Another clever little touch in the movie:
When Hoffa anoints Fitzsimmons at a Teamsters convention in Miami, the scene opens with an aerial view of the city. The music that plays is "Melancholy Serenade," which was the theme from "The Jackie Gleason Show." Gleason relocated to Miami toward the end of his career.
Loved it, TB. I picked that right up.
I knew you would, PB. "And a-wa-a-a-a-y we go!"
It's a shame that probably most young people don't recognize that music and thus can't understand it's role in the movie. As Frank narrates during the film, most young people today don't even know the name Jimmy Hoffa let alone his role in American (and Mob) history. For many of we Board members, as soon as we heard In the Still of the Night in the opening scene, we understood time, place, and subject. So, so cool.
