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Last December a man wearing a ski mask and carrying a shotgun broke into Richard Morgan's San Francisco Bay-area home. Morgan, a burly Teamster, managed to chase him away and get his license number. But after the suspect was arrested and released on bail, police say, he threatened Morgan over the phone, assaulted him in the courthouse hallway and stole one of his dogs. Finally, the suspect tried to blow Morgan up. Returning to Morgan's house late one night in mid-August bearing 75 sticks of dynamite, the suspect was scared off by barking dogs...
...Jersey Teamster boss. Ruler of the Newark docks. Feared Mafia avenger. Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, 61, is all of these and more. In fact, his underworld influence is so vast that some Justice Department officials regard him as the nation's most powerful racketeer...
...investigation into the case soon stalled. But when Provenzano went to Lewisburg Penitentiary in 1966 for shaking down a trucking firm executive, he became embroiled in a vendetta with a fellow inmate, former Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa, who had enraged Tony Pro by denying him a union pension. Both were eventually set free, and mob leaders summoned Hoffa to a peacemaking conference with Provenzano in a Detroit parking lot on July 30, 1975. Hoffa has not been seen since...
...bloated Senator Andrew Madison (Rod Steiger) opens his McClellanesque hearings with evidence culled from the recently disenchanted (and just murdered) Abe, one major chunk of the committee's case rests on the report of the bludgeoning. The rest of the questioning deals with the relationship which Kovak's Teamster-clones have enjoyed with the Mafia during the union's meteoric climb in membership, a relationship which entangles the former Lord of Flatbush in a scandal the magnitude and significance of which he cannot quite grasp...
...WONDERS just what F.I.S.T. is trying to prove. Yes, it correctly isolates the roots of Teamster-like corruption, and recreates the mood of the McClellan hearings rather effectively. Yes, it tells the story of the birth of a fictitious-but-powerful Hoffaesque labor boss. But one cannot help but wonder why such a story is necessary, except as a vehicle for the portrayal of random, gratuitous and organized violence--both management and union-instigated--with the imprimatur of Rocky legitimacy provided by Stallone, and sealed, in absurd enough fashion, with a fist...