THE GEORDIE SICILIAN is a 35mm historical drama, based upon the true story of how a brutal, vicious and hushed-up gangland war was fought on the streets of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, between two Geordie crime families and the Sicilian Mafia during the 1970’s.
‘Molto simpatico, furbo e intelligente’ is how Donna Pia Savino described Giacco, the youngest of her two sons. Enzo, his senior, was destined to become ‘Capofamiglia’ of the Savino clan, succeeding his goat herding father Don Pino.
Unlike his brother, Giacco would be a ‘civilian” and join his cousin Rocco, leaving San Sebastiano to start a very successful men and women’s hairdressing salon in Newcastle. Like his cousin, Giacco had worked from the age of 8 in the local barber shop. Now 35, Giacco had just received his first passport and withthe family’s blessing departed with Rocco for ‘Geordieland’.
Giacco takes full advantage of the opportunities presented. He marries the daughter of Sir Eduardo Port QC MP, a ‘Geordie Italian’. Giacco then sees the potential of opening the first Italian hairdressing salon and pizzeria in the City, with the investment coming from sources back home and agreements to purchase supplies.
A location is identified in the centre of the City and both the salon and pizzeria are opened with a flourish. However, this development has not gone unnoticed by the City underworld, controlled by two rival criminal families, The Tates (Spud Tates) and the Whites (Chalky Whites), who expect to get their cut and resent the success both Giacco and his cousin are having with the new enterprises. Something the local police are very concerned about.
Giacco rejects a proposition from the local gangs and as a result trucks bringing shipments from San Sebastiano are set on fire when parked overnight, incinerating one of the drivers and an undercover agent of the Sicilan Anti-Mafia squad. Their murders, the total destruction of the trucks and the produce provokes retaliation from the Savino clan.
This is manifested by the calling in of a favour from ‘Family’ in Glasgow, who travel down to Newcastle and burn down two large car dealerships each owned by the respective Geordie families. Police now very worried that this is an act of ‘war’ between the Geordie Mobs and Sicilian Mafia. Before long the Geordies take their own revenge. THE WAR IS ON !!
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