{"id":39990,"date":"2025-09-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39990"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:11:28","slug":"the-alto-knights-2025-directed-by-barry-levinson-starring-robert-de-niro-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39990","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Alto Knights&#8221; (2025) directed by Barry Levinson, starring Robert De Niro \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z091625zview_altoknights.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Alto Knights <\/strong><\/em>(2025)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Barry Levinson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Nicholas Pileggi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Robert De Niro, Debra Messing, Kathrine Narducci, Cosmo Jarvis, Michael Rispoli, James Ciccone, Wallace Langham, Ed Amatrudo, Mike Seely<\/strong> and <strong>Brian Scolaro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The most dangerous enemy is an old friend<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frank Costello and Vito Genovese grew up together as best friends.\u00a0 They became notorius crime bosses for different families.\u00a0 When Costello plans to retire he informs Genovese.\u00a0 Genovese smells a doublecross.\u00a0 Soon a gang war irrupts.\u00a0 Who will survive?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who cares?\u00a0 I tapped out after about 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A lot of the movie is voice overs played as old time photos appear.\u00a0 I also thought having De Niro play both parts was more distracting than it should be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Robert De Niro plays both Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, an actor was hired to play opposite De Niro during filming.\u00a0 De Niro felt it was needed to get the best performance.\u00a0 So the actor would play Costello while De Niro acted as Genovese.\u00a0 The De Niro and the actor would switch parts and redo the scenes.\u00a0 The actor hired has been kept a secret.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Alto Knights <\/strong><\/em>(2025) rates 1 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_f.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z091625zview_altoknights2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alto Knights (2025) Director:\u00a0 Barry Levinson Screenplay:\u00a0 Nicholas Pileggi Stars: Robert De Niro, Debra Messing, Kathrine Narducci, Cosmo Jarvis,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39991,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39990\/revisions\/39991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}