The Valachi Papers (film)

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The Valachi Papers is a 1972 biographical crime film directed by Terence Young, which tells the story of Joseph Valachi, an American Mafia informant in the early 1960s who was the first-ever mafioso to acknowledge the organization's existence. The film stars Charles Bronson as Valachi and Lino Ventura as Vito Genovese, along with Jill Ireland, Walter Chiari, Joseph Wiseman, and Gerald S. O'Loughlin. It is an adaptation of the 1968 non-fiction book by Peter Maas, with a screenplay by Stephen Geller. The film was an international co-production between the Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis and the French company Euro-France Films. It premiered on July 21, 1972, in Ireland. The Valachi Papers was a commercial success, but received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics, many of whom negatively compared it to The Godfather.

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