Murder Machine would, quite literally be a killer movie!

I think a film about Ray Flynn blowing his way to leadership of the Local 42 Union in St.Louis would also be a great story.

Mad Dog Joe Sullivan the Irish hitman caught between the wr for the building contracts of Manhattan's West Side would make a blockbuster smash too.

Hopefully a De Meo film would touch on this but the whole saga would be interesting given Spillane's spirited stand and the levels of paranoia in the hood at the time. Mad Dog Joe Sullivan confiding in Featherstone, Coonan thinking of taking out Fat Tony Salerno and his right hand man John Sullivan ochestating all the maneuvers for control of the West Side contracts.

We know what happened after but what preceded Jimmy coonan's rise to power was the most interesting time for the West Side rackets. Nobody trusted nobody, bodies were piling up, loan sharks were disappearing and everybody suspected everybody else, not knowing when they were goning to be next in the firing line.

1. Columbo War
2. Luchese's starting with "Tony Ducks" last few years and the decline with Gas/Vic.
3. Carlo Gambino
4. Carmine Galante

colombo war
family secrets
philly with scarfo

When you think about it there's still plenty of stuff to make a good film on.

I'm with you 123... I think there's a wealth of material from actual events, to character studies, to family histories... it's just how you want to scope it.

There could b so many good ones.id love to see soothing on toto riina,Tommy pitera, the mafia cops and gaspipe.the last Colombo war or 1just on scarp.hell he was gonna kill kkk members for the fbi.even something on the a, b, c wars

You know what else would be good a movie on mad dog Sullivan and the greek frankos.I heard a movies being made on frank sheeran that should b really good

Mark Wahlberg bought the rights to adapt "When Corruption Was King" with him playing Cooley, and Gandolfini (rumoured) to be playing M.D'Amico.

Also, Calabrese, Jr just sold the rights to Operation Fam Secrets to Dreamworks (I think?)

Those should both be good, but I won't get my hopes up. Chicago culture is lost on ppl that don't live here