HENRY HILL - "GOODFELLAS". How a respected gangster became a snitch. Real story

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  • Do you know Henry Hill from the movie Goodfellas, played by Ray Liotta? What is so interesting about this gangster? He didn't kill dozens of people. He wasn't wanted for 40 years. And he wasn't the head of the mafia. Well, not much, but a famous book was written about his life, and a great movie was made. All of this was not for nothing. He saw everything: murders, fraud, robberies, prison, and he told the world about it. He had a target on his head even before the movie was made. But after the movie revealed the secrets of many gangsters, Henry became afraid of even the slightest rustle because the gangsters had announced an open season on him… But did they find him?
    #henryhill #goodfellas #gangsters

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  • @showcrime
    @showcrime  ปีที่แล้ว +257

    Guys! I apologize! Honestly, I'm tired of apologizing for mispronouncing some names, but I guess I deserved it. If this were AI, you would have noticed it right away, but here was a real person voicing the names, who, unfortunately, like all of us, is prone to making mistakes. I've been working with this person for a long time, but he doesn't seem to be very good at pronouncing mafia names. In any case, the responsibility lies with me, as I was the one who wrote the text, but didn't double-check the voicing for pronunciation of the names. I have taken your criticism into account and will try to make fewer mistakes in the next videos.
    Thank you for your support, friends!

    • @bartoncole2754
      @bartoncole2754 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      It's okay, man

    • @mattsweeny3957
      @mattsweeny3957 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Don't beat yourself up bro..its a NYC 5 Boros Eye-talian thing..and some of them don't even get it right. Even as an Irish-German AMERICAN, that grew up in the center of it all (South Ozone Park and How'beach) I know to call Manicotti, "Muna-gut" Cross Bay Blvd is "Crozz-Bay," Long Island 🏝 is "Long GUY land. Calamari is
      "Golla-mah)." Cousin is "My Cuzzin,"
      River is "Riivah" et et cetera...Capitsh (you understand, in Italian, spelling?) Is "KAAABEESCH???). Not looking Italian and moving out to "Long GUY land" when I was 12, I can speak the King's English, Locust Valley Lockjaw (Like Thurston Howell III Gilligan's Island 🏝), and Being a College 🎓 graduate, I can turn it on and off to suit my company 😀 or to make jokes, or let someone know, I'm from the Old Nay-bah-hood! Cuz...You get that double-take from, them...
      "HOW YOU KNOWA DAT?" actual Question from an Old Brooklyn Plumber I knew....I had asked about one of his employees, Doug. And, In a very suspicious 🤔 and accusatory tone in Broken English he said
      "Howa youa knowa DOUG?????"
      like how could I possibly know the same peeps, he did but He don't me! It was hilarious 😆 and we use that phrase till this day to break his shoes....Dont beat yourself up bro, I find it Precious and Hilarious how these names are attempted...its all good as long as the Content is accurate...who cares....Matt

    • @satansalley6526
      @satansalley6526 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Mate,it was a great vid.Nevermind the bollocks.

    • @mattsweeny3957
      @mattsweeny3957 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      No worries...bro..its funny

    • @ewa2z816
      @ewa2z816 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Small potatoz/ potattoes ….. 👍🏻💯❤

  • @vaynerebelle84
    @vaynerebelle84 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +112

    Rest in peace Ray Liotta

  • @troutaholic8834
    @troutaholic8834 ปีที่แล้ว +405

    I met Henry when I was a cop, in one of the cities he stayed in on witness protection. I had coffee with him. He gave me a signed cookbook with excellent old school Italian recipes. He did not strike me as a tough guy. More of a guy who would do thefts and a little white collar crime. Being of Italian decent myself, he reminded me of one of my uncles. He was short and looked to me like the old comedian-actor Jimmy Durante. Everywhere he went in witness protection he always made himself visible to the public and he committed drug related crimes, as he was an addict.
    In my City, he was doing a pizza shop promotion book signing while at the same time, had nurses stealing drugs for him from the local hospital. The thefts were discovered, the nurses fired and everything was kept from the public because of embarrassment to the prestigious hospital.
    The Marshalls would quietly move Henry to another city. Rinse and repeat.

    • @showcrime
      @showcrime  ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Your comment has to be at the top! Thank you so much for sharing such exclusive and interesting information!

    • @highgarden9704
      @highgarden9704 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I met Henry when I was one of the nurses getting stuff for him in my city while he was doing the pizza shop promotion book signing! What a guy, he used to make me laugh with his stories and wisecracks, oh I still chuckle now!

    • @showcrime
      @showcrime  ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@highgarden9704 Very interesting! 👍 What did he tell you, if it's not a secret?

    • @troutaholic8834
      @troutaholic8834 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@showcrime I asked him if he knew any of my relatives in Pittsburgh and he didn’t know them. He gave me a name and asked me if I had heard anything about this guy. He told me that the guy was a “ wannabe wise guy” and that he wanted to open a strip club with Henry. I never heard of the guy.
      He asked me why I was still a patrol officer and not “inside”, given my family connections in Pittsburgh. I told him that I had no contact with those folks, since I left for college and then subsequently moved out of state. We talked about our mothers Italian cooking. He was a good cook and the book that he gave me, had some recipes that would be hard to find. Most of those recipes left the world, with the women who made them. I have been around some hitters and even other psycho cops, that I was careful what came out of my mouth. I did not feel that way with Henry. Henry was like the guy that would be a sneaky thief or pick up numbers slips, but I did not sense danger around him like some guys. He knew however, some very dangerous people. I liked Henry and found him funny. We hit it off.

    • @mattsweeny3957
      @mattsweeny3957 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Henry seemed like a great guy who would give you the shirt off his back, but would go in the top dresser drawer and take cash 💸 😉 if he needed it. He never passed himself off as a tough guy, but He could be violent if he HAD to. Some people try to portray him as a witless loser hanging in the background. Au Contrare! He was an amazing jungle cat that had unbelievable senses and was pretty much the only one who avoided death at the Hands of Jimmy The Gent Burke. Hey, Henry had alot more interesting life than most of us. Matt

  • @Cazz8203
    @Cazz8203 ปีที่แล้ว +562

    To the mafia, he was a rat...to every movie creator , especially TH-cam channels, he's a source of income

    • @troutaholic8834
      @troutaholic8834 ปีที่แล้ว

      Many of those guys in the life “found “ religion after they served their sentences and returned to civilian life broke. Recognizing a good scam, they turned to TH-cam. Guys like Joe Rogan making 80 million to talk to people in their basement. Except for Religion and politics, TH-cam is a great way to take suckers money.

