It revealed rampant bribery, extortions, kickbacks to union officials, payoffs, theft, union-sponsored loan sharks, murder, and the mob""s tyrannical influence on New York""s waterfront.Postman"), Charlie and his buddies were attempting to collect from a pool hall owner and bookie, Joey ""Clams"" Scala (George Memmoli).A farm foreman (Robert Wilke) with wagons awaiting harvest workers, bellows to everyone hrough a megaphone: "Sackers, I need sackers.Chronologically, the film was the first story in the Hannibal saga - a prequel toThe Silence of the Lambs (1991).