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| Alain Delon, Dalila Di Lazzaro |
| Here's another excellent French thriller starring Alain Delon. The real treat however is his co- |
| star, Dalila Di Lazzaro who plays his girlfriend and has several topless scenes. Delon innocently |
| helps a car accident victim without realizing the man was shot. The two men who killed him are |
| now after Delon and make his life a living hell as they kill off all those he comes in contact |
| with. If you want to know who came up with the bullet through the keyhole shot Argento used |
| in OPERA, well Jacques Deray did it here 10 years earlier. A tale of paranoia, mixed with sex |
| Michele Massimo Tarantini |
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| George Hilton, Rosemary Dexter |
| George Hilton is a former hitman who's blackmailed into performing one last job. It doesn't go |
| well and he ends up hiding out at a young woman's (Rosemarie Dexter) place. Not only are the |
| police looking for him, but a group of Chinese killers are too (this leads to Hilton and George |
| Wang getting into a kungfu fight that was obviously influenced by the HK films of that time). |
| Hilton becomes more desperate as all sides close in on him. An offbeat thriller with many |
| changes of direction along the way. Hilton plays a real SOB in this one which makes for a nice |
| change of pace. Directed by Michele Massimo Tarantini. |
| Fabio testi, Enrico Maria Salerno |
| Rare crime film by Silvio (AMUCK) Amadio starring Fabio Testi as a farm worker who ends up |
| becoming a tough as hell cop because of a family tragedy involving the Mafia. Enrico Maria |
| Salerno plays his boss who is always asking him to tone down the violence! |
| Giuliano Gemma, Michele Placido, Eleonora Giorgi |
| Nino (Giuliano Gemma) is a hard working guy who has somehow pissed off someone important |
| enough that a hitman (Michele Placido) has been hired to kill him. Turns out a rich woman was |
| kidnapped and all who were involved are being brutally murdered. Nino has no idea why he's |
| considered as one of the guilty. Gritty crime film with Eleonora Giorgi and directed by Damiano |
| Kirk Douglas, Giuliano Gemma, Florinda Bolkan |
| This was released here as THE MASTER TOUCH and was cut. This version restores 13 minutes |
| to the film's running time. Kirk Douglas is an ex-con whose old boss wants him to pull off a |
| million dollar robbery. He teams up with an acrobat (Giuliano Gemma) to help him pull off the |
| job. Too bad he falls for Douglas' wife (Florinda Balkan) and together plan to double cross the |
| old guy. Bad mistake as Kirk will not be denied his revenge. The last 40 minutes are virtually |
| free of dialogue giving Ennio Morricone to go nuts with his music |
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Gian Maria Volonte, Tomas Milian, Ray Lovelock |
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Previous versions of this film (reviewed in ETC #15) looked like shit and were fake letterboxed |
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to boot!! Gee, I wonder who would do such a thing? Well, here's a great looking english |
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language copy that is letterboxed for real!! Carlo Lizzani's epic crime film starring Tomas Milian |
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as a cop in charge of a massive manhunt for 4 violent bank robbers. Gian Maria Volonte and |
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Bud Spencer, Philip Michael Thomas |
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Detective Jack Costello (aka Detective Extra-Large) and his co-hort (Phillip Michael Thomas) |
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are back in this Enzo Castellari directed action film. This time we learn how the two got |
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together to fight crime on the mean streets of Miami. A young woman, posing as a maid at a |
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ritzy party, steals a watch without realizing it contains microfilm. She ends up involving Costello |
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(Bud Spencer) in her shenanigans, much to his regret. |
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Bud Spencer, Philip Michael Thomas |
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Bud Spencer returns as Detective Extralarge (the only gumshoe who makes Cannon look like |
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the Thin Man!). This one has a supernatural bent as Dionne Warwick (I guess she was in |
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between Psychic Network gigs) stars as a voodoo priestess. A girl commits suicide, repeatedly |
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stabbing herself in front of her boyfriend. Was she under the control of a cult or did he really |
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kill her? Big Bud is hired to find out. |
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Claudio Cassinelli, Silvia Dionisio |
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Letterboxed print. By the director of WEAPONS OF DEATH (Mario Caiano), this brutal crime film |
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is about a robbery gone horribly wrong. Claudio Cassinelli and John Steiner are two thugs who |
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kill innocent people and take hostages during their escape. Steiner and his buddies try and kill |
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Cassinelli which turns out to be a BIG mistake as he hunts them down and kills them like dogs. |
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Silvia Dionisio provides the nudity in this seventies crime classic. |
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Franco Nero, Dalila Di Lazzaro |
