Victor Riesel’s trial by acid

Last year, I was one of the few people who ventured to a theater to see Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson’s mid-century mafia movie, The Alto Knights.
What drew me to the picture was not Levinson’s gimmick of having Robert De Niro portray both Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, the rival mob bosses at the center of the plot.