You Tube Top Ten: Mafia, The Godfather of Lusitania (#7)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (87038)
United States
December 30, 2018 9:39pm CST
My brother just sent me a text and said Turner Classic is showing a Bogart double feature: The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca. I told him that is the stuff dreams are made of! I'll mosey into the living room in a few minutes and pop in the DVD of one of them and watch, since I don't have cable any more. Before I do, though, here's a You Tube channel I also enjoy watching.
#7: Mafia, The Godfather of Lusitânia
Nothing like a good mobster biography to make you appreciate life. 
One of my forthcoming channels is sort of related to this. Additionally, I do love the film The Godfather (and the first sequel), and there's a lot more reality in those films than you might think. Watching biographies of some of the real mobsters in American history proves that. Johnny Fontaine was Frank Sinatra, for instance, and movie producer Jack Woltz is based on the lecherous Harry Cohn, co-founder of Columbia Pictures.
It's not a "glamorous" life. Yet, it's still quite fascinating to see how much the mob influenced things, including labor, throughout the 1920s until their demise in the 1990s.
Mafia, The Godfather of Lusitânia
Mob biographies/documentaries
TV episodes
Since most of those are full-length episodes, here's a clip from The Godfather. As I said, many of the characters in those films are based on real mobsters. Moe Greene (introduced in this clip) was based on Bugsy Siegel:
One of my forthcoming channels is sort of related to this. Additionally, I do love the film The Godfather (and the first sequel), and there's a lot more reality in those films than you might think. Watching biographies of some of the real mobsters in American history proves that. Johnny Fontaine was Frank Sinatra, for instance, and movie producer Jack Woltz is based on the lecherous Harry Cohn, co-founder of Columbia Pictures.
It's not a "glamorous" life. Yet, it's still quite fascinating to see how much the mob influenced things, including labor, throughout the 1920s until their demise in the 1990s.
Mafia, The Godfather of Lusitânia
Mob biographies/documentaries
TV episodes
Since most of those are full-length episodes, here's a clip from The Godfather. As I said, many of the characters in those films are based on real mobsters. Moe Greene (introduced in this clip) was based on Bugsy Siegel:
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
31 Dec 18
"Round up the usual suspects."
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@RasmaSandra (98247)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 Dec 18
You know I was never into all of this. I have not even seen all of The Godfather movies but I did watch The Sopranos.
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