Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Playing for the mob / ESPN Films presents a Triple Threat TV and Trenton Makes Productions production ; produced by Andrew Billman, Joe Lavine, Matt McDonald, Andrew Morreale, Ouisie Shapiro ; directed by Joe Lavine, Cayman Grant.

Publisher, Date:

[Bristol, Connecticut?] : ESPN Home Entertainment, [2015]

Owensboro, KY : Distributed by Team Marketing, [2015]

Description:

1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color with black and sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Set in the seemingly golden world of college basketball, this intriguing film tells the true story behind the 1990 Martin Scorsese classic, Goodfellas, and how mobster Henry Hill helped orchestrate fixing of Boston College basketball games during the 1978-79 season.

Series:

30 for 30 ; season II, number 20

30 for 30 ; season 2, no. 20.

Subjects:

Hill, Henry, 1943-2012.

Boston College Eagles (Basketball team) -- History.

Gangsters -- United States -- Biography.

Basketball teams -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.

Basketball -- Betting -- United States.

Basketball -- Corrupt practices -- United States.

Basketball -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.

College sports -- Corrupt practices -- United States.