| MANY MOURN GANGSTER Funeral of American gangster Lucky Luciano in Naples, Italy. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 335 |
| Catalog #: | 430383 | |
| Clip Number: | 430383-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 62/11 | |
| Timecode: | 00:46:52 - 00:47:49 | |
| Location: | Naples, Italy | |
| Year Shot: | 1962 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CRIME: Organized FUNERALS: Misc LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Italy | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 32415 & # 311415 Funeral of Lucky Luciano. Panning TLS pallbearers carrying rather small, gilded mahogany coffin of mafia boss Lucky Luciano (Salvatore Lucania, Charles Luciano) into church. MS inscription above door: "I am the Resurrection and the Life." TLS well-dressed mourners filing quickly into church. Rear view TLS priest with altar boys saying mass on altar, tilt up to statue of Our Lady. TLS/MSs mourners standing in church pews, some with bowed heads. MS coffin with flowers, wreaths, candles. CU bouquet allegedly from racketeer Joe Adonis bearing message, "So long, Pal." MSs mourners, including Luciano's fiance ADRIANA RISSO, wearing black leather coat & wiping eyes, exiting church. MS two clean-cut white men in white trenchcoats (VO says they are U.S. narcotics agents but they very well could be FBI) filming guests as they exit church with small gauge film cameras. MS classic cosa nostra type wearing sunglasses, silk suit, trenchcoat, walking out of church. MS man using fedora hat to try & stop the filming of Italian priest with wide brimmed hat getting into car. MSs coffin being slid into hearse. TLSs fanciful, ornate horse-drawn hearse (eight black horses with black plummage) winding through Naples; MS intricate wooden wheel turning. | |
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