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Ladies and gentlemen,

we are now over the island of sicily.

In a few minutes we will arrive at the palermo airport.

The local time is 10:00 A.M.

Please observe the no-smoking signs.

Thank you.

- Modrano?

- Attention, please. - Si, signore.

Attention, please.

Passengers arriving on flight number 22 from New York

may now claim their baggage at passport control.

- Dammi.

Vince!

Vince!

- Frank. Frank.

- Hey, frank. - Hey.

What are you, crazy?

Why the hell didn't you tell me you was comin'?

- Well, I just wanted to surprise you.

- Oh, boy, some surprise, all right.

You'd have been the one with the surprise.

Hey!

This is my brother!

Look at you, dirty bum.

- How was the trip? - Fine.

- Hey, how is she, carmela?

- She's fine.

I brought some pictures.

- Jeez, I miss her. - She misses you, too.

- Sure. Two lousy letters since we've been here.

Some brother. What'd you do, break your arm or something?

Hey, how's Emma? The kids?

She have any trouble with the new baby?

- No, not a bit.

Half hour after we got to the hospital, there she was.

- I wish I could see 'em.

I can't believe it.

You're really here.

Hey, wait till ida sees you.

She's gonna go crazy. Come on.

Bitch.

Hey!

- Hey, you look great. - Huh?

Baloney. Eight pounds.

- Looks good on you.

- Hey, that's all you brung?

- Oh, well I decided so fast.

You dirty bum.

Hey!

So, when carmela came home with a report card like that,

Emma and I were just knocked out.

The next day I went down and bought her the stereo.

That's some daughter you got there.

Good as bread, ida.

You ought to see the way she helps around the house.

- She was always like that, from a little baby.

Vince, are you sure everybody's all right?

- Ida, enough. Enough.

- I've been making this for your Christina.

Look. Velveteen.

Then I'll put the lace here.

- It's beautiful. It's just great.

- Yeah, in the summer, as soon as school's over,

carmela's gonna come. Huh?

We would've brung her, but this ain't for her.

It's, it's another world here.

Vinny, you come, too. Emma, the kids.

- I wish we could, frank. - Sure.

- I got a million things i- - you got nothin'.

- Relax a little. - Oh, we'll see.

- Ida, cafe.

Say, uh, vinny.

Where's my driver?

What do you hear about Pete?

- Well, nobody's seen him since you left.

He's probably in Miami with some chippy.

Yeah.

- Uh, look at this guy, will you?

Who could believe it?

The three of us here in sicily. Huh?

What's the matter?

- Oh, nothing. I, I'm just a little tired, that's all.

- Why don't you lay down, take a nap.

- Yeah, I think I will.

- Sure, the way the time changes with the jet,

it makes you all dopey.

I know. I was sleepy for a week.

He looks good, huh?

Ah, I just want to hug him.

- Frank? - Mm?

- Why is he here?

- What are you talking about? He's my brother.

- You know they're going to send somebody.

- Cut it out.

I don't want to hear that, you understand? Cut it out.

- All right, frank.

- How about another one?

- Come on, take a picture! - A little closer.

- Say cheese! - Yes.

- Music, music, music!

- Emma, Vince, to you.

Health, and much happiness.

- And the money to enjoy them.

And lots of kids.

At least five.

- Well you got it all figured out, huh?

- To Vince and Emma and your five kids.

Hey, take your hands off. You lost a daughter.

- Oh, you're stealing my life, you, you lousy crook, you.

- You napolitan.

He's got the sigi blood now, huh?

Hey, Emma, how come a beautiful girl like you

got such an ugly old man?

- Hey, frank. - You hear that?

Your brother-in-law on your wedding day.

Wonderful family relations you're gonna have.

- Beautiful. - Hmm, beautiful.

Hey, frank, come on, will you?

- Carmi, how many you had?

- It's my third. - How about the two

- before the cake? - Oh, papa.

- It's only three, frank. - You see, vinny?

You see how they stick together?

Hey, look at Pete.

- Hey, Pete. - Hey.

- What are you laughing for?

You're worse than carmi. How many you had?

- Two bottles. - Uh.

Ooh!

Hey, sol.

- Mazel tov, frank. - Thank you, sol.

- Congratulations, frank. - Frank.

- This is a big day for me.

No trouble?

- Like butter. - Everything like I told you?

- Exactly.

- Okay.

- Frank.

- Father, you did a wonderful job.

- Thank you. - Very, very nice.

Very nice.

Everybody having a good time?

- Hmm? Oh, frank!

- Hey, Frankie! - Yeah, hi, how are you?

- Great party. - Yeah, great party.

- Hey, what's the matter with you guys?

Why aren't you drinking? Wine too strong?

See, dom, I told you not to invite these cake-eaters.

Oh, sure, sure.

How do you like this guy?

He expects us to have a good time,

all the while he's got his boys here

giving us the evil eye.

- Hmm? What are you talking about?

- All that muscle you got over there.

Look at those mustachios.

They don't make 'em like that no more.

- Well, they was friends of pop's, and-

- Those are some soldiers you got there, frank.

- Dio! Is that peppino, turridu?

- Yeah. - I thought they was dead.

- Come on, papa, let's dance. - No.

- Hey, come on! - Go on, frank!

- Take it easy on him. - Dance with your daughter.

- He's not so young anymore.

- That's what you think, huh?

- Give 'em the old one-two, Frankie, come on!

Come on, spin her around!

- Come on, frank!

- Hey, hey! - Hey!

