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Kill the Irishman will be released in slected UK cinemas on 26th August 2011 by Anchor Bay, and on September 26th on Blu-ray and DVD.
The film stars Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken, Vincent D’Onofrio, Val Kilmer, Paul Sorvino, Linda Cardenelli and Vinnie Jones, and is directed by by Jonathan Hensleigh, also responsible for 2004’s reboot of The Punisher.
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between the fearless Irish mobster Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson, Thor, The Book of Eli, The Punisher, King Arthur) and the Italian mafia.
Based on the astonishing true story, KILL THE IRISHMAN chronicles Greene’s heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighbourhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.
Turning the tables on loan shark Shondor Birns (Christopher Walken) and allying himself with gangster John Nardi (Vincent D’Onofrio), Greene stops taking orders from the mafia and pursues his own power. Surviving countless assassination attempts from the mob and killing off anyone who went after him in retaliation, Danny Greene’s infamous invincibility and notorious fearlessness eventually led to the collapse of mafia syndicates across the U.S. and also earned him the status of the man the mob couldn’t kill.
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