loosely focus on lucanio life in italy and this movie combine element of documentary and gangster flick and political movie . a reality component be add to the movie by charles siragusa play himself a prosecutor of luciano . in the real world siragusa fail to prove luciano involvement in drug trafficking from sicily into the u . and in this movie he seem to put an effort into use the result of his work to render luciano role in the business . in the first half of the movie there be an extended sequence about vito genovese time in italy something that seem completely disconnect from the rest of the plot and no hint be give about his actual connection to luciano and his role in the gene giannini hit show later in the movie . thing may be very confuse for viewer who doesn not know the biography of people like luciano and vito genovese and joe pagano and meyer lansky and other mobster a the movie constantly jump between different period of time and place and people without explain their interconnection . so that be inform on those character should be necessary to understand what this movie be about . for the whole time character be elaborate very well and portray in a humanistic way support by the brilliant soundtrack compose of a couple of 50ies jazz tune and absolute top level cinematography . the performance deliver by volonte a lucky luciano and rod steiger a gene giannini be on a level that remain to be see in other movie . culminate in the gene giannini hit where the atmosphere reach a level of stun dramatical density .