William Hickey (somewhat aged, noted for his acting tuition at the HB Studio in Greenwich Village) then led us to this, which we hadn't seen for so long that the paint had dried. He's the Don of a family that extends to John Randolph and his son hitman Jack Nicholson, and includes Robert Loggia, Lee Richardson and Anjelica Huston.
Q got it absolutely right - Nicholson did a Brando in The Godfather by stuffing tissue into his upper lip, copying the Italians he'd observed who didn't move their upper lips. Though quite frail Huston knew what he was doing, reminding Nicholson that he should be as thick as he seems, and filming very long takes, particularly between him and Kathleen Turner, and directing Anjelica (then dating Jack) to her Oscar. Indeed, Anjelica sets the whole plot into action by pitting her father (Richardson) again Family beloved Nicholson.
Stanley Tucci's in there somewhere.
The story is from Richard (The Manchurian Candidate) Condon, adapted by he and Janet Roach. Alex North provided a suitably Italian score and classic Hollywood Warner Bros.' editor Rudi Fehr (Dial M For Murder, I, Confess, also Huston's Key Largo) came out of retirement - well, he'd already come out of retirement, actually, Mr. McGilligan, for One From the Heart in 1981 - to cut it. Andrej Bartkowiak (Falling Down, A Good Man in Africa, Terms of Endearment, The Verdict) shot it.
It's a class act of gallows' humour with a good dose of Mafia / honor.
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