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Franco Nero stars as a old man (actually he's not, he uses make-up to fool his fellow co- |
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workers) who plans on robbing his workplace but the plot is discovered by a fellow worker |
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(Dalila Di Lazzaro) which certainly complicates things. A great jazz score by Ennio Morricone |
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Alain Delon, Jean Paul Belmondo |
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Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo star as two rival gangsters during the thirties who decide |
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to become partners and work their way up the criminal ladder. Much like a violent, classic |
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Warner Brothers gangster flick, Delon and Belmondo have rarely been better. Here's a bit of |
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trivia, Porno star Rocco Sieffredi took his name from the Delon's character in this film! $ |
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Alain Delon, Catherine Rouvert |
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One of the very best French gangster films ever!! This is the sequel to BORSALINO (which if |
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you haven't seen you really should as it stars Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo) and this |
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time around Rocco (Delon) is out for revenge. His partner was killed in the previous film and |
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the mobster who gave the order is now running all the crime in France. Delon slowly gathers |
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his forces for an all out war!! This is a very violent and somber film (not like the first one) and |
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really delivers. Directed by Jacque Deray and co-starring Catherine Rouvet. |
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For fans of the fat man, Bud Spencer. Directed by Michele Lupo |
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George Sanders, Eric Portman, Richard Johnson |
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George Sanders, Richard Johnson and Eric Portman star in this remake of John Huston's THE |
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ASPHALT JUNGLE. Sanders plays a man who wants to steal the jewels of King Tutankhamen. he |
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recruits his gang but things don't quite work out |
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Franco Nero, Lorredana Cannata |
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In Italian with English subtitles, letterboxed print. Gritty 3+hours crime film starring Franco |
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Nero and Lorredana Cannata (LA DONNA LUPO). The Mafia is kidnapping wealthy industrialist's |
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children and the cops can't get any of the affected families to cooperate |
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Harvey Keitel, Angelina Molina, Francisco Rabal |
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Rare english language copy of this very bloody crime film by of all people, Lina Wermuller!! |
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Harvey Keitel (who plays a violent bastard who, when he's not screwing his women, he's |
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beating the crap out of them!) and Angelina Molina star. She's trying to get Harvey to break |
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free from crime and he of course wants no part of that. Francisco Rabal co-stars. $15 |
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Bud Spencer, Philip Michael Thomas |
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Bud Spencer is back as Detective Extralarge, the fattest lawman in Miami. A star football player |
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is murdered and implicated in a cocaine deal. Spencer and his assistant played by Philip |
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Michael Thomas (MIAMI VICE), are hired by the dead player's Mom to discover what really |
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happened. Michael Forest co-stars |
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Enrico Maria Salerno, Francois fabian |
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Letterboxed print. A string of violent jewel robberies force a police Inspector (Enrico Maria |
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Salerno) to get rough with the city's criminal scum. Things take a turn for the worse when he's |
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confronted with the murder and necrophilic violation of a 16 year old girl. He tracks the jewel |
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robbers to a train where they are in the process of looting the passengers when things go |
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wrong and a massacre ensues. He then enters a gay bar, picks up a patron and threatens to |
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beat him up if he doesn't reveal who the murderer of the 16 year old is (she was a prostitute |
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who might talk about her important clients). Lots of nudity in this crime film by Romolo |
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Guerrieri with Francoise Fabian. |
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Senta Berger, Jean Yanne, Sterling hayden, Gordon Mitchell |
