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Spike of Bensonhurst

Country: USA, Language: English, 100 mins

Original Title

Mafia Kid
  • Director: Paul Morrissey
  • Writer: Alan Bowne; Paul Morrissey
  • Producer: Ernest Z. Frausto; Jane Holzer

CGiii Comment

Horrific.

Paul Morrissey could not direct traffic. Why he was ever allowed a film crew and a budget will forever remain one of life's mysteries.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.

Cast & Characters

Sasha Mitchell as Spike Fumo;
Ernest Borgnine as Baldo Cacetti;
Anne De Salvo as Sylvia Cacetti;
Sylvia Miles as Congresswoman;
Geraldine Smith as Helen Fumo;
Antonia Rey as Bandanas Mother;
Rick Aviles as Bandana;
Maria Pitillo as Angel;
Karen Shallo as Blondie;
Christopher Anthony Young as Carmine