***SPOILERS*** Extremely violent mobster movie staring in one of his few, if not only, leading roles the zombie like and ice water for blood Henry Silva as Sicilian gangster Johnn Cool. Johnny is a man on a mission who's job it is to repay those who put his mentor the real Johnny Cool Johnny Colini, Marc Lawrence, out of business by having him deported, with the help of the US Justice Department, back to his native Italy.
Arriving in New York City Johnny gets down to business in letting out the word that he's there to put the mob out of business and going about it in the most brutal like fashion. What turned out to be the "Achilles Heel" in Johnny's plan was his involvement with pretty Scarsdale New York divorcée Darien Guinness, Elizabeth Montgmery. Darien fell madly in love with Johnny after seeing him in action, breaking heads, in a swanky New York City bar that she got so stuck up on him that it in the end effected his ability do do his job.
***SPOILERS****It was after Johnny's next to last hit of mobbed up oil man Lennart Crandall, Brad Dexter, that Darien lost her nerve when the rented car,in her name, was ticketed by an L.A policeman. With Darien knowing that the car, which had explosive material in it, would lead to her arrest in the Crandell murder she quickly changed her mind about Johnny and, in order to save her own neck, ratted him out to the police. This also lead to Johnny's enemies in the Mafia to set him up him up in a secret meeting he was to have with Darien at a local New York City restaurant. That's after Johnny posing as a window washer got to knock off Mr. Big himself mob boss Vince Satangelo,Telly Savalas,in a high rise building assassin!
Released at the very time of the notorious Joe Valachi hearings before congress on the Mafia's grip on US politics and local police departments the movie was a forerunner to much more popular and bigger gangster films like "The Godfather" and "Valachi Papers" that were released some ten years later. There's also in the film co produced by Rat Pack member Peter Lawford members of the famous Rat Pack of the late 1950's and early 1960's Sammy Davis Jr as someone called "Educated" an exert mob controlled crap shooter and Joey Bishop as Holmes a sleazy as they come L.A TV used car salesman. The movie also has in it as comedy relief a Rodney Dangerfield, before anybody ever heard of him, look and talk alike Hank Henry as Las Vegas bus driver Larry.
Arriving in New York City Johnny gets down to business in letting out the word that he's there to put the mob out of business and going about it in the most brutal like fashion. What turned out to be the "Achilles Heel" in Johnny's plan was his involvement with pretty Scarsdale New York divorcée Darien Guinness, Elizabeth Montgmery. Darien fell madly in love with Johnny after seeing him in action, breaking heads, in a swanky New York City bar that she got so stuck up on him that it in the end effected his ability do do his job.
***SPOILERS****It was after Johnny's next to last hit of mobbed up oil man Lennart Crandall, Brad Dexter, that Darien lost her nerve when the rented car,in her name, was ticketed by an L.A policeman. With Darien knowing that the car, which had explosive material in it, would lead to her arrest in the Crandell murder she quickly changed her mind about Johnny and, in order to save her own neck, ratted him out to the police. This also lead to Johnny's enemies in the Mafia to set him up him up in a secret meeting he was to have with Darien at a local New York City restaurant. That's after Johnny posing as a window washer got to knock off Mr. Big himself mob boss Vince Satangelo,Telly Savalas,in a high rise building assassin!
Released at the very time of the notorious Joe Valachi hearings before congress on the Mafia's grip on US politics and local police departments the movie was a forerunner to much more popular and bigger gangster films like "The Godfather" and "Valachi Papers" that were released some ten years later. There's also in the film co produced by Rat Pack member Peter Lawford members of the famous Rat Pack of the late 1950's and early 1960's Sammy Davis Jr as someone called "Educated" an exert mob controlled crap shooter and Joey Bishop as Holmes a sleazy as they come L.A TV used car salesman. The movie also has in it as comedy relief a Rodney Dangerfield, before anybody ever heard of him, look and talk alike Hank Henry as Las Vegas bus driver Larry.