Vendetta
"Threats. Intimidation. Murder. His way is the only way."
Cast & Crew
Christopher Walken
as James Houston
Pierrino Mascarino
as Antonio Marchesi
Luke Askew
as William Parkerson
Clancy Brown
as Chief Hennessy
Andrew Connolly
as Sheriff Bill Villere
Alessandro Colla
as Gaspare Marchesi
Bruce Davison
as Thomas Semmes
Joaquim de Almeida
as Joseph Macheca
Andrea Di Stefano
as Vincent Provenzano
Nicholas Meyer
Director
Overview
Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the 1890's. After the Chief of Police was brutally murdered, much of the city's Sicilian population was rounded up and brought in for questioning. Eventually, thirteen were formally tried for murder and nine went to trial, and while they were acquitted, a series of brutal lynchings showed they had as much to fear from the city's general populace as they did from the corrupt police force.