    • @tonym994
      @tonym994 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      TH-cam is fast becoming a retirement home for wise guys.

    • @jamesfreund8499
      @jamesfreund8499 ปีที่แล้ว

      When the FBI ,played a tape of Burke and Paulie discussing killing him , Henry called bullshit and said no way ,,then they played more tape then Henry realized what scumbags his "standup' were

    • @mrsentimental1995
      @mrsentimental1995 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      And he the guy that made Ray Liotta a household name in Hollywood! RIP to Ray Liotta, you were the real goodfella.
      Sorry to the real Henry Hill but you should've been careful with your life choices.

    • @DickDickerson01
      @DickDickerson01 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Perfectly said.

  • @davidoskutis6290
    @davidoskutis6290 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

    One of my favorite nuggets about Henry Hill: While talking to Nicholas Pileggi about his mobster life, they'd take breaks in the interviews, and he'd talk to Pileggi's wife about his life in Witness Protection and how ridiculous some of it was. Pileggi's wife also found a lot of humor in his stories, so she wrote them down and made a movie about that, too. Pileggi's wife is Nora Ephron - and the movie "My Blue Heaven" (with Steve Martin playing the Henry Hill inspired character) cost a quarter as much as Goodfellas, and a third of the time to film - and both Goodfellas and My Blue Heaven came out in the same year (about a month apart).

    • @schmatever
      @schmatever 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      That's really interesting. These movies really affected me as a young man growing up in London. I watched both avidly over and over. Steve Martin's brilliant acting in My Blue Heaven, the music and direction was top notch American production for example the dance scene with Rick Moranis and Joan Cusack is pure magic!

    • @sibitsabat
      @sibitsabat 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Very cool, and a funny film. They should do a documentary about that story.

    • @aldecursoe7173
      @aldecursoe7173 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I love that movie

    • @GoodfellaHenry
      @GoodfellaHenry 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So true never got a nickel from Efron

    • @sawtooth808
      @sawtooth808 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My Blue Heaven was based around Henry Hill, now _that’s_ funny 😂 funniest part in that movie was when Steve Martin and Co are rolling out water cooler bottles full of coins 🪙, even my Aunt’s father (who was old school “affluent” Italian Canadian) laughed at that part

  • @seoulkidd1
    @seoulkidd1 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    We glorify Gangster's and the underworld but it's really a dark life which none of us could stomach.

    • @edub9716
      @edub9716 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      We glorified Cowboys and the US Calvary too. Care to guess who suffered besides the Buffalo?

    • @seoulkidd1
      @seoulkidd1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@edub9716 I guess that's why we're screwed

    • @velveetaslingshot
      @velveetaslingshot ปีที่แล้ว +18

      ​@@edub9716 Care to go over what the Comanches and Apaches did to other tribes???

    • @heywoodjablowme8120
      @heywoodjablowme8120 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@edub9716 Injuns and wagon burners are always bitching about being losers. Hey we gave you casinos. Your welcome.

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 ปีที่แล้ว

      They are the LOWEST of the low I despise them

  • @eddiemcgrath8536
    @eddiemcgrath8536 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    "He spoke coherently and intelligently" not in any interview i ever seen.

    • @RuminatingWizard
      @RuminatingWizard ปีที่แล้ว

      He was a low iq guy for sure not like he was portrayed in the film.

    • @c0m4g1bb
      @c0m4g1bb ปีที่แล้ว +1

      he got into the sauce bad eventually

    • @tommyhaynes9157
      @tommyhaynes9157 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yea, he sounds pretty simple minded

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 ปีที่แล้ว

      Highly unlikely for these scum

    • @erichoepelman7764
      @erichoepelman7764 ปีที่แล้ว

      Two words. Cocaine cocaine

  • @KrishnaSingh-ow1ie
    @KrishnaSingh-ow1ie 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    Its shocking how art imitate life. Henry hill died of a heart attack at 69 and the same thing happen to ray liotta

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Reality is tough and then you die. Then dogs pee on you for eternity. You dwell in wonderland and frolic in a creepy place. What up?

    • @GoodfellaHenry
      @GoodfellaHenry 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Henry had heart disease Ray just overworked himself to death..plus the lovely Ray liked his cocaine every now and then...wish he didnt...

    • @johnnyola8391
      @johnnyola8391 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@martinkent333 lighten up Francis

    • @stevearkie5722
      @stevearkie5722 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Coincident Ray Loitta was a cream puff actor Henry Hill transporting body’s at 3am .

  • @DominusLuna
    @DominusLuna 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Henry was surrounded by terrifying people and for years. His nightmares must have been pretty vivid, when he had them.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No conscience. Henry was just another happy zombie with blood on his hands. A Rat King. GROSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @adrianscorch
    @adrianscorch ปีที่แล้ว +136

    This is scary.
    Sometimes it’s fun to imagine being a soldier for a mafia family until you realize the evil you’d have to delve into.

    • @IHS333
      @IHS333 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      It’s romantic to think of being part of the mob until you’re in the crew of Jimmy Burke, who will walk your children in a refrigerator

    • @adrianscorch
      @adrianscorch ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@IHS333 jimmy the gent! Good on your history!

    • @bobbyleglocks1992
      @bobbyleglocks1992 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@IHS333you keep repeating the same thing.

    • @bobbyleglocks1992
      @bobbyleglocks1992 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Henry wasn't even a soldier, he was an errand boy.

    • @adrianscorch
      @adrianscorch ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@bobbyleglocks1992 you know what’s funny, I was watching Michael Franzese last night and he said almost exactly the same thing, lol.
      I stand corrected.

  • @johnmaisonneuve9057
    @johnmaisonneuve9057 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The saying: “No honour among thief’s” - seems almost universal.

  • @tukjohnson5246
    @tukjohnson5246 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Paul Variyo was having an affair with Henrys wife and when Tommy also wanted a piece, Paul ratted him out to the Gambinos, which means Variyo knew all about Billy Batts..Other sources have said it was John Gotti who killed Tommy..A Goodfellas tv show would be awesome..Definitely no shortage of characters and it could run for years..

