The following article is reprinted from the book T...  ...and Jaffe abandoned the idea of a “quickie mobster flick,” increased The Godfather’s bud...  ...;too Italian” to play the son of a Sicilian mobster , the executives argued. Dustin Hoffman was intere...  ...uo;five families” t...

The 1972 film The Godfather was nominated for elev...  ...mount promoted The Godfather as the first Italian mob drama made by Italians, but some Italians were of...  ...of The Godfather includes a short history of that mob war, and how the real-life mobsters came around to the...

Mobster turned witness turned tour guide Frank Cullotta w...  ...of it, Wilber Clark, runs out of money. In comes [ mobster ] Moe Dalitz and the Mayfield Road Gang from Cleve...  ...— at this point — a proliferation of mob ownership and investment. Throw in that in N...

With the recent capture of legendary mobster Whitey Bulger many people are reminiscing about s...  ...e biggest mafia conspiracies. Everything from the mob code to a mob language. Let’s just hope that any of the consp...

Warning: this Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss contains spoilers, in case you haven't seen the movie Goodfellas in the past twenty years. You probably wouldn't be able to answer the questions anyway if you haven't seen...