The Brothers Rico (1957)
1957
Action / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
The Brothers Rico (1957)
1957
Action / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
The Brothers Rico (1957) Synopsis
The Rico family has long been involved in the New York based mob. Eddie Rico, once the mob accountant, and his wife Alice Rico moved from New York to Bayshore, Florida three years ago to lead a straight life - Eddie now running a successful commercial laundering business - which also includes their want to start a family through adoption in they unable to conceive. When Eddie's old mob boss Sid Kubik, via a subordinate, asks Eddie to harbor someone in his laundering business, Eddie has no qualms solely because Sid is the one person that he trusts in the organization in Mama Rico once having taken a bullet for Sid. In doing this favor and hearing through Mama that his two younger brothers, Gino and Johnny, have gone missing, Eddie learns that the two issues are connected in a mob hit. While Gino and Johnny used to be much like Eddie in being more on the administrative end of the organization, they were both directly involved in the hit, Gino the trigger, Johnny the getaway driver. Eddie further eventually learns that Gino and Johnny's disappearance was in they trying to escape the life themselves in being scared following the hit, Johnny's situation more difficult in his new brother-in-law, Peter Malaks, having gone to the District Attorney about Johnny. To save Johnny from whatever is happening, Sid hands Eddie an envelope full of cash in the directive to locate Johnny, the money to help him leave the country for good. In the process, Eddie will discover if any of them can ever really leave the organization on their own terms.—Huggo
Published Time: 2021-10-03 12:33:47