King of New York

Resource Information

The work King of New York represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Redgranite Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

King of New York

Statement of responsibility

Caminito ; Reteitalia ; Scena International ; The Rank Organisation Film Productions, Ltd. ; producers, Augusto Caminito, Mary Kane ; written by Nicholas St. John ; director, Abel Ferrara

Contributor

• Artisan Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Rank Organisation Film Productions
• Reteitalia (Firm)
• Scena International (Firm)
• Argo, Victor
• Bazelli, Bojan
• Calderon, Paul
• Caminito, Augusto
• Caruso, David, 1956-
• Chin, Joey
• Delia, Joe
• Esposito, Giancarlo
• Ferrara, Abel, 1951-
• Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961-
• Julian, Janet, 1959-
• Kane, Mary
• Ramsey, Carol
• Redman, Anthony
• Snipes, Wesley
• St. John, Nicholas
• Tavoularis, Alex
• Walken, Christopher, 1943-

Subject

• Crimen organizado -- (Estados Unidos : Estado) | Nueva York -- Teatro
• Criminal behavior -- New York (State) | New York
• Organized crime -- New York (State) | New York
• Philanthropists -- New York (State) | New York
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Teatro
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Chronicles the downfall of New York drug kingpin Frank White. Frank is a criminal driven by personal demons and an idiosyncratic sesnse of social justice. Having grown rich via his illegal exploits, Frank decides to give back to the city by building a multi-milion dollar hospital in an impoverished neighborhood. He attempts this by joining forces with a Chinatown gangster which, in turn, enrages the local - and very racist - Mafia. Meanwhile, Frank has a hotheaded cop on his back who will do anything to bring him down

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Bojan Bazelli ; editor, Anthony Redman ; music, Joe Delia ; costume designer, Carol Ramsey ; production designer, Alex Tavoularis

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R

Language note

English dialogue, Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.K42942 2004 DVD

PerformerNote

Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Larry Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes, Janet Julian, Joey Chin, Gaincarlo Esposito, Paul Calderon

Runtime

106

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action