- Smile, frank, smile!

- Bravo, frank.

Hey, you're the greatest, Mr. Ginetta!

Hey.

Salute.

- You said it, Pete. You and me for 100 years.

Ah...

- How about an encore, - hey!

- Mr. Ginetta?

- That's some wedding.

- Yeah, it's nice, huh?

- There's only one thing missing, frank.

- What's that? - Your father.

If he could be here to see. Huh?

- Yeah.

- Hey, Mr. Ginetta, you're some dancer.

- Oh, yeah!

- Hey, you're the next one to get married, huh?

- Hey, look at you. You're a big girl now.

- Nice of you to come. - Yeah, yeah.

- Don peppino. Turridu.

- Nice friends you got over there.

- Ah, what are you gonna do?

Turridu.

Don francesco, salute.

- Grazie. - Salute.

Hey.

Ah...

- Hey? - Yeah!

- Hey, come on! Hey, don't jinx him.

- Hey, hey, congratulations, vinny.

- Thank you.

Frank.

- Hey, vinny, what?

- Frank, let's get some air. - Sure, sure.

Well, how's it feel to be an old married man?

- Like I'm in some kind of a dream.

- It's a dream, all right.

You're home now, college, the army.

A million years, it seems.

- Yeah, for me, too.

- Hey, that Emma.

You better be good to her.

That's some wife you got there.

I think she might work out.

Frank, I've been thinking

about what I'm gonna do now.

- That thing you told me about in Boston?

- Global petrochemical. - Sounds pretty good.

- I don't think so, frank.

- No? Ah, don't jump.

Don't let nobody push you.

With your brains, they're gonna break down doors

to get what you got.

- But you don't have to break down any doors.

- What do you mean?

- You know what I mean.

- You wanna come in with me?

- Unless you don't want me.

- With your education, you can go anywhere you want.

- Frank, I'm in.

I've always been in, haven't I?

- You don't know how long I've been waiting

to hear you say that.

Ginetta brothers.

What's better than that?

- Nothing. - You're damn right.

I need you, Vince. Honest to god, I really need you.

Hmm. We're gonna show these bananas how to operate, huh?

Okay. Now, first thing Monday morning-

- wait a minute. Wait a minute.

I just got married, remember?

- All right.

When you get back, I'll have all the books ready.

The whole works. I'll show you how it all goes together.

Books, vinny. That's all it is now.

Not like when pop was alive. Arithmetic.

It's just arithmetic, vinny. That's all it is.

- Come on, honey, now we can't start out like this.

- Just for a little while, I thought maybe

it could be different for us.

I thought we could...

- You thought we could what?

Come on, tell me.

- Let it go, Vince.

Let it go.

- Honey...

Honey, I owe him.

Ever since I was eight, it's been just frank and me.

He's done everything. Everything.

He's got dues coming.

He even waited until I grew up before he got married.

Now, what am I going to say to him,

"thanks a lot, Frankie.

Good bye and good luck?"

I can't do that. He needs me.

- What about the rest, Vince?

- Honey, I've got two degrees that say,

"you need somebody to add two and two fast?

"You get Vince ginetta."

Now, that's all I'd be doing. Bookkeeping.

Credits, deficits... Vince,

- stop kidding yourself. - Oh.

- You wanna go in with him.

It's not just that you owe him. You want it.

- Honey, I've lost a lot of time

between the army and school.

I'm almost 30 years old.

I'm not gonna spend the next 20 years

punching a clock so I can end up a 10th vice president.

They need somebody like me.

I got a way to go and go quick.

I can fit in there my way.

- There's only one way. Theirs.

- Okay, now, you just stop.

I'm not frank,

and I'm not your old man.

- Okay.

If that's the way you want it,

that's the way it's going to be.

But I, I don't wanna know anything.

Nothing. Don't tell me anything, Vince.

That's, that's the only way I can do it.

I don't wanna know ever.

Please. Please.

- Jake, solly. - Wait.

- Okay you guys.

Just relax. I'll talk to the warden.

Your friend the comedian.

- Hey, sport, I hear you dropped a few scuti at aqueduct.

- Well that dumb jockey, he didn't use the whip.

- How much they take you for? - Solly.

- Sure, sure, some handicapper.

- Lost a bundle, huh? - Listen, it's only money.

You still got your first nickel.

- Emma's due now, huh? - Oh, you said it.

She's got a watermelon there.

- Looks like another boy. - It better be,

or we're gonna send it back.

- Hey, frank. - Hmm?

- I hear you're big in the real estate business these days.

- You kiddin'? I got a genius for a brother.

You ought to see that guy.

You know, he goes through a whole set of books

while he's talkin' on the telephone?

Brains. Only sometimes too much.

Once a month I gotta kick him in the head.

- Hmm. - Hold all the calls.

- You gotta do that with geniuses.

- Could we get started? - Mm.

- Okay. Uh, first thing, the investigating committee.

Now, they got about two more weeks in Cleveland,

then they hit us.

This Attorney General Kessler's got big political ambitions,

so he's makin' with the big mouth for next year's elections.

- He's got a big nose, too.

Especially when it comes to the labour thing.

- He can't be reached? - No chance.

- We know he's after two of us for sure.

Dom, you open any place?

- Couple of small things. I take care easy.

- How about your union loans?

He says he's got big things planned for you, frank.

- That's nice. I like people which takes an interest.

- Well, just check everything twice.

This ought to go like the last one.

These clowns get on TV,

holler a little, get their votes,

and everybody goes home happy.

