This is as much the Scorsese of Silence as of Wolf of Wall Street.Īnd yet. The busy wipes, lively zooms and fast cuts that characterised the earlier gangster flicks are not on display. Never hurrying his way through Steven Zaillian’s zesty screenplay, Scorsese allows the action to unfold in lengthy takes with sober cameras.
He rubbed up against many of the era’s most significant bruisers.
Frank remembers how, after serving in the second World War, he worked as a truck driver and, evading charges of pilfering, was edged towards deadly work for the Pennsylvanian Bufalino family.