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The Valachi Papers
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781404987395
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1404987398
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: D11522D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: January 03, 2006
Running Time: 125 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1972
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Editorial Review:
Sentenced to 15 years in prison, former mob "button man" Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) turns informant when he learns top Mafia capo Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura) has put a $100,000 contract out on his life. From thievery and extortion to vengeance and murder, Valachi spills the innermost workings of the Cosa Nostra, culminating in his riveting testimony before a Senate subcommittee on organized crime. Based on Peter Maa's best-selling book, THE VALACHI PAPERS is gripping, shocking and absolutely true, "a hard-hitting, violence-ridden documented melodrama of the underworld" (Variety).
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Bronson Fan
Great movie. Although, I purchased this movie as a gift for my husband, I really enjoyed it. Bronson, as usual, delivers great performance.
Rating: - A genuine effort in telling a true story in America
THE VALACHI PAPERS (1972) with the well known star, the late CHARLES
BRONSON, will interest those viewers with a passing curiosity on
crime phenomena, as well as fans of that actor and those interested
in the historical undercurrents of America, in matters of the
perpetual cat-and-mouse game of those operating within the legal
framework, with large sums of money at stake from commercial
operations, being the cops and robbers.
The picture is long in ... Read More
Rating: - Charles Bronson telling a True Story
This is an excellent movie I saw when it came out and again 35 years later.It's amazeing how close to the facts they made this flick.In my memory the special effects were better,lol,but the story is good.the special effects are on a par with the Gunsmoke series.I give it a A+ for story content and a B for the Acting,and another B for the effects,because they were state of the art. Good movie if you want to see a REAL-LIFE MAFIA STORY.
Rating: - Confessions of a hitman
The Valachi Papers was shot at a time when common wisdom had it that gangster pictures were box-office poison, so the very American tale of Charles Bronson's Cosa Nostra soldier spilling the beans on his life in the mob in return for protection by the Feds ended up being shot at Dinocitta in Italy with French money and an English director (Terence Young, reunited with Dr No villains Joseph Wiseman - wonderfully hammy here - and Anthony Dawson) only to end up being discounted as a Godfather ripoff ... Read More
Rating:  - Again in circulation
This item was banned of circulation for many years in VHS format. It was a very hard to get. Fortunately due to the marvels of DVD it is again on circulation. As a movie collector I am I am very glad of seing again Charles Bronson acting with his wife, beautiful Jill Ireland, that at the time of the movie production (1972) has been suffering a severe illness that finally cut short her life a few years later. If you like Mafia, mobsters movies, this is a good item for you to buy. It tells chronologically ... Read More
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