Oh, and, frank, next time there's any problems,

let L.A. handle the contracts, huh?

- Finks, I handle myself.

A dead bird right in the mouth.

- We decided to use la. - For stuff like that,

and only after the vote.

We're supposed to operate together, discuss.

- You button your action, I'll handle mine.

That punk deserved it.

- That's not what Jimmy's talkin' about.

- Listen, ginetta, every time you act

like some brownsville torpedo, you got every sorehead

and eager-beaver politician pointing fingers.

- And that's no good. We gotta be like the wallpaper.

- Like the furniture. - All right.

- Especially now, the way things are going for us.

- All right, furniture. I'm a chair.

Solly, you be a table, huh?

Hey, dom, you look like a good flower pot, huh?

- All right, if we're finished with the jokes,

let's get on with the new business.

Solly.

- The major problem has been how to put our surpluses

to work in legitimate enterprises.

I think this new plan offers one very tangible solution.

Funds from our numbered accounts

in Switzerland and Central America

can be lent back to certain front men here.

People we can buy.

No records, good business heads.

Solid community types.

These men will invest heavily

in the smaller electronic companies,

subcontracting the government space and missile projects.

- We got a survey on these companies?

- Yes, they're small, but absolutely vital and specialised.

With long-range, careful, and planned investments,

and certain legal stock manipulations,

I think we could eventually control

this part of the industry.

Then, the second part

- of the operation is easy. - No.

- What's the matter, frank? - Well, I don't like it.

Look, explain that second part, sol.

Now how does that go?

- That's the guarantee we control the entire situation.

Once we have these companies, our labour teams

will move in to organise and consolidate

the unions that service them.

With increasing international pressures, defence,

the space race, I think our position, to say the least,

becomes very advantageous.

The second part of this operation

gives us a considerably big fist.

- Maybe too big a fist.

- Oh, boy.

Every plan's got something wrong with it lately.

- What's the matter this time, frank?

- Nothing.

You just can't put a new idea in that hard sigi head.

- What's this? I expressed an opinion.

That's against the law or something?

- Come on, come on. We got things to do.

Solly.

- We can handle it if we go easy and work everything out

to the last comma and decimal point.

- We all buy that. Let's move on.

- Wait a minute. You decided already?

How about the vote?

- Dom.

- I say go.

- Jimmy? - Okay.

- Frank?

- I vote no.

And yes for me.

Now you want to discuss some more?

- Yeah, I want to discuss.

I say we're grabbin' plenty of federal trouble we do this.

You know, the government ain't gonna just sit around

and let you stick 'em where it hurts the most.

- Yes, sir. Coming, Mr. Bertolo.

- Pop.

What's up, pop?

- Things ain't so good, vinny.

- Frank?

- You think all these years, maybe you know,

you understand somebody.

You don't.

I talk to him quiet, plain.

I try to make him understand.

You think it gets inside here? It don't.

Everything the board comes up with now, it's no.

Sol, Jimmy, Jake, huh?

How long you think they gonna take

that kind of stuff, huh?

I'm tellin' ya, they had enough,

especially after today.

Up to here.

- Pop, you know frank.

- Listen, we ain't playin' for matches here.

We got new action to consider almost every week.

We gotta move.

There's 10 hungry ones for every one of us,

ready to make the decisions if we don't.

They could push him right out.

He could lose everything.

Yeah, and you too.

- Look, vinny, you gotta understand something.

You're frank's brother. You're my son-in-law.

So you had things just the way you wanted all along.

That's fine. I wish you the best.

But with the board, that don't mean nothing

if they gotta push.

I've been talkin' to a couple of 'em about,

well, how you might button a part

of this new electronics operation.

I ain't said nothin' to frank because

you know the way he's been, but now...

Look, vinny, if frank don't see things right,

you might have to make a decision

to go out with him or come with us.

Or maybe they don't even give you the decision.

Maybe you go out with him just the same.

What he does hurts you. See?

It goes like that, vinny, I can't help you.

I can't help you at all. I want you to understand that.

I want you to think about that when you talk to him.

Okay?

- Yes.

- How's Emma?

- She's fine. - And the kid?

- Fine.

- The wa, watermelon?

- Everything's all right.

- Hmm.

You call me after. Hear?

- I'll talk to him tomorrow.

- Today.

- Frank!

Frank!

- Vinny. You see that lousy ball?

- Frank, it's 9:00. - Wait a minute.

- Can we go now? - We're goin'!

One minute! It's the last point!

- Hey, frank, I've been- - I've rolled...

Oh!

- Shh. Shh.

Hey, Pete, explain it to these guys.

- Never against the wall!

- Frank.

Frank!

- Vinny, vinny, sit down. Have a drink.

Hey, we gotta play another one to decide.

- Frank, I told you, I've gotta talk to you.

- 10 minutes. - Oh, right.

- Hey! 10 more minutes!

- I said forget it. - For cryin' out loud!

It's gonna kill ya? Hey, vinny!

- Francesco!

Hey!

- Hey, Mr. Ginetta. - Yeah, look at you,

a bunch of goof-off artists.

Make like you're workin', huh?

Hey! Hey, Willie!

- The kid get over the measles? - Yeah!

- Hi, Gloria. - Good morning, Mr. Ginetta.

- What have I got?

- One o'clock, reporter from the news.

- Interview about the hearing. - Mm, forget it.

- The district attorney's office wants to know

if you'll come in for some preliminary questioning,

or should they send a subpoena?

