1970 www.amazon.com Watch the full film: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com A documentary film about convicted felon Joe Scanlan nicknamed "Shotgun Joe." The film follows Scanlan in prison and his interaction with prisoners, staff, and family. Scanlon was killed in 1978 by Patriarca associates Nicholas "Nicky" Pari and Andy Merola. The Patriarca crime family is an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in New England, specifically Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts, and is part of the Italian-American Mafia or "La Cosa Nostra". The Patriarca crime family is currently considered one of the most active mob families outside of New York City. The New England-based Mafia family that would later be known as the Patriarca crime family was founded by Gaspare Messina in 1916, and he led the family until his retirement in 1924. Messina was then succeeded by Phil Buccola. Under Buccola the family increased its power and wealth, mostly through loan sharking, gambling, and bootlegging. Buccola remained the boss of the crime family for thirty years before retiring to Sicily in 1954. He was succeeded by Raymond "Il Patrone" Patriarca. In 1954 Patriarca made drastic changes in the family, the biggest being moving the family's base of operations to Providence, Rhode Island. He ran his family from the National Cigarette Service Company and Coin-O-Matic Distributors, a vending machine and pinball business on Atwells Avenue in an area known as Federal Hill. The business ...