And for that, we can thank the notorious mobster, Vito Genovese. You got a problem with that? Genovese, the self-made gangster who made a ton of money running rackets in New York, was flush with ...

Franke Costello and Vito Genovese were a partnership born amidst the flurry of Prohibition that devolved into a vicious rivalry when a power vacuum opened up within the New York crime scene.

Directed by Barry Levinson, the movie The Alto Knights shows Robert De Niro playing mob bosses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, whose friendship fades as they wage a brutal war with each other ...

Written by Goodfellas screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, The Alto Knights is inspired by the true story of the rivalry between Frank Costello and Vito Genovese—big names in organized crime in New ...

Now, he plays a pair of wise guys. In “The Alto Knights,” DeNiro plays not one, but two infamous mobsters: Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, a pair of mafia leaders who grew to power in tandem ...

In the other corner: Vito Genovese, Costello’s childhood friend and fellow racketeer, who had to leave town long ago because of a thing, and has now come home to resume his place in the Mafia ...

I thought this movie was brilliant... A tour de force for Robert DeNiro... Some are to quick to say a movie is a bomb because ...

“You’re the actor!” shouts Anna Genovese at her estranged spouse, gangster Vito Genovese, in a courtroom where he’s implausibly claiming he lacks funds to support her. “The best actor in ...

The Alto Knights is a crime thriller based on a true story starring Robert De Niro in dual roles as rival 1950s underworld leaders, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese. The film, directed by Barry ...

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Robert De Niro as Vito Genovese, left, and Robert De Niro as Frank Costello in a scene from "The Alto Knights." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP ...

Because the man playing Vito in “The Alto Knights” is none other than Robert De Niro, indeed one of the best actors in the world, revered in our time as Gable was in his.