Musical questions
Does anyone know what piece is playing in the background of the scene where the conscience-stricken Tony is being comforted by his mother? It sounds like a familiar popular tune from the Twenties or perhaps earlier, a sentimental piece that might have been an Italian song. ( perhaps " Come Back to Sorrento" or " The Rosary"?)
It took me a while to place the music that accompanies the funeral scene, but it's the middle movement from Chopin's Funeral March, not the better known melody of the opening part.
Author Laurence Bergreen in his biography of Al Capone says that the funeral scene includes newsreel footage of the actual 1924 funeral procession for Chicago gangster Dion O'Banion, edited together with scenes of the actors portraying the " swell send-off" they're having for the murdered Tony.
And when he crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him