Documentary
“If you were playing against me I controlled you. I controlled your money. I controlled the outcome of the game!”
John "Fast Jack" Farrell was the last of the old-time card and dice hustlers in America. His trade was cultivated in the back of his Irish pub and mastered in the gritty underworld of illegal gambling. Underground gambling has long been a world where a motley cast of characters gather: hustlers & suckers, sinners & saints, & stone-cold killers without restraint. This is the world where Jack operated, this is the world that Jack dominated. These are the exploits of the last hustler...
Most of the general public has never heard the term card or dice mechanic. In the underworld, a mechanic is someone that can fix a game. Synonyms include hustler, cross roader, and sleight of hand artist. Jack was the New England mafia's (Patriarca Family) expert card & dice mechanic. He had no equal. He answered directly to underboss Billy Grasso... the most viscous gangster the region has ever known. It’s Goodfellas meets The Sting. Pull up a chair and fill your glass, this is The Last Hustler.
“He is the best. The best. He has done this all over the world ”
From his headquarters in Providence, Rhode Island, Raymond Patriarca ruled the New England Cosa Nostra family with an iron fist for over 30 years. Those that dared challenge him met an untimely demise. Upon his death in 1984 the family would spiral into chaos, culminating in a civil war.
“Let me tell you something. I’ve been in the crap business when you weren’t born, cocksucker that you are. Don’t you ever, ever have a pair of dice go more than one and a half or two hours without replacing it with a brand new set, & that goes in your fucking pocket and then they’re thrown down the fucking sewer. Do you understand that? That’s a fucking order...”
Historic Hit….
Claymore Productions proudly presents The Last Hustler, an unprecedented look into the secret subculture of the hustler and its role in the destruction of an infamous mafia family.