Trivia / The Valachi Papers

• Completely Different Title: The film was released in Italy as Joe Valachi – The Secrets of the Cosa Nostra, and in France as simply Cosa Nostra.
• Creator Couple: Valachi's wife is played by Charles Bronson's real-life wife Jill Ireland.
• Disowned Adaptation: Source novelist Peter Maas once said of this movie that it was "one of the worst films ever made".
• Dueling Works: The film was released the same year as a certain other film about the Italian-American mafia, The Godfather.
• Fake Nationality: Italian mobsters Joe Valachi and Salvatore Maranzano are played by Charles Bronson (Lithuanian-American) and Joseph Wiseman (Jewish-Canadian-American).

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