How to Become a Mob Boss dwells on the life stories of gangsters from different eras and different parts of the world. The Netflix documentary series is stuffed with information on the underworld and the different motives of the underworld kingpins making their way into the world of darkness. The first episode depicts the life of Al Capone and his journey from the streets to a skilled businessman. There is very little that we know of the underworld, and these episodes shed light on the way the mafia world works, enhancing our knowledge in this segment. How did Al Capone make his way towards becoming a boss in the underworld? What strategies were used by him to get rid of his rivals? Let us find out!
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What Is The Key To Becoming A Mob Boss?
A real mob boss has to have true leadership qualities within him to...
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What Is The Key To Becoming A Mob Boss?
A real mob boss has to have true leadership qualities within him to...
- 11/14/2023
- by Debjyoti Dey
- Film Fugitives
Mother of mercy, did the movies mark the beginning of Rico? The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was named after the character Rico Bandello in what is largely considered to be the first gangster movie, Little Caesar. While Edward G. Robinson’s Rico wasn’t specifically Al Capone in that film, the real-life gangster’s signature cigar fumes are all over it. Josh Trank replaced the Cuban Corona with a carrot in the recent Vertical Entertainment film Capone, which stars Tom Hardy as the title character in his twilight years, suffering from a premature burial. The aging mobster’s memories were buried by the syphilis microbe, and along with it went the clues to his buried treasure.
That speculative biopic also depicts Capone as a film aficionado. He sings along with Bert Lahr’s incomparable “If I Were King of the Forest,” from The Wizard of Oz, and educates...
That speculative biopic also depicts Capone as a film aficionado. He sings along with Bert Lahr’s incomparable “If I Were King of the Forest,” from The Wizard of Oz, and educates...
- 5/15/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
New movie Capone is set in the twilight years of America’s most infamous mobster. The slashes across his cheek which gave him his nickname “Scarface” are still there, but the movie is more concerned with deeper wounds. In spite of the Tommy gun and the Cotton Club from Hell scenes, Josh Trank’s Al Capone biopic is a tearjerker, not a gangster movie. Capone is 47 and his mind is rotting from the dementia caused by years of untreated syphilis. But then there were people in the industry who never thought the man who was the face of the mob had much going on under his thick skull. The statute of limitations on his tax evasion conviction had actually expired. If he hired a tax lawyer instead of a criminal lawyer, he might have gotten off.
Still, the mythology around him only grew. So much so that when Mario Puzo...
Still, the mythology around him only grew. So much so that when Mario Puzo...
- 5/14/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Capone, written and directed by Josh Trank of The Fantastic Four fame, isn’t a gangster film so much as it is a tearjerker. It is set when America’s most infamous gangster is 47 and his mind is rotting from dementia. Beneath the family tragedy is a national mystery. Whatever happened to the millions of dollars Capone stashed before he went to jail for tax evasion? Geraldo Rivera tried to answer this in the run-up to his 1986 TV special, The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults. But when he opened Capone’s secret vault in the Lexington Hotel live on TV, there was nothing inside.
As the new film shows, Rivera, like Capone, didn’t know where to look. In her book Uncle Al Capone: The Untold Story from Inside His Family, Deirdre Marie Capone says she knew the vault would be empty when she was approached to appear on Rivera’s show.
As the new film shows, Rivera, like Capone, didn’t know where to look. In her book Uncle Al Capone: The Untold Story from Inside His Family, Deirdre Marie Capone says she knew the vault would be empty when she was approached to appear on Rivera’s show.
- 5/13/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
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