Vendetta (1999 film)

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Vendetta
	Film poster
Genre	Crime drama
Based on	Vendetta; by Richard Gambino
Teleplay by	Timothy Prager
Directed by	Nicholas Meyer
Starring	Christopher Walken; Luke Askew; Clancy Brown; Alessandro Colla; Andrew Connolly; Bruce Davison;
Music by	John Altman
Country of origin	United States
Original languages	English; Italian;
Production
Executive producers	Gary Lucchesi; Gary Randall; Mark Israel; Nick Pileggi;
Producers	Tony Mark; Sue Jett;
Cinematography	David Franco
Editor	Ronald Roose
Running time	117 minutes
Production company	HBO Pictures
Original release
Network	HBO
Release	July 3, 1999

Vendetta is a 1999 American crime drama television film directed by Nicholas Meyer, written by Timothy Prager, and starring Christopher Walken, Luke Askew, Clancy Brown, Alessandro Colla, Andrew Connolly, and Bruce Davison. Based on the 1977 non-fiction book of the same name by Richard Gambino, it depicts the assassination of New Orleans police chief David Hennessy and the consequent March 14, 1891 lynchings of eleven Italian Americans. It aired on HBO on July 3, 1999.^[1]

Premise

Nineteen Italian-Americans were accused of the murder of David Hennessy, the police chief of New Orleans. After the acquittal of six and mistrial of three, ten of them were shot or hanged in one of the largest mass lynchings of Americans in U.S. history.

Cast

Christopher Walken as James Houston
Luke Askew as William Parkerson
Clancy Brown as Chief Hennessy
Alessandro Colla as Gaspare Marchesi
Andrew Connolly as Sheriff Bill Villere
Bruce Davison as Thomas Semmes
Joaquim de Almeida as Joseph Macheca
Andrea Di Stefano as Vincent Provenzano
Edward Herrmann as D.A. Luzenberg
Richard Libertini as Giovanni Provenzano
George N. Martin as Judge Joshua G. Baker
Pierrino Mascarino as Antonio Marchesi
Daragh O'Malley as Dominic O'Malley
Kenneth Welsh as Mayor Joseph Shakspeare
Gerry Mendicino as Charles Matranga
Frank Crudele as Angelo Bagnetto
Vincent Marino as Pietro Monasterio
Louis Di Bianco as Emmanuel Polizzi
Peter Didiano as Bastian Incompara
Giuseppe Tancredi as Umberto Scaffidi
Megan McChesney as Megan O'Brien
Stuart Stone as Tony Provenzano
Nigel Shawn Williams as Samuel Foster
Anna Mancini as Francesca Marchesi
Tony Mark as Mayor's Assistant
Conrad Dunn as Pasquale Corte
Ian Downie as Priest
Ron White as Robert Collins
Jack Newman as Jacob Seligman
Jack Jessop as William Yochum
Wayne Robson as Frank Peeter
Delores Etienne as Emma Thomas
Joel Gordon as William
Victor Ertmanis as John Duare
Richard Blackburn as Warden Davis
Holly Dennison as Miss O'Brian
Herbert Johnson as Houston's Servant
John Healy as Construction Foreman
James Bearden as Governor Francis T. Nicholls

Production

The teleplay by Timothy Prager is based on Richard Gambino's book, Vendetta: The True Story of the Largest Lynching in U.S. History (ISBN 1550711032).

Principal photography took place near Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

References

^ "Vendetta". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2013-03-30. Retrieved 2014-02-11.

External links

Vendetta at IMDb
Vendetta at AllMovie
Time Warner press release Archived 2011-01-05 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] "Vendetta". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2013-03-30. Retrieved 2014-02-11.

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