Vendetta

Overview

Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the 1890's. After the Chief of Police was brutally murdered, much of the city's Sicilian population was rounded up and brought in for questioning. Eventually, thirteen were formally tried for murder and nine went to trial, and while they were acquitted, a series of brutal lynchings showed they had as much to fear from the city's general populace as they did from the corrupt police force.

Directed by Nicholas Meyer

Top cast

Christopher Walken

James Houston

Pierrino Mascarino

Antonio Marchesi

Luke Askew

William Parkerson

Clancy Brown

Chief Hennessy

Andrew Connolly

Sheriff Bill Villere

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Alessandro Colla

Gaspare Marchesi

Bruce Davison

Thomas Semmes

Joaquim de Almeida

Joseph Macheca

Andrea Di Stefano

Vincent Provenzano

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Megan McChesney

Megan O'Brien

Edward Herrmann

D.A. Luzenberg

Richard Libertini

Giovanni Provenzano

George Martin

Judge Baker

Daragh O'Malley

Dominic O'Malley

Kenneth Welsh

Mayor Joe Shakspeare

Amanda Brugel

Red Lantern Lady

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