On November 14, 1957, over 100 of the most notorious organized crime figures from all over the United States held a historic meeting in the small town of Apalachin, New York.

The meeting was ordered by Vito Genovese, who at the time successfully eliminated two of his biggest rivals, Frank Costello and Albert Anastasia.

Edgar Croswell, a 40-year-old divorced state trooper who lived in the police station, began noticing strange and unusual activity in the small town.

A semi-retired mobster named Joseph Barbara, known as "Joe the Barber" had recently bought a nearby ginger ale bottling plant and a 53-acre estate just outside of town.

[5] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 28 out of 100, based on four critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.