Joe Bruno

Tales of Chinatown Joe Bruno

"And as a BONUS, you'll get absolutely FREE Snakeheads - Screenplay, Plus three BONUS FEATURES: The Cotton Club, Satan's Circus, and Typhoid Mary!"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.