Vendetta (1999 film)

Vendetta is a 1999 HBO original movie directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Christopher Walken, Luke Askew, Clancy Brown, Alessandro Colla, Andrew Connolly, and Bruce Davison and featuring the film debut of Terence Hamilton. Based on actual events, it depicts the assassination of David Hennessy and the consequent March 14, 1891 lynchings of eleven Italian Americans in New Orleans.

Premise
Nineteen Italian-Americans were accused of the murder of the police chief. After the acquittal of six and mistrial of three, ten of them were shot or hanged in one of the largest mass lynching of Americans in U.S. history.

Cast

 * Christopher Walken as James Houston
 * Luke Askew as William Parkerson
 * Clancy Brown as Chief Hennessy
 * Alessandro Colla as Gaspare Marchesi
 * Andrew Connolly as Sheriff Bill Villere
 * Bruce Davison as Thomas Semmes
 * Joaquim de Almeida as Joseph Macheca
 * Andrea Di Stefano as Vincent Provenzano
 * Edward Herrmann as D.A. Luzenberg
 * Richard Libertini as Giovanni Provenzano
 * George N. Martin as Judge Joshua G. Baker
 * Pierrino Mascarino as Antonio Marchesi
 * Daragh O'Malley as Dominic O'Malley
 * Kenneth Welsh as Mayor Joseph Shakspeare
 * Gerry Mendicino as Charles Matranga
 * Frank Crudele as Angelo Bagnetto
 * Vincent Marino as Pietro Monasterio
 * Louis Di Bianco as Emmanuel Polizzi
 * Peter Didiano as Bastian Incompara
 * Giuseppe Tancredi as Umberto Scaffidi
 * Megan McChesney as Megan O'Brien
 * Stuart Stone as Tony Provenzano
 * Nigel Shawn Williams as Samuel Foster
 * Anna Mancini as Francesca Marchesi
 * Tony Mark as Mayor's Assistant
 * Conrad Dunn as Pasquale Corte
 * Ian Downie as Priest
 * Ron White as Robert Collins
 * Jack Newman as Jacob Seligman
 * Jack Jessop as William Yochum
 * Wayne Robson as Frank Peeter
 * Delores Etienne as Emma Thomas
 * Joel Gordon as William
 * Victor Ertmanis as John Duare
 * Richard Blackburn as Warden Davis
 * Holly Dennison as Miss O'Brian
 * Herbert Johnson as Houston's Servant
 * John Healy as Construction Foreman
 * James Bearden as Governor Francis T. Nicholls
 * Terence Hamilton as Young Boy Wearing Cap

Writing
The teleplay by Timothy Prager is based on Richard Gambino's book, Vendetta: The True Story of the Largest Lynching in U.S. History (ISBN 1550711032).

Principal photography took place near Kingston, Canada.