Broke and facing prison, Danny pleads to lesser charges in return for becoming an FBI informant and being banned for life from organized labor. Cleveland police detective Joe Manditski, who grew up with Danny in Collinwood, arrests him. He improves the working conditions at the docks and starts doing business with Nardi.ĭanny's own corruption as union president is revealed in an exposé by the local newspaper. He kicks Merke out of his office, and is elected local union president. Danny provokes Buka into a fist fight and beats him unconscious. Merke finds out, demands a cut of Danny's profits, and sends his enforcer Joe Buka to kill him. In return for Sneperger's debt being forgiven, Danny supplies Nardi with goods stolen from the docks. Sneperger's gambling leaves him in a huge debt with Cleveland Mafia captain John Nardi. The members are exploited by corrupt labor union boss Jerry Merke, and the leadership of the ILA union urges Danny to run against him. In 1960, Danny Greene and his childhood friends Billy McComber and Art Sneperger are longshoremen on the Cleveland docks. ( November 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Kill the Irishman grossed $1,188,194 at the domestic box office, against a production budget of $12 million. The film received mixed reviews upon its release, with some reviewers criticizing the purported similarities to Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas. Most of the cast, including Stevenson and D'Onofrio, were in attendance as was Shondor Birns' niece. Kill the Irishman was released in the United States on Maand premiered at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema in New York City. Greene's death ultimately led to the demise of the Cleveland Mafia. After many failed attempts on Greene's life, he was assassinated on October 6, 1977, by contract killer Ray Ferritto. After his conviction, Greene rose through the criminal underworld in Cleveland and waged war on the Mafia for control of the city. In 1964, he was convicted of embezzling $11,500 of the union's funds. He worked as a longshoreman on the Cleveland docks, until being chosen to serve as interim president of the International Longshoremen's Association in 1961. The film chronicles the rise and fall of Danny Greene. Production commenced in 2009, and filming took place in and around Detroit.
īefore entering production, Kill the Irishman had a troubled development stage that lasted over a decade. Written by Hensleigh and Jeremy Walters, it is based on the life of the Irish-American gangster Danny Greene, and was adapted from the book To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia by Rick Porrello. Kill the Irishman is a 2011 American biographical crime film directed by Jonathan Hensleigh, and starring Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Christopher Walken, and Val Kilmer.
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