The Alto Knights is a crime thriller based on a true story starring Robert De Niro in dual roles as rival 1950s underworld leaders, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese.

Now, he plays a pair of wise guys. In “The Alto Knights,” DeNiro plays not one, but two infamous mobsters: Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, a pair of mafia leaders who grew to power in tandem ...

Now, he plays a pair of wise guys. In “The Alto Knights,” DeNiro plays not one, but two infamous mobsters: Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, a pair of mafia leaders who grew to power in tandem ...

Frank Costello was born Francesco Castiglia on ... Roughly six years and 250 kilometers away, Vito Genovese was born in the province of Naples on November 21, 1897. Costello came to the United ...

Read the true story behind the movie The Alto Knights, starring Robert De Niro in the dual role of two 1950s mob bosses - Frank Costello and Vito Genovese. Alec Baldwin's wife snaps at him on the ...

De Niro plays Luciano crime family boss Frank Costello as a pragmatic ... in the film is … Robert De Niro, as Costello’s lifelong friend Vito Genovese. Warner Bros. presents a film directed ...

The film stars Robert De Niro in a dual role, portraying two notorious mafia bosses, Vito Genovese and Frank Costello. The movie, directed by Barry Levinson and written by Nicholas Pileggi ...

Robert De Niro stars opposite himself in The Alto Knights, a mafia drama based on a true story. It follows the power struggle ...

Vito Genovese’s throbbing resentment toward Costello went back nearly three decades, according to author Tony DeStefano, who wrote the 2018 book Top Hoodlum: Frank Costello Prime Minister of The Mafia ...

Here’s a look at how The Alto Knights tells the dramatic story of Frank Costello and Vito Genovese. TIME talked to two experts on the mobsters, Tony DeStefano, author of The Deadly Don: Vito Genovese, ...

De Niro seems to be having fun playing both Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, but the movie around his double performance is a chore to watch. From the moment it starts, Levinson’s first ...