Goodfellas: Jimmy Conway Introduction

boom Oh it was a glorious time wise guys were all over the place it was before Appalachia and before crazy Joe decided to take on a boss and start a war it was when I met the world it was when I first met Jimmy Conway he could have been more than 28 or 29 at the time but it was already a legend he'd walk in the door and everybody who worked the room just went wild he give the doorman a hundred just for opening the door he'd shove hundreds in the pockets of the dealers and all the guys that ran the games the bartender got a hundred just for keeping the ice cubes cold the citizen I can meet the kid Henry see Jimmy was one of the most feared guys in the city he was first locked up at 11 and he was doing hits for mob bosses when he was 16 he hits never bothered Jimmy it was business but what Jimmy really loved to do what he really loved to do was steal I mean he actually enjoyed it Jimmy was the kind of guy who rooted for the bad guys in the movies we want you might know who we are we know who you are man you know he was one of the city's biggest hijackers of booze cigarettes razor blades shrimp and lobsters shrimp and lobsters were best they went really fast and almost all of them were guineas I mean they just gave it up no problem they called them Jimmy the gent Tommy helped the way drivers loved them they used to tip him off about their really good loads and of course everybody got a piece

Channel: ComfortablyNumbed

Views: 2,083,196

Keywords: Goodfellas, Joe, Pesci, Robert, Deniro, Ray, Liotta, Martin, Scorsese, Jimmy, Conway, Introductoin

Id: JG3mhtojm8Y

Length: 2min 15sec (135 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 17 2011