Crazy Joe The Blond Gallo and his brothers Kid Blast and Larry left behind a hefty movie legacy.
The Gallo Wars of the late fifties and early sixties rocked the Profaci family.
City gangsters went to the mattresses.
Joe Gallo was shot on his birthday at Umbertos Clam House by Frank The Irishman Sheeran.
To the day he died Orbach remained tight-lipped about what happened on Gallos last night.
The Gang That Couldnt Shoot Straightwas directed by James Gladstone in 1971.
Gladstone came from TV.
De Niro was cast in a small part inThe Godfather.
Had he been used, though, he probably wouldnt have been eligible to play Vito Corleone inII.
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Jerry Orbach played Kid Sally.
Angela was played by Leigh Taylor-Young, probably best known as Shirl, the furniture girl inSoylent Green.
BeforeGangshed been on Peyton Place and married her co-star, Ryan ONeal.
She took a break from acting to raise their son.
She is an ordained minister in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, which sometimes battles cult charges.
The movie cast other veteran actors.
She also won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1955 for playing James Deans estranged mother inEast of Eden.
On TV she did Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Thriller, Bonanza and The Wild Wild West.
This led to him ultimately being blacklisted.
He testified I am not a dupe, or a dope, or a moe, or a schmoe.
Joseph Campanellas brother Frank played Water Buffalo.
He had been acting since playing Mook the Moon-Man in 1949s sci-fi seriesCaptain Video and His Video Rangers.
Frank Campanella helped De Niro learn Sicilian to play Vito Corleone inThe Godfather: Part II.
Herves voice was dubbed by Paul Frees.
Philip Sterling, who played District Attorney Goodman, was a jazz pianist before becoming an actor.
Jack Kehoe plays a bartender who slips Baccalas men a mickey.
Dorothi Fox has a cameo as a meter maid and Fran Stevens also has a cameo as Baccalas wife.
The Gang That Couldnt Shoot Straightis about Kid Sally Palumbos crew.
Baccala lets Kid Sally run DeLaurios six-day Bike race at Brooklyns 532ndArmory.
Hes a smart-ass wop who loves everything about America.
The race gets cancelled and a riot breaks out.
Baccala is unhappy and demotes Palumbo to chauffeur.
Mario decides to stay in America and steals priestly garments for a charity con.
Angela sets him up in a $75 a month dive apartment in Alphabet City.
Big Mama advises Palumbos crew to go out to Ocean Parkway and kill Baccalas underboss, Water Buffalo.
But the hit didnt make the papers and a murder aint in the Daily News aint no murder.
Water Buffalo gets his revenge.
The gang tries another hit.
Killing through construction demolition is supposed to be as easy as changing the channel on TV.
Each assassin from the Palumbo crew winds up whacking themselves.
The police sweat the Palumbo crew and family for information, including Angela who runs to Mario for comfort.
One of Palumbos crew fingers Mario as a sham priest whos gotten close to Baccala.
Kid Sally tells him, You meet.
They crew plots a kidnapping while Mario is absolutely giving Baccala absolution.
Kid Sally tries to shoot Baccala but the gun blows up in his hand.
Baccala thinks this is a miracle.
They throw his body off the Verrazano Bridge, but it lands on a barge.
The DAs office stages a bust for the TV cameras, delaying the raid until Channel 7 shows up.
They link the sister to student violence.
Mario refuses to testify against Angela and gets deported.
Angela frees the lion to roam the streets of Brooklyn.
Baccala and his wife get it in a car.
Palumbo pleads guilty to conspiracy to murder Brooklyn.
No one ever accusedThe Gang That Couldnt Shoot Straightof being a great film, or even a good film.
Joey Gallos gang thought it was so unfunny they vowed revenge.
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