    • @frankiehitman2610
      @frankiehitman2610 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      That's what I've heard too. I heard gotti killed him in a basement with a couple of other guys.

    • @robertrodriguez787
      @robertrodriguez787 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@frankiehitman2610 I heard it was with a Chainsaw

    • @frankiehitman2610
      @frankiehitman2610 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@robertrodriguez787 fuckin brutal. But, that's the life of a gangster

    • @melbourne-heat.69-71
      @melbourne-heat.69-71 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Great Movie at the beginning were they are at the diner and Henry and Tommy are standing together.. I believe it said 1963 at the bottom..That's means Tommy DeSimone was only "13" years old and Henry was "20"..Henry he met Karen Freeman through Paul Vario Jr. And his date..Not Tommy & his date..Henry when he was living in Kentucky he got $500,000 from the movie and they promised him Millions more that he never got that's why he went through the money so fast on drinking drugs and gambling..Was the movie accurate who Henry Hill I'd say maybe 60% the other 40% was made up BS..Why not everybody's either in jail or dead and you're getting paid great money why not make yourself look like a cool gangster..😮💰

    • @Mike-tu7uw
      @Mike-tu7uw 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      According to the book “ Wise Guys” Paul Vario had never liked Tommy anyway

  • @adamfitzgerald911
    @adamfitzgerald911 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    I usually scour the internet for true crime videos. This wasnt overdone and was narrated excellently. Great job telling the story without the fantastical.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      RUA bottom feeder?

    • @kennethwagster3788
      @kennethwagster3788 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He couldn't even pronounce the crime family and an important characters last name correctly. Terrible

    • @JOHNTOPG
      @JOHNTOPG 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hesa jew wat yall expect

    • @billyjean9484
      @billyjean9484 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Adam, if you like true crime, go to Matt Cox channel. Inside True Crime. I've done 2.5 yrs in fed for stealing 2.5m.

  • @LiveINtheGood53
    @LiveINtheGood53 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    I love it when an iconic movie like this is factual. It makes it even better!

    • @davidvarey5072
      @davidvarey5072 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It isn’t

    • @LiveINtheGood53
      @LiveINtheGood53 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s a lot factual.

    • @davidvarey5072
      @davidvarey5072 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LiveINtheGood53 it’s nonsense he was a little smack head that the police bribed with freedom to tell lie’s

    • @sammygaudino8906
      @sammygaudino8906 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@LiveINtheGood53The book is even better.

    • @sole__doubt
      @sole__doubt 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The stuff actually happened but it didnt look the way it did in the movies. Based on true events, and thats what Goodfellas is.

  • @TheArchersTungsten
    @TheArchersTungsten ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Henry was so well hidden he used to go up to Howard stern and pass out drunk outside in his vomit on the streets of Manhattan in those big flower pots.only 8 million people knew where he was but the mob just couldn’t find him .

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      r u a bottom feeder?

    • @iTzYoMasterXX
      @iTzYoMasterXX 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They cared more about finding Donnie Brascoe than they did Henry. And Donnie was only doing his job. Henry ratted on his friends!

    • @mr.timebombman2230
      @mr.timebombman2230 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@iTzYoMasterXXWell, they were gonna wack him and his wife. He wasn't a psychopath compared to the others. He just let the thrill of it all go to his head and couldn't get out. Not innocent though by any means obviously

    • @iTzYoMasterXX
      @iTzYoMasterXX 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@mr.timebombman2230 Yeah that's true. What's weird is that they always say, "never rat on your friends". But it's okay to kill them?

  • @bobbytheblade2550
    @bobbytheblade2550 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Hill had no issue with the mafia life until he was jammed up with federal criminal prosecution and years in prison.
    That's when he ratted everybody out.

    • @grahamblack1961
      @grahamblack1961 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That’s not strictly true, the movie portrayed him as someone committed to that life. In reality he had made several attempts to get out of it.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Torture is fun for masochists, like him.

    • @j.dunlop8295
      @j.dunlop8295 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      His boss was sleeping with his wife too, loyalty gets sketchy when that happens?

    • @kingcrustytut7544
      @kingcrustytut7544 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@grahamblack1961 hes a notorious liar, anything you think you know isnt the true story

    • @Jeffersonian1975
      @Jeffersonian1975 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@j.dunlop8295i was gonna bring up that point, you beat me to it, lol

  • @lukewhite8930
    @lukewhite8930 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I like how you present Henry Hill as an exception. When, anyone and everyone who knows anything about La Cosa Nostra, knows, that most dudes, if not pretty much everyone, was turning at that time

    • @rg20322
      @rg20322 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      All total scumbags! Let's not glorify them.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      RUA bottom feeder?

    • @rahowherox1177
      @rahowherox1177 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I find it funny that people think the mafia - child and family murdering drug dealers set the moral code and that their accusations of being a rat ... Are lauded by idiots....
      And like you say they near all rat given the right circumstances.

  • @niceguy60
    @niceguy60 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    RIP Ray Liotta

  • @toecutter9372
    @toecutter9372 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    When I lived in Florida, I worked with Henry’s nephew and actually got a signed copy of Henry’s cookbook “Cooking on the Run” I never met him, but his nephew was cool

    • @GoodfellaHenry
      @GoodfellaHenry 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your welcome 🙏

  • @RonOrtman
    @RonOrtman ปีที่แล้ว +15

    He used to go on the howard stern show all the time and none of the mafia ever did anything to him even though they knew were he was .

    • @robertrodriguez787
      @robertrodriguez787 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      What are they gonna do Bust into the Stern Show to take Henry Out . News Flash The Mob ain't as Strong as it use to be to do that

    • @RonOrtman
      @RonOrtman 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@robertrodriguez787 thats my point .

  • @Akula114
    @Akula114 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Very well done piece. Kept my attention for every word. Thank you!

  • @WES_5150
    @WES_5150 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Amazes me how people make light of, and even compliment, murderous felons like him.

  • @gooderspitman8052
    @gooderspitman8052 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    I read his autobiography and apart from his mob connections, Henry Hill was a nobody and not anyone you could call a decent human being. I came away from the book with utter contempt for him, his world and everything he stood for.

