The movie, and true story, is about how Harold began working for the garbage industry in New Jersey only to find out that it was run by the mafia. Having been in and out of jail most of his...
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Title: A Deadly Business (TV Movie 1986)
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| Alan Arkin | ... | Harold Kaufman | |
| Armand Assante | ... | Charles Macaluso | |
| Jon Polito | ... | Vitola | |
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Raymond Serra | ... | DiNardi |
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George Morfogen | ... | Sordino |
| Michael Learned | ... | Ann | |
| James Rebhorn | ... | Corbett | |
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John Seitz | ... | Coglin |
| Marc Gomes | ... | Rand | |
| Stephen Pearlman | ... | Martin Prager | |
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Dave Nichols | ... | Mayor Thompson |
| Doug Lennox | ... | Bristol | |
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Marcia Diamond | ... | Mrs. Prager |
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Marilyn Boyle | ... | Supervisor |
| Bernard Behrens | ... | Purchasing Agent | |
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The movie, and true story, is about how Harold began working for the garbage industry in New Jersey only to find out that it was run by the mafia. Having been in and out of jail most of his life, Harold feared more jail time and so went to the FBI. Harold went undercover to get as much illegal information that he could. The information he got helped put away dozens of mafia men. Harold is currently in the witness protection program. Written by m-parisien@hotmail.com
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4 March 1986 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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This was a very good and forgotten TV movie that was shown on CBS once, and I don't think was ever aired again, anywhere-I'm lucky for my mother to have recorded it. Alan arkins' performance along with the performance of Michael Learned as Kaufmans' girlfriend, Ray Serra, and Jon Polito were fantastic. Original soundtrack flows superb. However this story is solely according to Harold Kaufman and the NJ Starledger news paper, and it makes Kaufman out to be an aging not-so-bad thief that suddenly has a crisis of conscience, in fact in a Starledger article released on the date the movie was aired, Kaufman admitted Michael Learneds' character never existed and was created for dramatic purposes