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Road to Perdition (2002) More at IMDbPro »

Not Quite. Max Allan Collins was partially inspired by the Baby Cart Assassin film/manga series (a.k.a. Lone Wolf and Cub), but he based his story more-or-less directly on real events involving Irish gangster John Looney, federal lawman Eliot Ness and Chicago mobsters Al Capone and Frank Nitti. There was a real-life lieutenant of Looney who was betrayed by his superior.

No, he didn't take the money and that was the whole reason he killed Mr. Kelly. His message to the Rooneys was that he couldn't be bought off and would stop at nothing to avenge his family.

Conrad L. Hall was the Director of Photography in Road to Perdition. Hall died in 2003 due to complications from bladder cancer. His Oscar for Road to Perdition was posthumous and was accepted by his son Conrad W. Hall, who is also a cinematographer.