    • @Ditka-89
      @Ditka-89 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      He was a horrendous drug addict, low ranking mafia flunky. He wasn’t respected by his contemporaries or his enemies. And at the first sign of trouble he sold everyone out. Not that I feel bad for the people he ratted on, but Henry was rotten to the core.
      Also weird all the stories about Henry’s seedy sexual escapades with men and women both. His interviews on Stern destroyed any last mystique the movie might have created for him

    • @OnafetsEnovap
      @OnafetsEnovap 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Ditka-89 He got off easy compared to his associates, and the people whose lives he ruined.

    • @Ditka-89
      @Ditka-89 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@OnafetsEnovap again I don’t really have much compassion for any of those mafioso people who got ratted on. I think they’re all scummy. But Henry is somehow scummier than them all.

    • @garethtaylor1470
      @garethtaylor1470 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠@@Ditka-89You “think” they are all scummy??
      If you have to think twice before realising they are evil then you have issues I’m sorry to say.
      As to Henry Hill being “Scummier” what rationale or logic is that??
      Henry Hill was quite literally abused terribly as a child and was groomed by Paul Varios crew who took him in. Henry is not very intelligent and was easily moulded in to a low ranking mobster who drank heavily and used drugs to block out the horrific things he witnessed and remember he knew nothing else and himself was controlled by people like Burke and Di Simone and claimed until very late in his life that although pressured he never killed anyone however he did admit to his crimes but involvement in any violence he claimed this was where he was given no option but he always maintained he was coerced through sheer fear for his own life to do it and I think he played a part in a murder however and BELIEVE ME I am not defending this asshole, when he was appearing on Howard Stern and often drunk shortly before his death he confessed to his sins and knew he was an idiot and a terrible person however the very fact he couldn’t live with his past sins and was a hopeless drunk and drug user who had PTSD should make it pretty obvious he is certainly not Jimmy Burke or Di Simone who were complete EVIL and in the end he did help bring down the Mafia and put over 100 confirmed Murderers behind bars and had a relationship with his family.
      The end of his life was Tragic and terribly sad how he just destroyed himself but maybe he deserved that I don’t know, but I do know he was not in the same league as most Mobsters back then regarding Violent crime and Murder and is one of the very few with any redeeming qualities whatsoever.
      What do you think about the fact that Sammy Gravano who has been convicted with 26 murders and says the real number is way more is running his own TH-cam show!😳🤯

    • @TDL-xg5nn
      @TDL-xg5nn 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Ditka-89 He never murdered anyone to my knowledge. There were far worse than him.

  • @rickyray2794
    @rickyray2794 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Man, look at Goodfellas then look at the real pictures of these guys. A life of crime is hell on the body, these guys all look tired, stressed, and disheveled.

    • @jplonsdale7242
      @jplonsdale7242 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Late nights, chain smoking, all the booze and probably drugs. Possibly a bad diet as well.

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 ปีที่แล้ว

      AWWWWWW

  • @jasonpalacios2705
    @jasonpalacios2705 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    According to former Mafia boss Michael Franzese, Henry was a lost soul totally the opposite of how he really is in the movie portrayal.

    • @citypopFM
      @citypopFM ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Henry was an alcoholic and drug addict but he was still very much a gangster in that life.

    • @cknorris3644
      @cknorris3644 ปีที่แล้ว

      Michael Franzese was a chump just riding off his daddies name and still is. He wasn't in the trenches doing any work. All the street guys have said he was a nobody outside of his last name.

    • @luigivincenz3843
      @luigivincenz3843 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      i dont know why the American mafia kept talking like they need a spotlight. Arent they supposed to STFU? My family is from Sicily but you don't hear those retired mafioso angling for a book and movie deal.

    • @jimmccormick6091
      @jimmccormick6091 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That is the impression I got. Ray Liotta and his portrayal was a LONG way from Henry Hill in real life. Frankly, I think Henry glommed on the Paul Varyo, and then, when he could, I think he got in tight with Jimmy Burke. As far as how far his involvement really went, we will never know. I do not think anyone who has been forced to has ever totally come clean about their misdeeds. Hill included.

    • @noirekuroraigami2270
      @noirekuroraigami2270 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@luigivincenz3843 that's because the Mafia is in control of the government. In America, they got real big fish in the US government, people who literally can destroy any country

  • @Rustyshackleford752
    @Rustyshackleford752 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Great video, definitely some things I didn’t know before hand, now when I watch goodfellas again, I’m gonna be like “naw, that’s not what happened!”

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      R U A Bottom feeder?

  • @Marcelo83uk
    @Marcelo83uk ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Loved this... Great job!

  • @JacobDean88
    @JacobDean88 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Great video. I've watched a lot on these guys. Since the 90s. But this was great. Well done.

    • @showcrime
      @showcrime  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you! I'll try not to let you down in my next videos as well!

  • @mikehunt9884
    @mikehunt9884 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    apparently henry hill lost most of his respect when he went to prison in '72. During his time behind bars he got into a beef with some guy and the guy slapped him around, henry ran to paul vario over it. After that most of that crew didn't want anything to do with henry, in fact, henry got his wife to write a bunch of letters and he got transferred to some type of farm/work camp. You would think this is a trivial issue, but respect and reputation means everything in that world, once you start showing weakness, these guys feel like they can't trust you anymore. He already had the reputation of being a drunk and a drug user, and the thing in prison kind of was the last straw.. Henry still was involved in criminal activities but not with the Paul Varrio crew, he was selling drugs with that guy from boston, maybe his name is Paul Massey? or something. Thats also why a lot of people questions his involvement in the Lufthansa heist. He was kind of on the outs with that crew, i think the only criminal involvement he had with them was the boston point shaving thing, and Jimmy ended up not making a whole lot of money because one of the players got cold feet.. So by the time he ratted, he wasn't a "respected gangster"
    You think Paul Vario would have an affair with the wife of someone he actually respected? And you think the rest of those guys didn't know about it? People in this life gossip more than a chain of hair salon.

    • @robertrodriguez787
      @robertrodriguez787 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      You got proof to back up this claim

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Criminal respect is like raping a woman. R U A loser? Criminal respect is like child porn. R U A LOSER?

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@robertrodriguez787 Criminal respect is like child porn.

    • @robertmaybeth3434
      @robertmaybeth3434 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@robertrodriguez787 Yeah! Proof

    • @JustAdude291
      @JustAdude291 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      thank you, in no way was he a respected gangster

  • @d.l.d.l.8140
    @d.l.d.l.8140 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Henry Hill claiming he never murdered anyone is like me saying I’ve never been high. You make your bones for a reason. It’s harder to be a snitch when you’ve pulled the trigger.