- Tell 'em to call my lawyer. What else?

- Your brother's here. - Mm.

- And Mr. Peppino called.

- He leave a number? - Yes.

- Hi, vinny. - Hi.

- Hey, got it all laid out, huh?

- Mm-hmm. - That's good.

- How'd the game turn out last night?

Aw, cut it out, will ya?

- Yeah? - Mr. Peppino.

- Okay.

Don peppino.

Mrs. Calidru wants to thank you

for the money and the flowers.

That was a good thing you do.

- What are you talkin' about? Forget it.

Listen, frank, you come to the funeral?

- Well, I don't know. - I got a heavy schedule.

I think you should come.

It's going to mean a lot to the family.

- Sure, I'll be there. What time?

- Five o'clock. 724 crotona.

- Okay. - Addio, frank, and grazie.

- So long.

- Frank. - Yeah?

- Why do you hang around with those old guys up there?

- Hmm, I don't know.

I like to hear the talk.

Remember what it was like before all this.

And they kinda remind me of pop,

the way he used to be.

- Yeah, but you get up there with them,

you start talkin' sigi and all that,

and I don't know you anymore.

- That bothers you?

- I just don't understand what you've got goin'

with them, that's all.

- Vinny, when we first come here from the old country,

you couldn't pitch pennies without which they say it's okay.

You think I'm kidding?

New York, Chicago, Miami, they was it.

The council, capos of everything.

You couldn't sit at the same table, not even pop.

And he was their number-one soldier.

They done a lot for me when pop got it.

You ask Pete.

- Dom says things aren't so good between you and the board.

- Huh?

- He says you've been objecting to a lot

of the new franchises and proposals.

- You know the kind of things they're comin' in with now?

I tell you about the last vote they make?

- Frank, the electronics thing is good.

If it's done slowly and carefully, we can't miss.

- Boy, I got another expert.

Oh, they talk big, but, vinny,

there's some things which is too big.

Like the government, for one.

- Frank, there's nothing too big,

not even the government.

Now, you can't keep operating out of a candy store!

- Candy store?

Aetna wholesale flowers,

garibaldi importing, Cara produce,

ginetta coal and oil.

What's this, peanuts?

This is a candy store operation?

- The board is going ahead on the electronics thing.

Now you gotta move with them,

or they're gonna move you.

And not next month or next year, but now!

Now do I have to draw you a picture?

- You don't have to do nothin' but what I tell you.

- Oh, that's great. That's just great.

Wonderful.

And all along, I had the dumb idea

we were doin' this together.

Okay, you wanna be I! Capo, fine, frank,

but I'm warnin' you, unless you-

- wait a minute.

- You warn me? - I'm warning you, frank,

you go with the new operations or you're out!

And if you decide it's gonna be out

or they decide for you,

don't ask me to put myself on the line for this!

I'm not gonna sit around here holding my breath

till everything blows!

No, siree, Charlie!

Those kind of dues I'm just not payin'!

Hey, speak English, will ya?

- This is america! - I talk like I want,

and you don't say nothin'!

I tell you, this ain't gonna work!

- Frank, frank, how do you know unless you try?

- I know.

30 years learning something,

you think you can tell me in five minutes.

- Nobody can tell you anything!

That's the trouble with you!

- You shut up! Pop's life to get this, and now mine!

What the hell do you know about it?

I was 18 years old when I had to make my first hit.

Yeah, had to! Because my name was ginetta!

While you were still suckin' on mama.

Your first holy communion,

I was fightin' one to 10 in dannemora.

And when you had your confirmation,

I was breakin' arms and legs to get this union.

What do you think, somebody give it to me?

Nobody spits here without I say so!

I kept this and made all the rest because I do it my way!

The way pop showed me, the right way!

- Pop, pop, pop. I'm tired of hearin' about pop!

- Pop was nothin'! - Oh, you...

- Oh, signore.

- Me and Pete, we had a couple.

- I ask you? Come on.

- Hey, look, I'm married 18 years.

How could it be you still look the same?

- Maybe 'cause you don't want to wear your glasses.

- Ah.

- You ask Vince for dinner tomorrow?

- I ain't seen him.

You know, I been busy.

Anyway, you can't talk to him.

I think he's nervous, you know,

about the baby comin' and...

- You call, huh?

- Sure, sure.

- What's the matter?

- Old, huh?

- At least 100. - You...

- Oh, francesco!

- Hey, how old was you when I first saw you

at the convent, huh?

- Shh, 18.

Yeah, you were skinny with pigtails.

You was kinda ugly.

Yeah, you was by the fountain with the nuns.

I watched you through the fence.

- I know.

- Hey, what do you think the first time you seen me, huh?

"Hey, that's some good-iookin' American sport."

- I think, "next time I see that crazy guy,

- I call the police." - Sure, so how come

every day same time you come to the fountain,

- you look around... - Me?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Look around, for you?

Oh my god!

- Yeah, big shot.

He comes to Italy to find a wife,

like you buy a horse or a chicken.

- Hey, if I don't come, what, huh? What are you gonna do?

You gonna stay there, become a nun, and say your rosaries?

- Oh, sure, sure, you're the only one who wants me.

- Well who are you gonna find in, uh, modrano?

Scibetta, the, uh, the shoemaker,

and fazzio, the, that fat street cleaner?

Jesus.

- Hey, hey, ida, ida, come on.

Hey, tell the truth, huh?

You really used to look for me, huh?

Ah.

Huh? Ah.

Didn't I tell you? Huh?

