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New York City | Cocaine
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1991 | Abel
Italian political magnate Silvio Berlusconi, the richest man in Italy, financed the film through NY-based producer Jay Julien and Italian intermediaries.
James Russo turned down the part Jimmy Jump. Laurence Fishburne, who had already been cast as Thomas Flanagan, persistently begged director Abel Ferrara for an audition for the part. He got the part just by coming in looking exactly as he does in the film and did not have to audition.
New York rapper The Notorious B.I.G. used the moniker "Frank White" in many of his songs.
The first cut of the film originally ran for almost two hours and had to be edited down to 106 minutes to avoid an X rating.
Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, and Harvey Keitel's frequent lawyer Jay Julien produced and appears in the film in a cameo.
"Frank White: From now on, nothing goes down unless I'm involved. No blackjack no dope deals, no nothing. A nickel bag gets sold in the park, I want in. You guys got fat while everybody starved on the street. Now it's my turn."
"Frank White: When the D.A's office investigated the sudden death of Arty Clay, they found that he left a $13 million estate. How do you explain that? There there's Larry Wong, who owned half of Chinatown when he passed away. Larry used to rent his tenements to Asian refuges, his own people, for $800 a month to share a single toilet on the same floor. How 'bout King Tito? He had thirteen-year-old girls hooking for him on the street. Those guys are dead because I don't want to make money that way. Emil Zappa, the Mata brothers, they're dead because they were running this city into the ground. Roy Bishop: You expected to get away with killing all these people? Frank White: I spent half my life in prison. I never got away with anything, and I never killed anybody that didn't deserve it. Roy Bishop: Who made you judge and jury? Frank White: Well, it's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it."
