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Vendetta (1999)

Vendetta (1999)

Drama History TV Movie

Threats. Intimidation. Murder. His way is the only way.

Release Date: 1999, September 12
Directors: Nicholas Meyer
Countries: United States of America
Production: HBO, HBO
Cast: Clancy Brown, Christopher Walken, Edward Herrmann, Luke Askew, Joaquim de Almeida, George Martin, Bruce Davison, Amanda Brugel, Andrea Di Stefano, Kenneth Welsh, Richard Libertini, Pierrino Mascarino

Overview:

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.