Tales of Chinatown: Including The Screenplay Snakeheads: Chinese Illegal Imingrant Smugglers

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“Tales of Chinatown” starts in the late 1850s, when crazed Chinese tea merchant, Quimbo Appo, slashed to death Mary Fletcher, the landlord of the Chinatown tenement he resided in, with his Irish wife, the former Catherine Fitzpatrick, and their young half-breed son, George. Ms. Fletcher had made the deadly mistake of trying to stop the drunken and opium-crazed Appo from beating his wife into a bloody pulp.

Appo, convicted of murder, spent the rest of his life either in prison or in mental institutions, where he proclaimed himself “The King of the World.”

After his mother died in a shipping accident, George Appo supported himself by committing petty crimes, mostly in the Chinatown area. He became a master pickpocket, and by the 1890s, George Appo was known as, “the Most Successful Pickpocket in New York City's History."

Also included in “Tales of Chinatown” is the murder of Chinese comedian Ah Hoon, the vicious killing of a Chinese slave girl Bow Kum, called "The Little Flower," Mock Duk, the leader of Chinatown’s Hip Sing Tong, daredevil Steve Brodie, and the Caucasian Mayors of Chinatown - Chuck Connors and Johnny "Keyes" Canonico, the author, Joe Bruno's uncle.

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Snakeheads are Chinese gangsters, based both in China and in the United States, who smuggle Chinese immigrants into the United States.

The price is not cheap; $50,000 a head. A small percentage of the money is paid up front, but if the balance isn't paid off in due time, the illegal Chinese immigrants are beaten, tortured, and sometimes even killed.

After they arrive in America, the illegal immigrants are forced to work in Chinese restaurants, for pennies an hour. They toil in steaming kitchens for 12-18 hours a day, and after work, they are chained to the steam pipes in filthy rooms so they cannot escape.

“Snakeheads" is set in Manhattan’s Chinatown, where the Italian-American mob tries to horn in on the immense profits generated by the Snakeheads' human smuggling operation. The Italians want their piece of the action, and the Chinese gangsters violently resist .

Thrust into the middle of this warfare is an Italian-America detective, who falls in love with a Chinese businesswoman. Together, they attempt to foil the villains who profit on the backs of the defenseless illegal Chinese immigrants.

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