In “The Alto Knights,” DeNiro plays not one, but two infamous mobsters: Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, a pair of mafia ...

Vito Genovese was 15 years old when he arrived in New York City from Naples, Italy. His first brush with the law came when he was 19, according to “The Deadly Don: Vito Genovese” by Pulitzer ...

Robert De Niro plays both lead roles in Barry Levinson's The Alto Knights, but a different actor should have taken one of the ...

TIME talked to two experts on the mobsters, Tony DeStefano, author of The Deadly Don: Vito Genovese, Mafia Boss and Top Hoodlum: Frank Costello, Prime Minister of The Mafia, and Geoff Schumacher ...

“We don't know for a fact that Costello made that trip. He was not at that meeting…But it makes for a good film.” While Vito Genovese survived the meeting, it was the beginning of the end for hi ...

This is for you, Frank,” the young hitman snarled before firing at mob boss Frank Costello outside New York’s Waldorf-Astoria.

shouts Anna Genovese at her estranged spouse, gangster Vito Genovese, in a courtroom where ... his two characters just don’t look different enough. More importantly, “The Alto Knights ...

Here’s a look at how The Alto Knights tells the dramatic story of Frank Costello and Vito Genovese. TIME talked to two experts on the mobsters, Tony DeStefano, author of The Deadly Don: Vito Genovese, ...

shouts Anna Genovese at her estranged spouse, gangster Vito Genovese, in a courtroom where he’s implausibly ... his two characters just don’t look different enough. More importantly, “The Alto Knights ...