Today, cinema is, and has been for while, the first American industry. Like any important industry, it has its dark sides, including attracting dirty money for laundering. The Mafia has always coveted cinema. Since 1934, cinema has provided for casinos, laundered money in Boston banks under Neapolitan Mafia control, as denounced by the 1982 American Senatorial Commission.

After the 1929 crash, film studios almost went bankrupt and had to cut down the actors’ salaries by 30% or 50%.
As a form of resistance, actors created their own syndicate, the Screen Actors Guild, at a time when this very word caused uproar in the United States.

Great moguls like Walt Disney for example, were short of compromise, and called the gangsters for help. They found themselves trapped by these bandits, in turn asking for ransom.
This film also tells Ronald Reagan’s fabulous story and the drug ties that linked him to the Mafia all along the road leading him
from Hollywood to the White House.