    • @showcrime
      @showcrime  ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Some think he was a small fish and didn't kill anyone. Others believe that Henry was not in the Mafia, but that he was respected, he was assigned difficult cases and probably killed people. As they say, the truth is somewhere in the middle.

    • @theironmarshmallowg3932
      @theironmarshmallowg3932 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      He wasn’t required to make his bones. He could only be an associate.

    • @d.l.d.l.8140
      @d.l.d.l.8140 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@theironmarshmallowg3932 you don’t witness assassinations for the experience. As a witness with no direct action you are a danger to the people committing the murder. Same video, they spoke of wiping out ten or so people for less.

    • @cornpopsrazor5375
      @cornpopsrazor5375 ปีที่แล้ว

      Small fish is right....just a junkie on the fringes who said what the feds told him to say.....he isn't the first and won't be the last.

    • @citypopFM
      @citypopFM ปีที่แล้ว

      Honestly, it's not that unbelievable if he didn't kill people himself. He was an associate in Burke's crew, another respected but Irish gangster under Vario, and the Luccheses likely didn't rely on Irish associates to murder people for the family.

  • @mochans
    @mochans ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you! Great work!

  • @shadowfilm7980
    @shadowfilm7980 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Good video. Love the movie, Goodfellas. Interesting to know more about him.

  • @geofftaylor8627
    @geofftaylor8627 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    If you're going to be a crook.Remember all your co workers.Are as bad or worse than yourself.

  • @rastalique8114
    @rastalique8114 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The Las Vegas library once had a presentation about organized crime and Henry Hill was on a panel. He was sober but the effects of his substance abuse was obvious. During one discussion, he just got up and walked around. He was sober, but not really there.

  • @halfsharona
    @halfsharona 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Good vid, great photos. Thank you

  • @timmotel5804
    @timmotel5804 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    WoW. Excellent. I loved the movie and learned some bits and pieces of Henry over the years. This is a very interesting and educational history. Thank You So Much. Merry Christmas.

  • @christopherberryhill3802
    @christopherberryhill3802 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

    • @Ishbikes
      @Ishbikes ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Until it’s time to pay for my actions

    • @jaeboston9228
      @jaeboston9228 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Me too except I was to scared of prison. As a young fella coming up, we had our crews. Small little heists through coordination and collaboration. However, I was scared straight after a heists at a University. A large drug shipment to one of the students. I was 17 and my buddy and I got nailed for armed robbery. Being dumb and naive, I didn't think it was so terrible. We did those type of capers regularly. Little did I know, they wanted to put me away for years. My mother got me super attorney and told me this was the last time. After working with my attorney, I got counseling, enrolled in college. Went to court and received probation. I graduated received my B.S. degree earned a commission as an Army Officer. I went on to have a great career with numerous awards and decorations. I look back on those early years and am extremely thankful, I wised up. I'll never forget what my father said before he died and I was an officer. " son, I knew you would be a big crook or become somebody successful. I am glad you didn't become a crook." The 70s was my time for growth.

    • @isitoveryet9525
      @isitoveryet9525 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Follow your dreams!

    • @kharbear53
      @kharbear53 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You know I’d go from rags to riches, if you would only say you care

    • @Vanessa-sw9vg
      @Vanessa-sw9vg ปีที่แล้ว +2

      One of my favorite lines 😊

  • @CrookedSkew
    @CrookedSkew ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Really great documentary video and I do appreciate the Half Life two backing soundtrack. Kelly Bailey would be proud!

  • @sham421
    @sham421 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “according to him”… that is the defining quote of this video and Mr Hill.

  • @faceplate7461
    @faceplate7461 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    really good! perfect narration. Very engaging video!

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      R U A bottom feeder?

  • @redmustangredmustang
    @redmustangredmustang 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    In the end, Hill's hell was not in prison but being alone and going from city to city using it up and going onto the next one. in the end, he died alone almost penniless and his demons which already consumed him for years.

    • @GoodfellaHenry
      @GoodfellaHenry 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Your so wrong so wrong he didn't die alone he was loved

    • @GoodfellaHenry
      @GoodfellaHenry 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And didn't die penniless

  • @michelob81
    @michelob81 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Great insight. My obsession with movies and story's like this has to be unhealthy. Usually Irish American stuff but the movies mentioned here will be watched a hundred years from now. You just earned a new subscriber. Btw it's a lot less threatening watching from where I am in Ireland 😊

    • @jplonsdale7242
      @jplonsdale7242 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was a kid in the 80s and parents weren't as clued up back then and they classed the video player and VHS tapes as a good babysitter. I spent hours watching all the horrors, action and kung-fu movies I could. By a young age I felt desensitised to hard-core violence and blood and gore. Think I was 14 or 15 when Goodfellas came on TV and it had me hooked from the very beginning. I classed it as more terrifying than any horror because it was real, had happened and the violence felt raw and authentic. I had an immature and naivety and I thought these mafia types could bully or attack anyone and get away with it which made them deadly. That movie got burnt into my mind I must have seen it dozens of times over the years. Up until that movie I'd never heard of scorsese but the same channel was doing a scorsese month and next was raging bull

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your kidding right Ireland is even worse than america

    • @JohnDaubSuperfan369
      @JohnDaubSuperfan369 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You know there's organised crime in Ireland too? They're nearly as laughable as their American counterparts, it's a real hoot to read about all the young tracksuit laden lads whose bodies are being found in bin bags littered across Dublin. I can almost imagine the scene, two paddies trying to chop a body to pieces in some shitty council flat's garden shed 😂 Shame they're not giving the gardaí a similar treatment.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      RUA bottom feeder?

    • @robertmaybeth3434
      @robertmaybeth3434 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why unhealthy? It's perfectly normal fixation. Millions of people around the world who devour Goodfellas and Sopranos don't think it's unhealthy. More like normal.

  • @tommygun6028
    @tommygun6028 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    great show !!!!

  • @Josh-hr5mc
    @Josh-hr5mc ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Outstanding content creator

  • @24tommyst
    @24tommyst 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Untreated ADHD can sometimes lead to conduct disorder which leads to ASPD. Henry seems like such a case. He's no "tough guy" aka psychopath.

