A Boston cop is recruited to return to his hometown and infiltrate the mob ran by his best friend's brother.A Boston cop is recruited to return to his hometown and infiltrate the mob ran by his best friend's brother.A Boston cop is recruited to return to his hometown and infiltrate the mob ran by his best friend's brother.
- Frankie's Man
- (as Brian Burke)
- Frankie's Man
- (as Michael Cunningham)
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- TriviaSeveral incidents in the film are based on actual testimony given by captured mobsters. The meeting in the restaurant with the Italian mobster and the dead man's hand sequences are based on the recollections of various New York gangs.
- GoofsWhen Nicholson guns down the bartender who had just been talking to Terry, the baseball bat the bartender is holding while being shot varies from being shot to pieces to being back in one piece again between shots.
- Quotes
Terry: So I was in Boston, I just ended up there. Seemed far enough away. They come to me then, it just happened, you know how that is, things happen and other things happen and its your life. They were looking to get somebody to go undercover here, they wanted to get somebody who knew the kitchen who was known. And I coulda said no but I thought I could do it. It was like this opportunity in which I could look the entire thing in the eye. And you'd be gone, or married forgotten about me I thought. And Jack, I would leave him out of it. But it was only an idea. Nothing to do with the truth. It was just a fuckin' idea like... You believe in the angels or the saints or there's such a thing as a state of grace. And you believe it, but it's got nothing to do with reality. It just an idea. I mean you got your ideas and you got reality, and they're all... they're all fucked up.
- SoundtracksWhite City
Written by Shane MacGowan
Performed by The Pogues
Published by Stiff Music Limited.
Courtesy of Island Records, Inc.
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- Westies
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Box office
- Budget
- $18,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,911,542
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $179,927
- Sep 16, 1990
- Gross worldwide
- $1,911,542
- Runtime2 hours 14 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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