Gangs of New York (10/12) Movie CLIP - Happy Jack (2002) HD

Gangs of New York movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don’t miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: Happy Jack (John C. Reilly) attempts to knock off Amsterdam (Leonardo DiCaprio) before the Dead Rabbits grow too strong. FILM DESCRIPTION: The violent rise of gangland power in New York City at a time of massive political corruption and the city’s evolution into a cultural melting pot set the stage for this lavish historical epic, which director Martin Scorsese finally brought to the screen almost 30 years after he first began to plan the project. In 1846, as waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points, a number of citizens of British and Dutch heritage who were born in the United States began making an open display of their resentment toward the new arrivals. William Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis), better known as “Bill the Butcher“ for his deadly skill with a knife, bands