  • @vicfedorov2448
    @vicfedorov2448 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I played basketball with Henry when he was in the witness protection program but I only learned it was him recently

    • @showcrime
      @showcrime  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Really? If you don't mind telling how and where it was

    • @ssp9344
      @ssp9344 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was he any good?

  • @davidspencer9497
    @davidspencer9497 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very good documentary about the Movie. Good job 👍

  • @birdmandrugstories
    @birdmandrugstories ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great show man. Just subscribed. Hell yeah 🦅

    • @showcrime
      @showcrime  ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad you liked it, friend! 😉

  • @richyrich4672
    @richyrich4672 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    He got to live the rest of his life like a snook.

    • @bizcut
      @bizcut ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Schnook*

    • @grahamwhittle6817
      @grahamwhittle6817 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was a grass

    • @loucifer4205
      @loucifer4205 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@bizcut yeah, a snook is fish

    • @JT-sl3ui
      @JT-sl3ui 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ramen noodles with ketchup

    • @KrishnaSingh-ow1ie
      @KrishnaSingh-ow1ie 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He order spagethi and sauce and got noodle and ketchup. The thing about it spagethi was creatted in asia

  • @idonthavemonkey
    @idonthavemonkey ปีที่แล้ว +10

    If you get caught and turn informant for a lighter sentence, that's snitching. If someone puts a contract on your head and you turn informant, I wouldn't call that snitching.

    • @gporr7004
      @gporr7004 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sam with Sammy the Bill most people would disagree but they follow one story. Supposedly John was gonna take him out and snitch on him and things he did. So who in earth would not try and do it first? Why should Sammy have sat back knowing that? Now if it wasn’t that way, I would look at Sammy as a snitch

    • @idonthavemonkey
      @idonthavemonkey ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gporr7004 Yeah, I don't know too much about Sammy the Bull story, but from my limited knowledge, he was one of Gotti's top earners, and did a lot of his dirty work too, so I'm not sure why Gotti would want to take him out. Also, it may have happened, but I've never heard of a Don turning snitch, so I doubt Gotti would have snitched on Sammy. Most likely Sammy snitched to get a lighter sentence, and made up the story Gotti was gonna kill him to look better in the media.

    • @gporr7004
      @gporr7004 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@idonthavemonkey could be? But Gotti was no ordinary Don either

    • @geedee1264
      @geedee1264 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's not open to interpretation, you know what oath you're taking, you can't say I give up because it's turned too dangerous and expect to walk away, Sammy was a sociopath and a coward, like most of them

    • @idonthavemonkey
      @idonthavemonkey ปีที่แล้ว

      @@geedee1264 Maybe for made guys, but what about associates like Henry Hill? He never took an oath. I don't fault him for snitching at all.

  • @lgnrome
    @lgnrome 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Im glad I had the opportunity to meet Henry Hill in Long Beach 2010 . We talked and he shared about him new restraunt he had in Santa Monica with all his mothers recipes. He gave me an autographed picture with him when he was younger. We had a good talk.

  • @MrBlaqdave
    @MrBlaqdave 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Awesome video 🔥

  • @jimburg621
    @jimburg621 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    His call-in's to howard sterns show, where radio gold. Out of control to the end.

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 ปีที่แล้ว

      Proofread

    • @Rick_Cleland
      @Rick_Cleland ปีที่แล้ว

      It's really a shame, he was an alcoholic and Stern encouraged his drinking.

  • @sirchromiumdowns2015
    @sirchromiumdowns2015 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    That was really well done. I enjoyed the documentary. Good job.

    • @rg20322
      @rg20322 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      All total scumbags! Let's not glorify them.

  • @michaelrumfelt3106
    @michaelrumfelt3106 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    excellent video and well done

  • @theodorepetine7562
    @theodorepetine7562 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No problem it’s an excellent video thank you

  • @gabrielmaclean3291
    @gabrielmaclean3291 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Henry Hill wasn't respected

  • @CAROLUSPRIMA
    @CAROLUSPRIMA ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Guys I know how particular and knowledgable many of you are. But keep in mind this is a crime channel, not a mob channel. So cut this guy a little slack.
    I have no independent knowledge about the matter but I highly suspect that he’s doing the best he can.

    • @showcrime
      @showcrime  ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thank you for your support! You have no idea how right you are. I really have no goal to make a channel about mafiosi, although I will still publish videos about some famous mafiosi from time to time (a video about Al Capone is coming out soon). The purpose of the channel is to make videos about criminals. This includes con artists, mobsters, gangsters, drug dealers and serial killers. I may have taken on too much of a burden, but I think all of these topics will be of interest to my viewers. Usually everyone makes channels about either murderers or mobsters. Maybe that's right, but personally, I'm interested in all of these topics at once, and I want to share the information with all of you!

    • @mochans
      @mochans ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agree!

    • @jplonsdale7242
      @jplonsdale7242 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@showcrime if you do a video on Al Capone you will most likely have to mention Elliott Ness . It used to be a little known fact but lots of books have been released about it. After All the success Ness had with the untouchables he was put in charge of solving and arresting a brutal and savage serial killer but he never did he failed

    • @showcrime
      @showcrime  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jplonsdale7242 Thanks for the tip! The Capone video has been on the channel for a while now and it talks about Elliott Ness as well.

    • @jplonsdale7242
      @jplonsdale7242 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @showcrime I just discovered your channel last night so I'll look forward to working my way through your videos and finding that one. I think the serial killer was called the mad butcher he was a savage and would chop bodies up into pieces

  • @mikeybraz915
    @mikeybraz915 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video

  • @jamesmalcolm6976
    @jamesmalcolm6976 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good job, subbed

  • @asullivan4047
    @asullivan4047 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job making it easier for viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Class A research project. When Uncle Henry became involved with the narcotics trafficking trade. He became a degenerate low life. He didn't seem to be very concerned about those poor lost souls. Who suffered a hellish life of narcotics addiction. Hopefully his final years were in misery.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      RUA bottom feeder?

  • @kelco64
    @kelco64 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very interesting! I think Henry thought he was much bigger than he was. But some brutal stuff, just the same. Thanks!

