need enough eggs, you're going to get better. It's a scientific fact. 361 00:34:48,489 --> 00:34:51,070 The two best doctors in the world are a cow and a chicken. 362 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,120 I'm missing those Cossack pogroms in good old Poland. 363 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:22,840 Yeah. 364 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:24,700 You know where you're going? 365 00:35:26,660 --> 00:35:27,660 To the country. 366 00:35:29,180 --> 00:35:32,060 One of them farmhouses in the Catskills, yeah. 367 00:35:32,260 --> 00:35:36,720 Sit on the front porch for weeks and do nothing but watch the sun sets. 368 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:38,880 Count the trees. 369 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,320 They feed you four times a day. 370 00:35:43,140 --> 00:35:44,140 Maybe five. 371 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:46,860 The food is fresh. 372 00:35:47,260 --> 00:35:48,380 Everything's good for you. 373 00:35:49,670 --> 00:35:50,870 I'll just take you away. 374 00:35:52,390 --> 00:35:55,930 Nobody gives anybody anything, Ma. Not in Poland, not in America. 375 00:35:58,130 --> 00:36:00,030 Maybe we shouldn't have brought you here. 376 00:36:01,770 --> 00:36:05,690 Ma, America is the best place. 377 00:36:07,090 --> 00:36:08,970 It's the biggest machine that there is. 378 00:36:10,230 --> 00:36:12,470 And I'm just learning how so many parts go together. 379 00:36:13,950 --> 00:36:16,770 It may be a killed part, but it's not going to kill me, and it doesn't have to 380 00:36:16,770 --> 00:36:17,770 kill you either. 381 00:36:20,010 --> 00:36:21,810 We don't have to be poor. I'll prove that to you. 382 00:36:23,830 --> 00:36:24,830 You'll see. 383 00:36:25,470 --> 00:36:26,810 When you're sitting in the country. 384 00:36:28,510 --> 00:36:29,510 You'll see. 385 00:36:32,050 --> 00:36:33,050 Someday. 386 00:36:55,920 --> 00:37:00,760 Lupo the Wolf's shooter, Joe Masseria, was now the strongman of the Italian 387 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:01,760 ghetto. 388 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:06,860 Now he wanted to be boss of these streets, Charlie Luciano's streets. 389 00:37:07,380 --> 00:37:08,380 Hey, Luciano. 390 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,020 Everything will go with you, all right? 391 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,000 Fine, fine. 392 00:37:13,660 --> 00:37:14,940 I heard you had some trouble. 393 00:37:16,740 --> 00:37:18,700 Police. Oh, no trouble. 394 00:37:19,100 --> 00:37:23,140 The police, they stick their nose in the wrong place. I put them back in the 395 00:37:23,140 --> 00:37:24,140 right place. 396 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:25,760 What are they going to do to me, eh? 397 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,520 Sure. Good luck. 398 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:33,680 Thank you. 399 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:55,660 You can see your face in it already. 400 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:02,320 What's the matter? Where's my smile? 401 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,120 You come home for lunch? 402 00:38:13,140 --> 00:38:14,140 No, 403 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,380 I don't come home for lunch. 404 00:38:19,940 --> 00:38:22,120 I take you both out to lunch. We'll go to a nice restaurant. 405 00:38:23,210 --> 00:38:26,250 You are so rich, all of a sudden. 406 00:38:29,110 --> 00:38:30,570 Where's the funeral? Somebody die? 407 00:38:33,870 --> 00:38:35,450 Just stand over there, Charlie. 408 00:38:36,130 --> 00:38:37,130 Hey, who are these guys? 409 00:38:38,330 --> 00:38:39,330 Over there. 410 00:38:40,110 --> 00:38:42,270 Name's Palucci, federal agent. 411 00:38:43,550 --> 00:38:44,670 What are they doing here? 412 00:38:45,030 --> 00:38:46,750 They ask about you, Salvatore. 413 00:38:48,090 --> 00:38:50,470 You won't mind if we look at your hats. 414 00:38:54,540 --> 00:38:56,660 No, they're not my hats. They're Mr. Goodman's hats. I just deliver them. 415 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:00,760 Hey, what's going on here? 416 00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:02,500 What else do you deliver? 417 00:39:21,370 --> 00:39:24,910 Salvatore Luciano, you're under arrest for violation of the Harrison Act. 418 00:39:27,010 --> 00:39:31,250 Perché? No, please. Mama, mama. No, no, please. 