Road to Perdition (2002) (Movie)

format_quote Michael Sullivan: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry... I'm sorry.

stars  (at around 4 mins) When Michael Sullivan undresses himself to get ready for dinner the pistol that his son sees is a "Colt M 1911 A1 .45". The pistol was used up until 1992 as the US-Army standard pistol.

stars  The scene where John Rooney (Paul Newman) and Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks) are playing the piano together, was originally supposed to be an Irish dance sequence shared between the two of them.

stars  Sam Mendes:  (Water marks the event of a death) 

stars  Prior to the brief travel scene along the "Road to Perdition," with Michael Sullivan Jr. (Tyler Hoechlin) hanging out a car window as they near their destination, the local road commission oiled the gravel surface of rural road, shoulder-to-shoulder, to prevent dust clouds. But when filming began, the Model A was attached to an equipment trailer pulled by a large utility truck and a member of the crew was squatting near the rear of the antique car armed with a canister and making fake dust.

stars  According to author Max Allan Collins, the "Road to Perdition" graphic novel was an American homage to the Manga series "Lone Wolf and Cub" by Kazuo Koike. Collins quotes Koike at the beginning of the book: "You must choose a road for yourself".