Yeah, you wasn't skinny, boy.

And you wasn't ugly. You was always the best.

Honest to god. Then, now, all the time.

- Oh. - Hey, come on,

speak English.

Come on. How long you been here, huh?

- Enghsh. - English, okay.

- Yeah.

Oh, what you think you got, some old Guinea here? Huh?

I give you 100 years old.

Huh? Hmm?

What's this? What's with this lousy thing?

Huh?

English. Huh?

- English. - Yeah.

Hmm? Hmm?

Hmm? Hmm?

Come here.

No more of that dago stuff.

Where do you think you are? It's america.

What do you think I brung you here for? Huh?

Gonna make a new rule right now.

No more Italian in the house.

Hey, you hear?

- Yes, frank. You make the rule.

- No more Italian. - Yeah.

No more Italian.

Everybody gonna speak English.

Carmela is. Vinny is.

Vinny speaks English good.

Ah.

Hmm? Everybody gonna speak English.

- Sasa. - He knew all the time,

and say nothing!

- Don francesco.

Now is a thing only you can do.

We all finish.

There's nothing no more, all right.

Our mama, the family is always alive.

You were only a kid,

When they get.

In two days, they kill 41 of us.

- I remember.

Because we tell Luciano hadonis to go to hell,

when they say we got to bring in these other people.

Kassel, Solomon, zwillaman, costello.

This Irish cake eater.

They say the mafia is finish.

And they want to make the syndicate.

And we say no. Mai.

In the family, the blood stay pure.

Palermo.

Caltanisetta.

Vizzini.

Mazzarino.

Corleone.

Riesi.

Menfi.

From the family of the 41.

So many years.

And now, once in a while, still, they come.

Don francesco, you know what they ask?

My son, Rafael.

You remember?

Turridu's brother.

- Giovanni. Giovanni.

- Your father, Don Antonio.

All these years, we sit and bite the tongue.

And now we know who give the names to Luciano.

And.

After 35 years, we know.

Listen.

There's nothing left for us but a box in the ground.

But before that, we are going to give

ia Santa mamma what we owe.

This debito. All these mouths say we are going to do it.

And it's not just for them.

For us, too.

You are going to give back I'onore.

You the strong one now.

In your hand, I put the order.

The one who give the names

is Dominick bertolo.

- Dom?

No.

- No! - I say yes!

Yes, and yes, again!

- But, he's in the family.

His daughter's married to my brother, vinny.

- Sasa.

- Before my brother, meme die,

he told me he was there

when Dominick bertolo gave all the names.

That's why I spit in his coffin.

It was Dominick bertolo!

- It's your duty.

You're with them now. All right.

But something is never finish.

You born, siciliano.

Like your father.

And this for bertolo,

so he know why.

- Two pounds, two pounds .25.

- What about 35?

- Frank.

- Well I figured maybe you was up.

- What's the matter?

- Uh, nothing. Can't I come and see you?

- Well, sure, sure. Come on in.

Hi, Emma.

What's the matter? What's wrong?

- For crying out loud, something have to be wrong?

I, I just come for a visit.

- Mm. Give me your coat.

- No. I'll only stay a few minutes.

Uh, hey, where is, uh, little Anthony?

- He's not awake yet.

- Oh.

Did the doctor tell you when, uh...

- Uh, any day now. I can't wait.

- Well you just take it easy.

Don't be in such a hurry.

I remember, when ida had carmela and my mom had this bum.

Oh!

I find this last night.

I think maybe you and Emma like to have it, huh?

- What is it?

- It's Vince, when he was a kid.

Hmm.

I take most of these. You never seen these, huh?

- No, wow. - Yeah, yeah.

Hmm? Him, three years old.

Hey.

You were a regular fatty, weren't you?

- Oh.

- And this one holding a chicken.

He was six or seven.

We used to go to the catskills every summer.

- Remember, vinny? - Mm-hmm.

- Hey. Look at that.

- Boy scout? - Yeah.

I sent him to the...

In Jersey, to the woods for two whole weeks.

It was, uh...

What do they call that, vinny?

- The jamboree. - Yeah, jamboree.

Look at that. The boots, the hunting knife.

- Who gave him that haircut?

- Honey, why don't you get some coffee?

- All right.

Can I keep these?

- Sure. I brung 'em for you.

Vince, we gotta cut it out.

I know, sometimes I don't listen.

I got a big mouth, but right now,

I feel like my brains is being squashed,

with the board, the lousy investigation.

But we work it out, you and me, huh, vinny?

There's enough things...

Plenty of things which is gonna try to hurt us,

without we gotta hurt each other.

Honest to god. What do you say?

- Well, of course, frank.

- You know, one thing, vinny, what you said about pops.

That ain't right. That's a sin.

- Oh, frank, I didn't mean what I said about pop.

You know that.

It's just that sometimes I get backed in a corner,

and I just...

- Yeah.

I wish you could've known him, vinny, the way he was.

He, he was the best.

Maybe I'm nothing, but not him and

why they knocked him off, just like that, just...

You don't know, vinny. I...

- Frank. What is it?

What's the matter?

- We're gonna work it out, vinny, you and me. Huh?

- Oh, sure! Of course, we are.

- Oh, listen, ida wanted me to ask you to come eat tomorrow.

You know, we ain't seen the kid, in a long time.

- Okay. Fine.

- You come, huh? - Mm-hmm.

Listen, frank, let me ask dom to come too, huh?

Maybe, maybe we can straighten a few things out.

