"Alto Knights" refers to a real-life "social club" in New York's Little Italy. In this sense, Alto can mean high, tall or ...

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Debra Messing, writer Nicholas Pileggi and producer Irwin Winkler spoke with UPI about their research into the Costello ...

In “The Alto Knights,” DeNiro plays not one, but two infamous mobsters: Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, a pair of mafia ...

The great veteran of Mafia roles, cast as the rival bosses Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, anchors Barry Levinson’s ...

In 1931, following decades of turf warfare, Brooklyn bootlegger Salvatore Maranzano established the leaders of New York ...

Nicholas Pileggi and Barry Levinson team up for a classic gangster tale in "The Alto Knights," but even double De Niro can't ...

Named after a New York social club frequented in the 1950s by the Luciano ... growing up on mean streets that prepped them to ...

Robert De Niro as both Vito Genovese and Frank Costello The Alto Knights Credit - Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures “It can ...