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To: Kid Shelleen
"Anastasia’s base was the waterfront in Red Hook, Brooklyn "

Elia Kazan's classic film about union corruption, "On the Waterfront", was based in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
3 posted on 01/23/2013 11:34:12 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Elia Kazan’s classic film about union corruption, “On the Waterfront”, was based in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

— one of my favorite movies. I think it was 1951, ‘52 or ‘53, and Kazan was so ahead of Hoover on the subject. The FBI file on Anastasia is about 1/4” thick. At the time of the Apalachin Summit Hoover had 200 agents targeting commies, and only 4 agents targeting mobsters. Hoover did some great things but he completely failed with the Mafia, and although many theories exist for his otherwise inexplicable failure in recognizing — let alone investigating — the Mafia the dereliction of duty will always remain an unfortunate black mark against the storied Director.


5 posted on 01/23/2013 11:48:15 AM PST by AtlasStalled
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To: Kid Shelleen

As was the HP Lovecraft horror story “The Horror at Red Hook”.


7 posted on 01/23/2013 11:52:45 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Kid Shelleen
"Father Barry: Isn't it simple as one, two, three? One: The working conditions are bad. Two: They're bad because the mob does the hiring. And three: The only way we can break the mob is to stop letting them get away with murder. "
21 posted on 01/23/2013 1:33:32 PM PST by GOPJ ( Do murder laws control murders?... freeper Red Badger)
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