Originally posted by Tony Mosrite:
the topic says greatest gangsters and I think the one who better fits in this description is Charlie Lucky Luciano, but maybe the most succesful were Carlo Gambino or Frank Costello.
Another thing: Turnbull talked about the real mobsters who inspired Vito Corleone and Hyman Roth. another exemple of it IMO is John Gotti as the inspiration of Joey Zasa. does anyone agree with me?
Yes Joey Zasa is based on John Gotti because joey is at the cover of time also. joey is also known a best dressed gangster.
But he also based on Joe Colombo. Joe was also much in the publicity and was also killed on an American-italian holiday/party. He was killed because of the much attention he got, he was killed in order of Gambino
