Vendetta (1999 film)

Vendetta

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
Distributed by	Home Box Office
Release dates	July 3, 1999 (1999-07-03)
Running time	117 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Vendetta is a 1999 HBO original movie based on actual events that took place in New Orleans on March 14, 1891.^[1] 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.

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).

Cast

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

References

↑ "Vendetta". The New York Times.

External links

Vendetta at the Internet Movie Database
Vendetta at AllMovie
Time Warner press release

Works by Nicholas Meyer

Films

Director	Time After Time (1979) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) The Day After (1983) Volunteers (1985) The Deceivers (1988) Company Business (1991) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) Vendetta (1999)

Writer only	Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973) The Night That Panicked America (1975) The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1984) Sommersby (1993) The Informant (1997) The Prince of Egypt (1998) The Human Stain (2003) Elegy (2008) The Hessen Affair (2009) Houdini (2014)

Books

Lynching in the United States

General	Lynching Lynching in the United States Indiana White Caps Jim Crow laws Ku Klux Klan Nadir of American race relations

Anti-lynching movement	Anti-lynching movement American Crusade Against Lynching Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill N.A.A.C.P. Ida B. Wells "Strange Fruit" Flag Salute

Other	James Allen (collector) The Ox-Bow Incident The United States of Lyncherdom (Twain) Vendetta (1999 film) "And you are lynching Negroes!"

Categories	Lynching in the United States Lynching deaths in the United States American anti-lynching activists

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