"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
I always found it interesting that in this film Frank Nitti, an Italian Chicago gangster, has a southern accent. Just another example of the Hollywood liberal meme that you make the villian a southern white male.
HMN: It's interesting that you should mention the southern accent; I was wondering about that, too. I looked up Nitti on the internet and, sure enough, he was born in Italy and immigrated to Brooklyn at an early age.
The other thing I found out about him was that he has to be one of the most incompetent suicides on record. Contrary to the Untouchables, Nitti wasn't thrown off a building. In 1943, facing a prison term, he decided to do himself in. He fired at his own head three times before he finally succeeded in turning himself off. Here's how it happened, according to a couple of eyewitnesses.
I always found it interesting that in this film Frank Nitti, an Italian Chicago gangster, has a southern accent. Just another example of the Hollywood liberal meme that you make the villian a southern white male.
ReplyDeletePity about the car.
ReplyDeleteHMN: It's interesting that you should mention the southern accent; I was wondering about that, too. I looked up Nitti on the internet and, sure enough, he was born in Italy and immigrated to Brooklyn at an early age.
ReplyDeleteThe other thing I found out about him was that he has to be one of the most incompetent suicides on record. Contrary to the Untouchables, Nitti wasn't thrown off a building. In 1943, facing a prison term, he decided to do himself in. He fired at his own head three times before he finally succeeded in turning himself off. Here's how it happened, according to a couple of eyewitnesses.