- Yeah. Yeah, that's a good idea.

- You call him, huh? - Right.

- So, their new album is the best.

- Yeah, but it's not music.

It's just a lot of noise.

- Oh, you just don't know how to listen right.

- How can you listen?

You get deaf after half a minute.

- Oh, I don't care what anyone says.

I like it.

Listen to the teenybopper, pop.

Pretty soon she'll be wearin' a miniskirt.

- Sure. Why not?

- I don't think they make 'em

for people in your condition.

- Frank, what you say? Shall I get a miniskirt, too?

- Sure, I let my hair grow, take off my shoes,

I carry a flower, we have a regular circus, huh?

Oh!

- Rrring! Oh, excuse me.

Hello.

This is the ginetta residence. Frank speaking.

Anthony ginetta?

I'll see if he's here. Just a minute.

- Anthony ginetta? - Never heard of him.

- Who? - Who, what?

- Right? - Hey...

You Anthony ginetta? Yeah, he's here.

Oh, you wanna talk to him.

It's for you.

Hello?

- Hey, what's the matter?

Hello! Hello!

He hang up.

And another one like this guy!

- The next one's a girl.

You know it moves different?

With Anthony, he kicked like a mule for three months.

This is a girl. I can tell.

- Oh, you can tell, huh? - Yes, I can tell.

Listen, whose stomach is it in, yours or mine?

- Vince, I'm with you. - Another boy like this...

- Better it's a girl.

- What's the difference? - As long as it's healthy.

- Oh, pa, you're gonna hurt him.

- What, he's made of glass or something? Here.

- Leave him alone, frank.

- A moustache is good for the circulation. Ow.

Whoa!

- Hey, give me a hand. Hike!

- There you are. - Madonna!

Ida, it's a sin you cook like this.

- The chicken wasn't done enough.

- Listen to her. Can't move, I'm dying.

- Please, don't die. Open your belt.

- You know, it's funny, you eat, you eat,

you lose your appetite.

- Hey, a little anisette, huh? - Si.

- I'll take care of him. - Okay.

- Ida, listen.

I keep forgetting to get the recipe for that eggplant.

- Hey, carmela.

How come I never see you with the braids, no more?

- Oh, papa, I'm 17.

- Next month. - Oh, papa.

- 17. Big deal.

- You're a big girl, huh? - Yeah.

- Come here. Your mother wore braids until she was 21.

Here, sit down.

Hey, pop, look at this.

- Yeah. - What'd I tell you?

Ho chi minh wouldn't stand still.

- Yeah, those guys ain't kidding.

- Carmela! - Yes, mom?

- You know you got out just in time, vinny.

That's some place.

They got snakes over there,

one bite, you're dead.

Yeah, malaria. Who can live in those jungles?

- Who'd want it? - Carmela!

You forgot there's dishes?

- Hey, for crying out loud, carmela,

what are you always fooling around for?

You know you're supposed to help your mother.

- Me? - Yeah, you.

- Well, you're the one... - That's right, honey.

She's calling you.

- I'll make her come. Get in there.

- She's a hare-brained like an old man.

- There's a lot of work to be done.

- Well, it was his fault! - Oh, sure, sure.

You two get together, you forget about everything.

Now clear the table. I don't want to hear anything.

- Hey, dom, I hear you been touting vinny

to work on the new electronics operation.

- Who told you that?

- What's the difference? It's true?

- Yeah. I'm sponsoring him.

- How come you don't say nothing to me about it?

Huh?

How come you don't say nothing?

- Look, frank, I know how you feel about this thing,

but I've got a big chance here, and if you'd just-

- you got nothing.

Nothing. Understand?

- Frank, it ain't his fault. - You stay out, huh?

This is my house. I'm talking to my brother.

You been doing enough.

I wanna know if you understand.

Talking to you, vinny.

- Did you forget what I told you

in the office the other day?

- You never said you was going in this.

- You were told, frank, a hundred times.

A hundred ways.

But you're just not listening these days.

I said I'm not putting myself on the line for your action.

I said, the electronics thing made sense,

and I'm saying it again.

Now, I'm gonna button for them if they let me.

And dom is sponsoring. Okay?

- You and him, you got it all figured out,

the two of you, huh?

- Well, so what?

- I tell you so what. You ain't buttoning nothing.

Because that thing is gonna bust wide open,

and I ain't letting you go in.

- I am, frank, I am! - Now just forget about it.

- Now, get it through your head!

You think you can stay out of it and still call the shots?

How're you gonna fight them?

You don't like it, you want out, fine.

But you're not dragging me with you.

- You got guts, vinny, really guts to do this to me.

- Do what? - You sell me out.

- Nobody's sold you out! - You were voted down!

- This is how we gonna work it out, huh?

Well, I'm telling you now,

I'm not gonna let you do this, vinny.

- And, I'm telling you, I am.

Now just stop giving me orders.

If they say yes, frank, I move,

with dom and with them, whether you like it or not!

- The hell you are. - And you got nothing

to say about it!

It's the board's decision and mine!

- Oh, you.

Stop it!

- Oh! - Vince.

- Uh, come on, get him up. - Vince.

Come on. Come with daddy.

- Come on, let's get outta here.

- Vince... - You gonna

give me an argument?

Take the kid and move! Now!

- That's supposed to be your brother, frank.

You forget?

Frank.

- Don't say nothing. - Don't open your mouth.

You don't know what's going on here.

You just don't know, ida.

- L'onore mafiosa's finished a long time ago.

