Main and important character list

Character list

Jacky: – British 27

The aspiring gangster Jacky is the Protagonist and brother to Jacky. Wise guy and head of  the small crew belonging to Big Joe. He supports his brother and Blind Eyes Frankie, believing in some of the old mafia traditions, them consisting of a larger community etc. Jacky can kill if necessary but rather manipulates others to do it for him. Jacky is in debt to Big Joe after borrowing money to pay off Gino’s gambling debt. Instead of being threatened after he failed to pay up, Big Joe offered him work in order to pay back his debts seeing him as an asset using his brother as a bargining chip. Jacky worked his way up from fleecing other people who owed debt to a trusted hoodlum for Big Joe who put him in charge of a bank robbery that was pulled off successfully.

Gino: –British, 25

Brother to Jacky with an addiction for gambling constantly forcing him into a life of crime. Gino is the main reason Jacky turned to Big Joe for money only to be unable to pay it back.  He constantly looks for ways to get money and oftern makes side deals etc, behind his brother's back. He has no sense of loyalty to anybody and becomes increasingly desperate as time and the film progresses.

Irish: - British, 28

Irish is in the business for the money and the money alone. Though he believes in the same principles of the mafia that Jacky does, he does not care to participate in any of them. After a short stretch in prison he found himself abandoned by his previous gang, the Irish gang in Boston headed by Jack Sullivan. He moved to Britain and was placed with Jacky on hit on a rival gang. Since, he was involved in the successful bank robbery he has participated in almost all jobs with Jacky. He is in love with a whore, who also carries his disabled child. Afraid of his colleagues' reaction he hides this truth. 

Tony: -British, 32

Tony has very traditional ethics. He was brought up surrounded by gangsters, idolising them and the culture associated. He begins to work for Joe's gang at an early age doing simple jobs such as hiding evidence and small scale vandalism. Tony is very conservative, showing manhood through violence and aggression etc. He spent a total of 12 years in prison, from being convicted of man slaughter. His marriage to his wife is not successful. There is often friction between them and Tony see's his wife as an enemy and being tied to one person is against his "principles". 

Fadge (Johnny): -Italian American, 20

Joe feels obligated to provide an income for his nephew after his mother died even though he is a junkie and a burden. He is nicknamed Fadge by Irish for his inability to do anything on his own and been soft. He was also put into Jacky’s gang to keep an eye on Irish due what seems to be disloyalty when he switched gangs when coming to New York. Johnny has not killed but can usually keep his cool in tough situations.

Big Joe: -Italian American, 57

Though relatively small fry compared to some of the older more established gangs, Big Joe is rich and influential. With several stakes in drug trafficking, arms dealing and with a turf that stretches from one of the poorest districts through to the other side of little Italy he has number of loan shark businesses. He grew up in little Italy and worked his way up from working for the local gang dealing drugs fleecing junkies and gamblers for the money they owed to Santiago Senior (who Joe eventually took over from).          

Marvin Magic Hands: -Australian, unknown

Marvin is the local weapons dealer who is secretly under Joe’s control. He is renowned for his flamboyant hand gestures (as illustrated by the camera concentrated on his hands). Nothing is really known about him other than he is Australian.

Jen: -American, 21

With a family in the police force, Jen leapt at the opportunity to be a member of the FBI. She was asked to go undercover as a gumar for one of the gangsters close to Joe, Tony, and accepted. While undercover she leaked a lot of information on Joe and the time, place and plan of the final bank robbery Tony, Irish and Fadge were going to pull off. Outgoing and head strong she often asks Tony of his work, playing off his stupidity,      

Blind Eye Frankie: -Italian American, 68

The surrogate father to Jacky and Gino, Blind Eye Frankie taught the brothers of the old Mafia traditions. A retired gangster Frankie used to work an italian gang in Brooklyn. He earned himself a reputation for himself by the time he was thirty and was almost a “made guy” but an internal struggle between the former boss and one of his sons resulted in the FBI essentially disbanding the gang and put Frankie in prison for twelve years. He was and did a little work for gangs all over New York. Finally he pledged loyalty to up and coming Joe and remained his advisor for the next fifteen years. He lost his eye in a shoot out in which he was the only survivor and retired at the age of sixty and since then lives in little Italy often making trips back to Sicily and giving advice to Jacky. 

Mary: -Caucasian American, 25

Mary is the girlfriend to Jacky and the only judge of Jacky’s actions etc. Outgoing yet fairly shy she was once a successful doctor but gave it up after meeting Jacky and relies on the profits Jacky makes.