Kill the Irishman

Kill the Irishman tells the story of Danny Greene, an Irish-American who rises through the criminal underworld of 1970s Cleveland and ends up at the centre of a war with the Italian mafia. Refusing to bow to the larger organisation, he becomes a target, and his stubborn resistance turns the city into a battleground. The film is based on the true events surrounding Greene and the bombing campaign that shook Cleveland in 1976, drawing on Rick Porrello's book about the mob war that damaged organised crime across the United States.

Jonathan Hensleigh directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Jeremy Walters, placing the film second in his directing career, between The Punisher in 2004 and The Ice Road in 2021. Ray Stevenson plays Danny Greene, with Vincent D'Onofrio as John Nardi, Christopher Walken as Shondor Birns, Val Kilmer as Joe Manditski, Linda Cardellini as Joan Madigan and Tony Darrow as Mikey Mendarolo among a credited cast of twenty-seven. The film runs 106 minutes.

Released in March 2011, Kill the Irishman took in roughly one million dollars worldwide, a modest return for a production backed by several independent companies. On TMDB it holds a rating of 6.8 out of 10 from 731 votes, indicating a generally positive but not overwhelming response from viewers.