The Mafia’s Dark Knights

In The Alto Knights, director Barry Levinson and his stars, Robert De Niro (as Frank Costello) and Robert De Niro (as Vito Genovese), trace the rise and fall of the real-life postwar Mafia with the speed, humor, and panache that director Raoul Walsh and his stars, James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, brought to the rise and fall of fictional pre-war gangsters in The Roaring Twenties (1939).

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