- What's the matter with you? You deaf?

Or you don't listen?

You forget what we used to be?

Dominick put the finger on pop.

I can forget that?

Neven

- yeah? - Don francesco?

- Don peppino?

- Don't forget. We are waiting.

You have a job to do.

We count on you.

- Sure.

- But you stay out of it.

Give somebody else the contract, huh?

- This I gotta do.

- They're gonna find out.

- They'll find out.

- And then?

- Then I take a little vacation in sicily.

- I'm with you, frank.

Anything you want.

- Frank, only use the fifth amendment if things get rough.

Now this Kessler wants you bad,

especially on the loans of union funds.

How are you fixed there?

Frank!

- All right. How many times I gotta tell you?

I arranged for a temporary loan

from my dock local to balance it for now.

- Okay.

Los Angeles has two good mechanics ready

in case there's any heavy work to be done.

Anything else?

Okay, now we have this thing with Vince to go over.

Dom?

Yeah. Uh...

First thing is, uh...

Everybody knows what's happened

with you and your brother, frank, and with me.

We all know.

And we gotta fix it up,

because this kind of thing is no good

for you and me and everybody.

Second thing is, I say we should let Vince button for us.

- Vince is out. That's how we're gonna fix it up.

- Frank, the nature of this decision affects everybody.

- That's right, sol. It affects everybody.

It affects me, too, huh?

So how come I gotta find out for myself?

- How come, huh? - Because I suggest

we don't say nothing until we see

what the hell you're gonna do next.

You think I wanna play these kind of games with you?

You think anybody here wants to?

We all gotta give you the special treatment.

We gotta keep our mouths shut,

because you still got it in your mind

you gonna do things your way, no matter what.

Hmm? My fault, from the beginning.

A bunch of baloney. Who are you, you should be so special?

We ain't playing bocce here, paisan.

- Wait a minute, dom.

We just can't start pushing each other around.

Frank, look at what you have now.

You get old, have your family,

clip your coupons, collect your rents.

No more running.

You pay your taxes, and you live safely. Why?

Because every decision is made on the basis

of more than the personal interests of just one man.

I don't know if you realise just where Vince would fit

and how important it would be

and the amount of money involved.

But, it is considerable.

Now, Dominick has suggested-

- Dominick. Dominick.

He's something, that guy.

He suggests, he recommends, he gives information.

He's the best in the world for that.

- That sigi don't understand nothing.

- This is my brother and I tell him what he can do.

- Now stop it. - Not you,

- you camorrista bastard! - Stop now, ginetta!

- I think we'd better vote on Vince.

- That's fine. You vote, you vote all you want.

But you ain't gettin' Vince.

Now this is for me to say.

I say no! No it's gonna be!

- Yeah, go ahead. Come on.

Key target of Kessler's crusade,

this frank ginetta, alleged cosa nostra leader

and union organiser.

Ginetta will be questioned in connection

with his activities in the policy rackets,

extortion, and labour manipulations throughout the east.

Now the Attorney General put it this way,

"it's about time the public took a long, hard look

at this patron Saint of the working class."

Kessler intends to review ginetta's arrests,

suspicion of grand theft,

suspicion of murder and assault with...

- Ain't you got homework to do?

- Papa, is it true?

What I got, another investigation here?

What do you believe, that or what you got here?

Who you believe?

I ask you. Huh?

- Oh, papa! Pop!

- Do your homework.

How's the eye?

- Okay.

Frank, I just don't understand

how you could blow it like that.

- Mm. Dominick told you already, huh?

- Dominick is your friend. - He's trying to help.

Those other guys are ready to throw you out.

Now you gotta listen to me. This is real trouble.

- Trouble. Hmm.

Trouble, he says.

Ah, vinny, you smart kid.

College, everything.

You don't understand nothing.

You got your action with the electronics thing.

- Yes, that's all set.

- Well, you do what you want from now on.

- What are you gonna do?

- It's funny. You're just like I was.

Don't listen to nobody, do what you want, tough.

Lousy thing is, you can't fight no more, vinny.

You're a piece of furniture.

The only thing now is the vote.

That's all. The vote, hmm.

Dom ain't taught you that part yet.

- What are you talkin' about?

- You know, in sicily, when we want to make the bull fat,

we take a knife and cut him

so he's no good no more with a cow.

He's no good for nothing.

He don't fight, just gets fat.

That's the vote, vinny.

- That's crazy.

- Crazy, huh? You'll find out.

- Frank.

- Just call dom, please. - Vinny, honest to god,

I'm really tired.

- Go home, huh? - Well, then I'll call him.

- What do you want from me?

- I want you to talk to him.

- Leave it go. Huh?

- We gotta do something.

Frank, please.

- All right.

Tomorrow, I talk to dom.

- You promise?

- Sure.

Sure, I promise.

Now, wait a minute. Let me say something.

- Well, you already said plenty. Too much.

- The boys are pretty mad, huh?

- What do you think?

- Dom, we gotta fix it up. - Oh, "we".

All of a sudden, now, it's "we".

- You're right. The kid's right.

That's the way we gotta go.

- Well, we'd better talk.

- Okay, let's talk.

- Hey, did you eat yet? - No.

- Listen, let's go up to scarpati's.

A little scampi, some clams.

We ain't done that in a long time, okay?

We eat, we straighten it out.

You're crazy.

- Come on, I'm hungry. - So am I.

One minute, I'm ready to give you a shot.

- The next minute... - Hey, Pete.