419 00:39:31,970 --> 00:39:33,770 Che disgrazia. 420 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:33,440 All right. 421 00:40:34,300 --> 00:40:35,700 Where's this guy Luciano? 422 00:40:36,380 --> 00:40:37,380 There. 423 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:47,800 Hey, Luciano! 424 00:40:47,980 --> 00:40:48,899 Let's go. 425 00:40:48,900 --> 00:40:50,880 Forget it. Must be for Frank. 426 00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:52,520 I don't get visitors. 427 00:40:53,220 --> 00:40:55,580 It doesn't say Costello. It says you. 428 00:40:56,700 --> 00:40:58,120 Maybe it's your old man, Charlie. 429 00:40:58,460 --> 00:40:59,840 I told you, give him a chance. 430 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:01,400 He waited this long. 431 00:41:01,660 --> 00:41:03,140 He can wait a little longer. 432 00:41:03,660 --> 00:41:06,300 He can't. I can't. You're coming or not? 433 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:10,480 He coming. 434 00:41:56,490 --> 00:41:57,490 She sends her love. 435 00:41:58,970 --> 00:42:00,790 He doesn't want her to come here. 436 00:42:02,030 --> 00:42:03,029 Drugs, Charlie. 437 00:42:03,030 --> 00:42:04,530 How did it get to be drugs? 438 00:42:05,110 --> 00:42:08,170 I was delivering the hat. Somebody asked me to deliver something else. 439 00:42:10,370 --> 00:42:11,510 It's that Harrison Act. 440 00:42:11,750 --> 00:42:12,990 All of a sudden, it's a crime. 441 00:42:13,690 --> 00:42:15,970 A couple of years ago, they were selling that stuff right over the counter. 442 00:42:17,450 --> 00:42:18,630 You learned that lesson? 443 00:42:19,810 --> 00:42:20,810 Not about the drugs. 444 00:42:22,650 --> 00:42:24,590 Yeah, there's laws and there's laws, Mr. Goodman. 445 00:42:26,570 --> 00:42:27,830 Some of the cops he turned their backs on. 446 00:42:29,090 --> 00:42:30,090 The drugs. 447 00:42:32,290 --> 00:42:33,330 I learned a lesson. 448 00:42:35,490 --> 00:42:36,490 The police. 449 00:42:36,970 --> 00:42:38,130 How did they know? 450 00:42:39,950 --> 00:42:43,010 Maybe a girl, I don't know. Maybe Joe Massaria. 451 00:42:43,830 --> 00:42:44,830 Massaria? 452 00:42:45,070 --> 00:42:47,790 Yeah, he was arrested and all of a sudden he wasn't arrested no more. 453 00:42:48,350 --> 00:42:49,630 Maybe he traded me off. 454 00:42:50,910 --> 00:42:52,010 Listen, sonny boy. 455 00:42:53,210 --> 00:42:55,170 I learned a few things in my time. 456 00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,620 You go for revenge, you better dig two graves. 457 00:43:00,820 --> 00:43:02,680 One for your enemy, one for yourself. 458 00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,120 They teach you that in the hat business? 459 00:43:07,300 --> 00:43:10,940 When you come out, Charlie, you'll come back to me. 460 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:13,780 You'll make a salesman. 461 00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:16,700 You'll count on a job. 462 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,300 You'll come to dinner, a little pinnacle. 463 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:22,760 You'll get it in the note. 464 00:43:26,730 --> 00:43:32,050 Thanks for thinking about me. I appreciate it. But I got other plans. 465 00:43:33,550 --> 00:43:34,550 Hmm? 466 00:43:34,850 --> 00:43:35,850 What plans? 467 00:43:37,250 --> 00:43:38,470 This is the land of opportunity. 468 00:43:39,590 --> 00:43:42,510 That's why my folks came here from Sicily. You know, to pick up the gold 469 00:43:42,510 --> 00:43:43,510 off the streets. 470 00:43:44,910 --> 00:43:46,190 Now, I ain't looking to fight nobody. 471 00:43:47,750 --> 00:43:49,330 I just want my opportunity. 472 00:43:49,990 --> 00:43:50,990 Just like the cops. 473 00:43:51,550 --> 00:43:54,710 and the politicians, and the businessmen with their sweatshops, and everybody 474 00:43:54,710 --> 00:43:57,070 else who isn't standing around waiting for a gold brick to fall on. 475 00:43:57,870 --> 00:43:58,870 Crooks, Charlie. 476 00:43:59,890 --> 00:44:02,970 I eat three meals a day. I made a business. 477 00:44:03,470 --> 00:44:04,610 Am I a crook? 478 00:44:06,130 --> 00:44:07,630 No, you work hard, Mr. Goodman. 479 00:44:09,370 --> 00:44:10,610 And look what they did to you. 480 00:44:13,090 --> 00:44:14,410 You want to be like them? 481 00:44:15,110 --> 00:44:16,390 Is that what you want? 482 00:44:16,890 --> 00:44:18,710 No, I'll never be like them. 483 00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,760 I know disrespect, but I'm not like you either. 