  • @dcyork2703
    @dcyork2703 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Howard sterns interviews with Henry are legendary

  • @mtp4430
    @mtp4430 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I had no idea that Spencer Tracy was in the Irish Mafia LOL
    When mentioning the Irish mafia, the picture had Spencer Tracy in it.
    Jimmy Burkes Favorite Pastime was stuffing the infant's of his adversaries in the freezer so they could listen to them cry? Guess he didn't know baseball was the national pastime like the rest of us. That doesn't quite fit the bill of a pastime in my book. It's more like the cold-blooded bargaining tactic of a twisted individual. I enjoyed your video though 👍

  • @josron6088
    @josron6088 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I'm pretty sure Henry had a lot more blood on his hands than he would admit. It's really smart not to talk about it.

  • @misterwolf9227
    @misterwolf9227 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow...I loved that movie... Ray was a awesome actor,One of my fave's in that movie "Good fellas". He was a bad dude,

  • @ponyboycurtis3795
    @ponyboycurtis3795 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Legend has it that the labrador dog on the thumbnail who bought Jimmy Burke in is still roaming the New York area.

  • @pooddescrewch8718
    @pooddescrewch8718 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Henry Hill managed to live a longer life than Ray Liotta

  • @neinsager3236
    @neinsager3236 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster".

    • @Rick_Cleland
      @Rick_Cleland ปีที่แล้ว

      👀

    • @charliem4867
      @charliem4867 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This quote comes from people who know nothing about the mafia 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴

  • @TERoss-jk9ny
    @TERoss-jk9ny 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I always remember Mike Franses’ comments on Henry Hill.
    “The Henry Hill I was around was very different that the way he was portrayed in the movie”. He didn’t actually bad mouth Henry, but he didn’t call him a saint either.

  • @IHS333
    @IHS333 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    It’s romantic to think of being part of the mob until you’re in the crew of Jimmy Burke, who will lock your children in a refrigerator

    • @Fucknuts4u
      @Fucknuts4u ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There is nothing romantic about it, they are disgusting backstabbing degenerates...don't let the movies fool you.

    • @georgeedward1691
      @georgeedward1691 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jimmy was hard as they come. Jimmy was the guy who rooted for the bad guys in the movies. It's just too bad he couldn't stick Karen and Henry in that freezer.

    • @serendpity3478
      @serendpity3478 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@georgeedward1691 How tough do you need to be to stuff an infant into a refrigerator & get off on hearing their death agony as they freeze?
      Fuxake. He was a psychopathic thief.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Torture is what all kids crave!

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@georgeedward1691 RUA bottom feeder?

  • @matthewennen9311
    @matthewennen9311 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This was a good documentry about henry my most faverite thing about goodfellas was the sound track the end music of the movie was a masterpeace

    • @showcrime
      @showcrime  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you! Goodfellas, without a doubt, a legendary movie and, like you said, there's a great soundtrack

  • @CYCLONE4499
    @CYCLONE4499 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The bottom line is if he didn't go FED Paulie or Jimmy would've had him wacked in no time due to his drug issues and the Lufthansa deal. He was a loose end to Jimmy and Henry was smart enough to know when it was getting too cold to stay outside. Personally I think he got lucky. He probably came close a few times to someone taking him out even after all those guys went to prison.
    Money and power is a seductive thing. Even more so when you never had it.

    • @jaed2630
      @jaed2630 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And willing to put a gun in someone's mouth and make them do what they wanted them to do. Those guys were nothing but scum. Scorsese did a good job giving them some charm. All heartless thugs

  • @leenettywilson528
    @leenettywilson528 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have seen some story's of henry hill and I will say this one I have watched is a good one its a good watch and I like the different footage , well done mate I wish u all the look on what ya want to achieve godbless you,

    • @showcrime
      @showcrime  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you so much for such kind words! I will try to do even better! May everything be good for you too 😉

    • @leenettywilson528
      @leenettywilson528 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@showcrime nice 1 for the msge I like it wen I see people trying to do good for there self's and for others I swear if this is ur first time doing these story's wow that's brilliant and even if it is not ur first time doing ur story's ur good in fact ur very good and I really enjoyed ur video of henry hill that guy certainly had someone watching over him in that life he was in and the last 20 years or so he defiantly had a guardian angel watching over him because even wen he was in witness protection he couldn't stay out of trouble I know towards the end he couldn't really live with been a informer but he thought of his kids and family a lot of people will say he just thought of his self maybe but that life he was in is a dead end street I suppose but he did last long but the alcoholism and the drugs he was taking was too get threw everyday mad stuff hay mate I did see some comments about you getting a few names wrong of places ect but come on we all carnt be perfect it certainly didn't ruin it for me to be honest I didn't notice real any mistakes in the video , in a few month's ur views will be sky high mark my word pal, all best I really mean that for you god bless you,

  • @carlito7351
    @carlito7351 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Paul Sorvino should've gotten a bigger part. He was a great actor also. Hardly mentioned much. I always like him. R.I.P. 😢

  • @williamshakespeare9815
    @williamshakespeare9815 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Most people say he wasnt that well respected. He was a junkie and alcoholic. Franzese said he chased him out of clubs.

    • @jimjohnson1811
      @jimjohnson1811 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Michael likes to exaggerate and glorify himself for his image it’s how he makes a living

  • @MrHydenSeek
    @MrHydenSeek 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good video covers most everything proper enough.

  • @tonydilucente2342
    @tonydilucente2342 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice little documentary.

  • @nc732
    @nc732 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Apologize? Are you nuts? They ought to be thanking you for this stellar content...I can't speak 4 everyone, but I appreciate you. (Just a fun fact. My mother raised a beautiful young girl alongside us kids. We didn't officially adopt her. But she grew up in my home. Lived with us. Vacationed with us. 24/7. That little girls parents were struggling and she ended up with us. The broken family structure was bc of the death of her grandfather, Martin Krugman. His death wrecked the family. She's my unofficial baby sister. We are more than happy to have her with us ❤)

  • @Rayman1971
    @Rayman1971 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Absolute evil these guys are.....sickening

  • @JOE-52-44
    @JOE-52-44 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love these shows so much

  • @MrJonesy2121
    @MrJonesy2121 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The way the narrator is gushing over Henry hill tells me he. Never met any real gangsters before

  • @Ronin4614
    @Ronin4614 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Great video, but; you slaughtered a few names and that really stood out.
    So very sorry over the loss of Ray Liotta. Rest In God’s Own Peace, Ray; and thank you.