You know, dom, I can't figure it out.

What makes a guy do things?

You know, you get an idea in your head, it stays, it stays.

No matter what, you can't change it.

Yeah. I gotta change.

Solly said it. We can't push each other around.

Especially you and me. That's dumb.

It's really dumb. It's really dumb.

- That's the first right thing you said

in a long time, frank.

Hmm. Hey, drink?

Hmm?

Grazie.

- Salute.

- No.

- Hey Pete, I drink for you 'cause you're drivin', huh?

Hmm.

- Ah, sometimes I think, whatever happened

to all them years?

Mm. Ah.

These crazy things we did.

Hey, you remember benjy Miller? Hmm?

- No.

- Benjy Miller. Hey, Pete, you remember.

- Sure, from bensonhurst.

- Yeah. Had a contract on him I'll never forget.

He's the nervous type. You can't get near him.

He don't trust nobody.

So listen to this, dom.

I spent two weeks bein' his buddy.

We were hoppin' around to all the bars.

I'm springin' for drinks, tryin' to find

the best way to set him up.

Now all the while, I can't carry any iron,

because this one's really nervous.

At the end of two weeks, I'm in.

But really in.

He wants to take me home and fix me up with his sister.

That's how "in", huh?

- Yeah, yeah. - Get this.

It's all set up.

We walk out of a bar on Washington street, see?

We pass a bunch of people. Pete slips me the .38.

I keep walkin' my arm around him, jokin', iaughin'.

I get him around to the side of the pier, see?

I put the gun in his gut, pull the trigger,

and click, click, click.

Nothin'.

His eyes are buggin' out of his head look in' at me.

I start to laugh.

"Hey, you big gidrool, you see what a pushover you are?

What would've happened if I wasn't your friend, huh?"

"Oh, jeez, you're right," he says. "You're right.

I gotta be careful."

We go back to the bar. Get this, dom.

I'm in the toilet with a fork,

workin' on that lousy gun.

I'm goin' crazy.

I'm cursin', I'm sweatin'.

I get it fixed.

We walk out of the bar again.

Now I'm really in tight with him.

The same pier, right in the same spot.

And this time, bang, bang, bang!

Three big ones right where he breathes.

And you should've seen the look on his face, wah!

Oh, those were some times, huh? Jesus.

- You said it.

- Yeah, you know, I got,

jeez, 460 fish for that.

- Pfft, 20 years old. - Mm.

- Crazy. With those guys you could get for 100.

- Yeah. - 50.

- Cowboy you right in church if you wanted.

- A regular shooting gallery.

- Yeah, you never knew when you were fingered or what for.

A guy would rat on you for two cents.

- Yeah. - Remember?

- Oh, yeah. I remember.

- Yeah. So do I, fink.

- No.

- 41 of them.

Remember?

"Giovanni lippi."

"Franco lobello."

"Eduardo ruggerio."

"Rafaello Luca."

"Carlo Angelo."

"Benvenuto grisello."

"Guiseppi siragusa."

"Carmelo Pellegrino."

"Salvatore ricciardi."

"Gino pagano."

"Pasquale reina."

"Felipe mani."

"Franco balestera."

"Antonio ginetta."

"Umberto arrosa."

"Emilio paresi."

"Nicola callace."

- All right. Let's have a vote.

Hit.

Hit.

- Hit it is.

- He ain't gonna expect it from you.

We'll let you know when.

Maybe a month or two.

Get your passport.

The organisation thinks you deserve a chance

since you wasn't in on it.

Me personally, I'd get the both of you.

Don't goof, vinny boy.

You're on your own over there.

You get out after, okay.

You don't, tough.

Beat it.

Hey, Vince.

Watch yourself, sigi.

You're walkin' on glass.

You get that pig or you got funerals on the family plan.

- Vince? Sleep good?

- Yeah.

- Come on.

- Where we goin'?

- Let's go. Toto's waiting.

Ooh.

Grazie. Grazie.

Hey.

Hey, vinny.

This is your aunt.

Santa Ria.

I can't remember them all, but they're all relatives.

Everybody. Hey, look.

This is your second cousin Angelo.

He looks like you.

Vino! Hey, vino!

Vino!

Come on, Vince! The wine!

Hey.

Musica!

Go ahead, ida.

- You come, too.

- No.

- Fra ncesco.

- Vince, come with me.

I wanna show you something.

Vinny, see these olive trees?

I stole a whole sack when I was 13.

Jesus, pop came lookin' for me.

I hid under the bed all day.

They called me "riccotaru" then.

Then "picciotu".

You know how I felt the first time a capo called me mafiosu?

Jesus. Somebody with respect.

The word is like a rock.

Santa mamma. Omerta.

Old stuff in the states, but here, it's,

it's in the air, vinny.

The fruit tastes different here. It must be the dirt.

You don't know how good it is for me to come back.

This was pop's.

Nice, huh?

Cumpari alfonsu kept it.

Best grade, made in Belgium.

These we call.

To kill.

The wolf.

You know how long we been usin' this kind of gun?

When one of us is gonna get it,

it's gotta happen after wine

and eating with all the relations.

First food,

love,

then.

Quick. Capisce?

- Frank.

- Vinny, you gotta make the hit.

They got you by the throat.

Where you gonna go?

Emma? Your kids?

My carmi?

They got you.

Don't worry, vinny.

Everything's gonna be all right.

Toto will take you to palermo.

Ain't that funny?

Me like pop.

You like me.

Like we was all the same guy.

Ain't that funny?