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The Alto Knights

R·2025·123m

Crime

Drama

History

Crime

Drama

History

Summary

Two of New York's most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, vie for control of the city's streets. Once the best of friends, petty jealousies and a series of betrayals place them on a deadly collision course that will reshape the Mafia (and America) forever.

Cast

Robert De Niro

Vito Genovese / Frank Costello

Debra Messing

Bobbie Costello

Cosmo Jarvis

Vincent Gigante

Kathrine Narducci

Anna Genovese

Michael Rispoli

Albert Anastasia

Michael Adler

Senator Tobey

Ed Amatrudo

Rudolph Halley

Joe Bacino

Joe Profaci

Anthony J. Gallo

Tommy Lucchese

Wallace Langham

Senator Estes Kefauver

Louis Mustillo

Joe Bonanno

Frank Piccirillo

Richie Boiardo

Matt Servitto

George Wolf

Robert Uricola

Tony Bender

Belmont Cameli

Frankie Boy

Carrie Lazar

LT. Trooper

James Ciccone

Carlo Gambino

Bob Glouberman

Victor Riesel

Jeffrey Grover

Judge Liebowitz

Jean Zarzour

Elsa Anastasia

Derek Polen

Politician

Abi Van Andel

Judge Peggy Cooper

Zach Meiser

Trooper Vasisko

Dennis Craig Hensley

The Majestic Doorman

Gary Chinn

Doorman

Greg Siewny

Politician

D.J. Stroud

Push Cart Vendor

Sydney Miles

Young Bobby Costello

Joseph Moreland

Juror

Antonio Cipriano

Young Vito

Brian Scolaro

Paul Castellano

Noah Bain Garret

Abe Telvi

Bryant Carroll

Local Reporter #1 Divorce

Jean Claude Leuyer

Assassin

Robert Arce

Keith Norval

Luke Stanton Eddy

Young Frank

Steven Terry Walker

Judge (Angry)

Ashton Wolf

Emcee (Copa)

J. Barrett Cooper

Doctor #2

Wynn Reichert

Doctor #1

Seve Esposito

Joe Bonano Jr.

Rich Williams

Walter Hawley

Christine McBurney

Trish Hawley

Todd Covert

Edwin Barry - Defense Attorney

Mike Seely

Sheriff Crosswell

Robert Gerding

Judge

Amadeo Fusca

Lucky Luciano

Jennie Malone

Copa Nightclub Patron

Robert DiDonato

Edward Guinan

John Dinello

Joe Barbara

Bret Aaron Knower

Driver

James P. Harkins

Detective Jim Mullins

Louie Lawless

Joe the Boss

Wilson Conkwright

Busboy

Curtis Murphy

Shoe Shine Boy

Apollo Bacala

Mover

David Vegh

Warden

Tony Scott Griffith

Shoe Shine Customer

Damian Tanenbaum

Bailiff

Ed Formica

Judge Bentley Morris

Mark Tierno

Juror #1

Jen Ryan

Spectator

Michael T. Davis

Local News Reporter

Mark Axelowitz

Asst District Attorney Kamen

Carl Centofanti

Federal Agent

David Pittinger

Radio Staff

William Cross

Federal Agent

Seth Adair

Driver

Richard Doone

Juror

Shantel Routt

Bessie Smith

Brian D. Schroeder

Nightclub Patron

Frank Cervone

Shopkeeper #1

Sammy Geroulis

Driver

Mark Angel

Senate Probe Hearing

Kevin W. Shiveley

Police Officer

Andy Knode

TV Anchor

Sam Armentrout

Police Officer

Glenn Cunningham

Sgt. Ralph Salerno

Logan Moore

Politician's Wife

Jerry Pope

Bodyguard

Taylor Scott Knight

Baker

Richie Root

Photographer

Kalub James Mills

Journalist

Bill Bower

Spectator

John V. Catalano

Self - Vito Dinner Party Guest

Vincent P. Catalano

Vito (Party Guest)

James M. Daria

Copa Nightclub Patron

Andrew Philpot

Pedestrian

Todd Wallrauch

Paralegal

Jimmy Petrolla

Mob Boss

Mike Schenke

Police Officer

Joshua Innerst

Reporter #1

Charlie Powers

Senator's Aide

Shawn Peavie

Doctor

Chris Borghese

Photographer

Michael Moses

Roof Murder Victim

Corey Daria

Mover

Steve Molla

Reporter

Jerome Agean

Mob Boss (uncredited)

Melissa McDermott Currin

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Max Daniels

Anna's Ex Husband (uncredited)

Annie Elliott

Copa Cigarette Girl (uncredited)

Ron Gorley

Copa Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Karen Koester

Copa Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Bobby Leigh

Man on Street (uncredited)

Nabeel Mulla

Mob Driver (uncredited)

Roger Petan

Radio Staffer #1 (uncredited)

David C. Phillippi

Courtroom Lawyer (uncredited)

Jarrod Robbins

Bartender (uncredited)

Peyton Stockdale

Joe Barbara Jr.

Richie Verito

Undercover Federal Agent (uncredited)

Crew

Director

Barry Levinson

Writer

Nicholas Pileggi

Reviews

Geronimo1967

March 26, 2025

After mob boss Vito (Robert De Niro with loads of facial prosthetics) gets into a scrape with the authorities, he has to flee the USA and leave his childhood friend and business partner Frank (Robert De Niro without augmentation) in charge of things. Many years go by and the latter makes a success of the post prohibition business, avoiding the narcotics industry and keeping the peace amongst the other families that control the boroughs of New York. Then Vito decides he wants to come home and resume his position at the top of the tree, but being quite a loose cannon finds that Frank and just about everyone else isn’t so keen on that proposal. True to form, Vito decides to make his presence felt and things start to become pretty precarious for Frank. That only gets more serious when the Feds and the US Senate decide to conduct a crackdown on the burgeoning drugs trade that Vito is seeing as a future way to make millions of dollars. In the end, Frank is going to have to make some tough decisions. Now, aside from the skills of the make-up artists who have managed to make one De Niro look authentic and the other like someone from a Jim Henson movie, the rest of this is a pretty poorly paced and shallow gangster movie with a great deal of chatting and virtually no action aside from the opening scene and a very messy haircut later on. His solution is, historically, quite quirky but the rest of this is procedural and I thought really rather dull as it bounces us around the timelines of their lives, loves and fairly ruthless business tactics before rushing us through who did what to whom as the story rather fizzles out. It’s all a pretty weak style over substance exercise that sees it’s lacklustre star woodenly going through the motions leading a supporting cast that adds very little to the whole thing as it lumbers along stylishly, but unremarkably. Nobody’s finest work, sorry.