Gangland Wire Reviews The Irishman

12/16/19 • 45 min

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In this episode, Cam Robinson and I give our thoughts on the recent Scorsese movie about the murder of James Riddle Hoffa, The Irishman. Neither of us believes Frank Sheerhan. We would like to think that he was the Forrest Gump of the 1960s and 1970s mob hits, but Lee Harvey Oswald, Bay of Pigs, Allen Dorfman and Joey Gallo? Too much for us. But listen and decide for yourself. To go to the store or make a donation click here To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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Brothers against Brothers: The Civella-Spero War

Hey all you Wiretappers, As you may know, I recently finished my second documentary film Brothers against Brothers on the Kansas City crime family. In this film, Brothers against Brothers, I examine a mob war that pitted KC Mob boss, Nick Civella and his brother Carl “Cork” Civella against four “young turks” Nick, Mike, Joe, and Carl Spero. I have it for sale on my Website shop page and I offer it as a reward for any donation of $25.00 or more to the show. But for the small amount of $1.99 you can go to Amazon and rent the film. Even if you want the DVD with unedited raw interviews as special features please consider renting the film within a few days after you get this podcast. If enough of you download it at the same time and you give it a lot of reviews, Amazon will pump it up in their algorithms and offer it to more folks. In that simple inexpensive manner, you can give the podcast an immense boost. I make about 50% on digital downloads but the money I make from my regular fans is nothing compared to all the others out there who will then get an email with my film as a recommendation. This is a gift to the podcast that keeps on giving. The same thing happened to my other film Gangland Wire, but it took over a year to build enough downloads and reviews to get Amazon to promote that film. I want to cut that time down to a few weeks. I pulled out all the stops for this documentary. I hired a video company to produce reenactment scenes and film interviews. I hired actors and got friends to help film scenes inside a strip club and a mob hangout. I take the viewers to the actual locations for some of the interviews of the officers who worked the case. I released it last week at the Kansas City Mafia Film Festival and I got lots of favorable comments. Click here to go to Amazon for the movie rental. To go to the store or make a donation click here To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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Mob Town with Larry Henry

Retired police Intelligence Unit detective Gary Jenkins interviews Mob Museum blogger Larry Henry about his special pre-screening of the newest mob film, Mob Town. Larry reports this film has many comedic moments. The film’s director and writers tell the story of how a New York State Trooper, Edgar Croswell, discovered a meeting of mob chieftains from every major American city on Nov. 14, 1957. This film has some star power with David Arquette starring as Sergeant Edgar Croswell, Danny A. Abeckaser as Joseph Barbera, Sopranos Meadow Soprano, Jamie-Lynn Sigler starring as the wife of the host, Josephine Barbera and Gino Cafarelli who played Mayor Frank Rizzo on The Irishman, as Carmine Galente. A couple of great casting decisions were when the Director tapped the man who played the opera singing bad guy in the Goonies, Robert Davi as Vito Genovese and a Garry Pastore as Albert Anastasia. Pastore has been in many action films and he plays Matty the Horse Ianniello in the Duece. After that, we discuss my most recent mob documentary, Brothers against Brothers: The Civella Spero War. To go to the store or make a donation click here To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.