Vendetta is a 1999 HBO original movie based on actual events that took place in New Orleans on March 14, 1891.
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Directed by | Nicholas Meyer |
Produced by | Gary Lucchesi Sue Jett Tony Mark |
Written by | Richard Gambino (book) Timothy Prager (teleplay) |
Starring | Christopher Walken Luke Askew Clancy Brown Alessandro Colla Andrew Connolly Bruce Davison |
Music by | John Altman |
Cinematography | David Franco |
Edited by | Ronald Roose |
Production company | HBO Pictures |
Distributed by | Home Box Office |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Screenplay
Nineteen Italian-Americans were accused of the murder of the police chief. After their acquittal, eleven of them were shot or hanged in one of the largest mass lynchings in American history.
- Christopher Walken as James Houston
- Luke Askew as William Parkerson
- Clancy Brown as Chief Hennessy
- Alessandro Colla as Gaspare Marchesi
- Andrew Connolly as Sheriff Bill Villere
- Bruce Davison as Thomas Semmes
- Joaquim de Almeida as Joseph Macheca
- Andrea Di Stefano as Vincent Provenzano
- Edward Herrmann as D.A. Luzenberg
- Richard Libertini as Giovanni Provenzano
- George N. Martin as Judge Joshua G. Baker
- Pierrino Mascarino as Antonio Marchesi
- Daragh O'Malley as Dominic O'Malley
- Kenneth Welsh as Mayor Joseph Shakspeare
- Gerry Mendicino as Charles Mantranga
- Frank Crudele as Angelo Bagnetto
- Vincent Marino as Pietro Monasterio
- Louis Di Bianco as Emmanuel Polizzi
- Peter Didiano as Bastian Incompara
- Giuseppe Tancredi as Umberto Scaffidi
- Megan McChesney as Megan O'Brien
- Stuart Stone as Tony Provenzano
- Nigel Shawn Williams as Samuel Foster
- Anna Mancini as Francesca Marchesi
- Tony Mark as Mayor's Assistant
- Conrad Dunn as Pasquale Corte
- Ian Downie as Priest
- Ron White as Robert Collins
- Jack Newman as Jacob Seligman
- Jack Jessop as William Yochum
- Wayne Robson as Frank Peeter
- Delores Etienne as Emma Thomas
- Joel Gordon as William
- Victor Ertmanis as John Duare
- Richard Blackburn as Warden Davis
- Holly Dennison as Miss O'Brian
- Herbert Johnson as Houston's Servant
- John Healy as Construction Foreman
- James Bearden as Governor Francis T. Nicholls
Writing
The teleplay by Timothy Prager is based on Richard Gambino's book, Vendetta: The True Story of the Largest Lynching in U.S. History (ISBN 1550711032).