anybody with the dvd should definitely check out the hour documentary on the whole cleveland mafia. it is gritty and real and interesting
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behold, sublime genius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXRYA1dxP_0
Will check it out.
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If you can get your hands on a documentary made in the 1980's called "Crime Incorporated" you will enjoy a detailed history (6 hours) of organised crime in the USA from its beginnings in the 1800's to the mid 1980's. About 15 minutes of it covers the Cleveland mafia & Danny Green. There's also extra interviews from the hitman who blew up Green: gives a good insight into how a mobster's mind works.
shareIt's on netflix instant.
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you saw the doc on instant play? i didn't see it.
send me a link please
thanks
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Danny-Greene-The-Rise-and-Fall-of-the-Irishman/70181660?strkid=660711471_0_0&lnkctr=srchrd-sr&strackid=131ff998bad78783_0_srl&trkid=222336
only an hour long documentary, but pretty good. Definitely worth watching before or after watching the movie.
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got it, thanks.
yeah i saw it last summer when i had the dvd, but i never knew (till now) that extras were gonna be on instant play.
good thing to know.
MrBigg that doc is great also..a real time killer
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if anybody wants to read more about danny
http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2011/02/car_bomb_kills_danny_greene. html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Greene
http://www.dipity.com/jkroll/Kill-the-Irishman-The-real-life-story-beh ind-the-movie-about-Danny-Greene/
http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_6.html
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/birns_ greene/1.html
I think that's the main value of the DVD. Buy the Danny Greene documentary, get a fairly entertaining movie free.
shareMobsters - Danny Greene on Bio channel is great also
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Agree. Also, you will recognize a lot of the actual news footage they used in the movie.
shareThe documentary was AMAZING!! The movie, not so much.
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I'd never heard of this guy b4 this movie...I guess maybe, partly because nobody had heard of a mob in Ohio b4 this movie..I guess if you have a waterfront and a union for that, you have a mob.
not much of a mob, but..
and why did everyone need to be taken out by cute methods like car-bombings?
Everyone I can think of except Ritson, was blown up...isn't it hard to plant bombs on people's cars without them noticing or checking once you have done that a few time already?
I guess it was cute the way Greene was killed by sticking a bomb on the car parked next to him..but watching THAT car come along and park next to him in any empty carpark, did not make him suspicious???
What's interesting is the look at ...OHIO as a hotbed of Mafia/Irish mob activity. We know about New York, and New Jersey and Chicago and Kansas City.
But...Ohio?
Actually, Ohio makes great sense as a mob state. The history of America finds "the East Coast" steadily moving Westward from NYC through Philadelphia and Ohio before becoming the Midwest...the tenticles of organized crime just kept moving to each adjacent state.
Though evidently the West Coast was a harder nut to crack. We have LA Confidential and Mullholland Falls to show us how the Mafia didn't make much headway in LA. There's little talk of Oregon or Washington State Mafia. Of course, they sewed up Vegas for a few years....
Anyway, the Ohio Mob. It has stories, too.
PS. Dean Martin hailed from an Ohio mobtown -- Steubenville. His real name was Dino Crocetti.