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The man the mob couldn't kill.
Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 708 ratings · 10 Mar 2011 · English · 1h 46m · Released
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.
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