The crime genre maestro and acclaimed filmmaker Barry Levinson talk about the true story of Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, the mobsters at the center of their latest collaboration.

Genovese was known for street crime and violence to get what he wanted. “He was more on the thug side of organized crime,” says Schumacher. He was an underboss to Lucky Luciano, who took control of the mafia in America in 1931 after killing the New York boss Joe Masseria.

For the first time in his career, the 81-year-old Oscar winner plays two leading roles in the same film: mafiosos, friends and rivals Frank Costello and Vito Genovese in “The Alto