September 12, 1999
117 minutes
DramaTV Movie
Vendetta
Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the 1890's. After the Chief of Police was brutally murdered, much of the city's Sicilian population was rounded up and brought in for questioning. Eventually, thirteen were formally tried for murder and nine went to trial, and while they were acquitted, a series of brutal lynchings showed they had as much to fear from the city's general populace as they did from the corrupt police force.
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Cast
Alessandro Colla
(Gaspare Marchesi)
Pierrino Mascarino
(Antonio Marchesi)
Luke Askew
(William Parkerson)
Clancy Brown
(Chief Hennessy)
Christopher Walken
(James Houston)
Andrew Connolly
(Sheriff Bill Villere)
Bruce Davison
(Thomas Semmes)
Joaquim de Almeida
(Joseph Macheca)
Andrea Di Stefano
(Vincent Provenzano)
Megan McChesney
(Megan O'Brien)
Edward Herrmann
(D.A. Luzenberg)
Richard Libertini
(Giovanni Provenzano)
George Martin
(Judge Baker)
Daragh O'Malley
(Dominic O'Malley)
Kenneth Welsh
(Mayor Joe Shakspeare)
Amanda Brugel
(Red Lantern Lady)
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