  • @Queengigi1991
    @Queengigi1991 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    How come no one talks about Tommy attempting to rape Karen or how Karen was sleeping with Paul

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not enough bottomfeeders online, Cupcake? Whatever will you do? OH MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @mikeoxbig4901
    @mikeoxbig4901 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    His sons description pretty much sums it up.

  • @fredricksmith-something.2125
    @fredricksmith-something.2125 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    How many of these Mob bosses and lieutenant eventually turned snitch?
    Hill is not alone.

    • @desertdog5397
      @desertdog5397 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      everyday it seems more and more...are on youtube...

    • @pmaigotthat7211
      @pmaigotthat7211 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Far fewer than street gang members

    • @adamirishconundrum851
      @adamirishconundrum851 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No gangsters on TH-cam just stool pigeons

    • @chasecooper1740
      @chasecooper1740 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pmaigotthat7211many street gang members are kids…

    • @pmaigotthat7211
      @pmaigotthat7211 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@chasecooper1740 and many arent

  • @mikekolczynski5665
    @mikekolczynski5665 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Paul lived in an ordinary house in Island Park, NY. We knew he was connected and didn't mess with him as kids.

    • @showcrime
      @showcrime  ปีที่แล้ว

      Did you really know Paul Vario? Please, tell something else!

    • @mikekolczynski5665
      @mikekolczynski5665 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @SHOWCRIME Their was a gentleman named Phil Basile who owned a few clubs in Island Park. One club was called the Action House. Very big groups would perform there. When Henry got out of jail, he " worked " for Phil. The Action House became Speaks, then 50 Broadway, then Industry. Their is another You Tube channel called Mooneys Dash Cam. He actually goes to Paul's house.

  • @rebeccaberry4764
    @rebeccaberry4764 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Henry Hill, Children have done very well in life, so I would thank, Their mother for that. His son is a lawyer, not sure about his daughter, But I feel sure she's done very well!!

    • @FreeOpenTruth
      @FreeOpenTruth 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He has a newer family after divorcing Karen. Watch the 'pilot' named "Please Don't Kill Henry!"

  • @billyjean9484
    @billyjean9484 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Henry was an addict that barely knew these guys. He made thier stories his own to get out of a dope case. His wife and kids abandoned him & he died alone.

    • @angeloh58d
      @angeloh58d 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ans she was cheating on Henry with paul

  • @donnyfoster1859
    @donnyfoster1859 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Henry Hill ex wife called into Howard stern yrs ago, she was saying how Henry was into guys 😂

  • @tatoodfuk
    @tatoodfuk ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My Mother took me to see Goodfellas when I was 13… changed my life forever. Henry lived the craziest life.

    • @edub9716
      @edub9716 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks mom!

  • @Emojicatxd
    @Emojicatxd ปีที่แล้ว +138

    LOO-KAY-ZE, it's pronounced,not "LOO-CHASE"

    • @haroldfadorka3816
      @haroldfadorka3816 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I know the dude reading this is such a big We-Todd... Lou-Kay-Zee is another option.

    • @mikeoneil5770
      @mikeoneil5770 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Also, it’s Tommy De-Simone, not Tommy “Dessa Monay”

    • @operationlull3742
      @operationlull3742 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Louie the cheese fonzarelli

    • @haroldfadorka3816
      @haroldfadorka3816 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@operationlull3742 Git Awd da Hee-ah..

    • @mattsweeny3957
      @mattsweeny3957 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ha ha..this guy ain't from the 5 boros....is he? Matt

  • @carlobalzer3238
    @carlobalzer3238 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a great story

  • @fiddlestyk
    @fiddlestyk ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've never heard of the "Lou Cheese Family" 😊 Great video though. Great narration voice!

    • @Damidas
      @Damidas 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's probably an AI voice generator

  • @robertjolly3021
    @robertjolly3021 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Great piece, Can't blame him at all for turning informant. They all do it
    Just like Sammy
    Both of them were also able to avoid being whacked. That's a great feat in itself !! 😎😎

    • @johnv6806
      @johnv6806 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I am astounded you would put Hill in the same paragraph as Sammy the bull. Shame on you!

    • @Revolver1981
      @Revolver1981 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@johnv6806 Henry Hill was clearly a good earner for the mob otherwise they wouldn't have kept him around. Don't listen to idiots like Michael Franzese when he says Goodfellas made Hill look bigger than he really was.

    • @bb8942
      @bb8942 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Revolver1981 sooo we shouldn't listen to a former mobster, but yet we should listen to a nobody like you on what is correct or not about the mob!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @Ishbikes
      @Ishbikes ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Revolver1981 so who should we listen to? You? They certainly did make Henry seem as if he was a MADE MAN.

    • @Ishbikes
      @Ishbikes ปีที่แล้ว

      Don’t compare Sammy to Henry. Sammy was/is a gangster through and through.

  • @drbigmdftnu
    @drbigmdftnu ปีที่แล้ว +8

    If it's true that Henry was on Jimmy's "whacklist" then flipping and going into Witsec was probably his only choice. If Jimmy didn't get him, Paulie would have for dealing.
    He seemed like a real weasel. There's a lot more to the issues with Tommy.

    • @nofatchicks2315
      @nofatchicks2315 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh ya? Spill the beans

    • @drbigmdftnu
      @drbigmdftnu ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nofatchicks2315 apparently Tommy tried to rape Karen Hill while Henry was in jail. Paulie was having an affair with Karen at the time. Paulie didn't like the rape attempt.

  • @thetechlibrarian
    @thetechlibrarian 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just realized how right Ray Liotta got the look on Henry Hills face down when there was violence going on and he didn’t want to take part, but had to fake like he enjoyed it at least if Henry Hill is to be believed, but Ray Lea really nailed that look

  • @robertmaybeth3434
    @robertmaybeth3434 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The book "Wiseguy" is even more fascinating than the movie, it tells a whole lot more about Hendry's crazy life.

  • @Filthy_Larry
    @Filthy_Larry ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The mafia in the 70’s seemed like a fun trade.

    • @josh24441
      @josh24441 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yea it’ll be fun until someone shoots you in the back of the head because they didn’t want to share the money with you….

    • @sergeantscumbag2116
      @sergeantscumbag2116 ปีที่แล้ว

      The 50s and 60s must have been awesome

  • @spartan7595
    @spartan7595 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That is a mugshot of Pat Spirito of Philadelphia not Billy Batts...