Set in Post World War II Britain chronicles the rise and fall of real life British crime lord Charlie Richardson.
Charlie features rough, disturbing, serious, realistic and bleak style.
Producer Dino De Laurentiis acquired the screen rights to Peter Maas' source best-seller in 1969 about three years before the movie premiered. As soon as the production of the movie was announced, producer Dino De Laurentiis said that he started getting a series of telephone calls from unidentified people 'inviting' him to drop the project. De Laurenttis was unavailing of these invites and pressed on with the film's development and pre-production.
The Valachi Papers - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The film's closing epilogue states: "After seven years in solitary confinement Joseph Valachi died of natural causes. So did Vito Genovese... ...but six months earlier".
The Valachi Papers - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The film's opening prologue, a quote from Senator Robert F. Kennedy, states: "Crime is a question of criminals. It is not a matter of race, color or religion - Robert Kennedy when Attorney General of the United States".
The Valachi Papers - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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