484 00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,140 After they burned you that time, did you pay them off? 485 00:44:28,940 --> 00:44:29,960 Say yes, people. 486 00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:34,320 That was a long time ago, Charlie. 487 00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:38,880 And you're still paying them? 488 00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:43,280 Who's going to protect me? 489 00:44:57,800 --> 00:44:58,940 by him. Just give me a few years. 490 00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:09,000 There's a girl that works for you, uh, Crick Brennan. Oh, yeah, the pretty one. 491 00:45:09,700 --> 00:45:10,960 Is she still there? 492 00:45:11,540 --> 00:45:12,700 No, she went away. 493 00:45:13,060 --> 00:45:14,060 A man. 494 00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:15,960 They say she went to Chicago. 495 00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:20,420 Thanks for coming, Mr. Goodman. 496 00:45:23,820 --> 00:45:26,800 Oh, I forgot to ask, how's business? 497 00:45:28,270 --> 00:45:30,930 They say they'll be in the ball in France any day now. 498 00:45:31,510 --> 00:45:32,550 I'll make heads. 499 00:45:33,570 --> 00:45:35,030 They'll be taking young men. 500 00:45:36,450 --> 00:45:37,710 No, they won't be taking me. 501 00:45:39,110 --> 00:45:40,110 I'm a criminal. 502 00:45:41,590 --> 00:45:43,330 Ask the police. They don't lie to you. 503 00:46:10,710 --> 00:46:15,250 1920. The guns of World War I were silent, and the young men who survived 504 00:46:15,250 --> 00:46:19,630 it returned to the normalcy promised by President-elect Warren Harding. But 505 00:46:19,630 --> 00:46:23,750 peace did not bring prosperity, and unemployment would reach record numbers. 506 00:46:24,030 --> 00:46:28,050 Life would not be easy for a young man with a prison record. But Charlie 507 00:46:28,050 --> 00:46:31,890 Luciano celebrated his release with a last legal drink with his friend Michael 508 00:46:31,890 --> 00:46:32,890 Lasker. 509 00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,560 I believe, Mikey, I believe this whole damn country is going to jail. 510 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:20,600 Either that, or a lot of people are going to get very rich selling bootleg 511 00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:21,600 booze. 512 00:47:21,700 --> 00:47:24,240 I hear Arnold Rothstein's got warehouses full of them. 513 00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:28,960 Arnold Rothstein may be a big brain, but he's not the only one who's got a 514 00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:29,960 warehouse. 515 00:47:31,140 --> 00:47:32,720 I'm a businessman now, Charlie. 516 00:47:33,060 --> 00:47:34,960 No more warehouses at 2 in the morning. 517 00:47:35,740 --> 00:47:38,640 Mike, I'm talking about broad daylight. 518 00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,500 As legal as a church, and with the right party. 519 00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:44,560 Who's really got all of the liquor down? 520 00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:46,560 The government. 521 00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:48,380 The government of the United States. 522 00:47:48,660 --> 00:47:51,420 They made all of this, Michael. They made it just for you and for me. 523 00:48:17,900 --> 00:48:19,620 Can we serve you folks something? 524 00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:23,540 Not at these prices, thank you. Thanks all the same. 525 00:48:24,100 --> 00:48:26,360 Listen, come back anytime, boy. 526 00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:27,900 Be my guest. 527 00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:30,740 Make sure you bring the cash, hmm? 528 00:48:34,140 --> 00:48:36,460 Let's go get some ice cream. Aw, Charlie. 529 00:48:37,220 --> 00:48:40,120 Charlie, don't you like ice cream? Yeah, I like ice cream. 530 00:48:40,380 --> 00:48:42,420 Well, why don't we have to get some ice cream? 531 00:48:48,810 --> 00:48:52,810 Charlie Luciano, Michael Lasker, and Ben Siegel were hardened criminals. 532 00:48:53,330 --> 00:48:55,290 They lived in a violent world. 533 00:48:55,830 --> 00:49:00,910 Like the others in that world, they lived by the gun and by a cruelty that 534 00:49:00,910 --> 00:49:02,390 was someday to destroy them.