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Terrific French gangster film with Senta Berger, Sterling Hayden, Gordon Mitchell and Jeanne |
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Yanne and directed by Yves Boisset. Yanne is an ex-gangster who has to return to the thug life |
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to get revenge on those who killed his brother. Violent and bleak |
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Excellent French thriller by Georges (THE ROAD TO SALINA) Lautner. Beautiful blonde Mireille |
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Darc stars as a dead gangster's girlfriend who knows where he hid $100,000. The only problem |
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is all his old gangster buddies want to know too and are willing to do whatever's necessary to |
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Robert Ginty, Charles Napier |
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Excellent Italo-Cop film by Umberto Lenzi (who proves he's still the best when it comes to nasty |
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and violent action films). Robert Ginty stars as a cop hired by a woman to escort her and her |
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kids to a fancy awards party. Of course things go wrong and the woman's daughter is |
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kidnapped. He is told to back off the case which of course just pisses him off and causes him to |
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start kicking personal ass!! The film co-stars Charles Napier, Barbara Bingham, and Franco |
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Howard Ross, Karin Schubert, Stephen Boyd |
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Here's another offbeat crime film by director Sergio (STREETKILLERS) Grieco. Howard Ross |
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stars as a guy who's out to screw the Mafia out of drugs and money. He does so but they |
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capture his girlfriend (Karin Schubert) and beat her up and rape her to force him to return the |
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goodies. Ross teams up with a American DEA man (Stephen Boyd) to turn the tables and |
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John Saxon, Lino Cappaliccio |
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Excellent Italo-Crime film starring John Saxon as a tough cop out to rid Italy of its violent |
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element, you know, the dregs of society. And if he has to use violence himself to do this, well |
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what the Hell! Lino Cappaliccio co-stars and Stelvio Massi directs. |
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Rod Taylor, William Smith, Ahna capri, Suzy Kendall |
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Incredibly violent detective film by Robert Clouse featuring Rod Taylor as Travis McGee, based |
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on the novel by John D MacDonald. Not only is sexy Suzy Kendall featured, but there is one of |
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the most violent fist fights between Rod Taylor and Big Bad William Smith ever portrayed on |
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the screen! This the uncut version and not an edited TV print. Ahna Capri co-stars. |
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Vince (Giorgio Ardisson) meets Wally, an old friend from high school, and they decide to hang |
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out together at a hotel in Rome a few days later. Vince shows up but Wally has disappeared |
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and the more Vince searches for Wally, the his life is in danger. This is sixties mixture of a Spy |
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and Giallo film, complimented by a jazzy score. Director Mino Guerrini's technique certainly |
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influenced Giulio Questi when he decided to make DEATH LAID AN EGG a year later |
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Paolo and Joe decide to go on a rape and murder spree. They start with an old woman and her |
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nubile neighbor before moving on to bigger and better things. It gets completely out of hand |
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when they hold a restaurant full of people hostage and start killing off the patrons until they get |
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a sizeable ransom. This film is like a cross between LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT and DOG DAY |
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AFTERNOON... Italian style! Ely Galleani from 5 DOLLS FROM AN AUGUST MOON stars |
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Christa Lang, Glenn Corbett, Anton Diffring |
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Sam Fuller goes Euro-trash in this film of an American private eye who's trying to recover a |
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photo of a US senator in a compromising position from a group who specializes in this type of |
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blackmail. Fuller peppers the film with tons of film jokes (KISS OF DEATH & PSYCHO to name |
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just two), violence and sleaze. The film stars Glenn Corbett, Christa Lang and Anton Diffring, |
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plus a music score by the German group Can |
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Letterboxed print. Excellent Italian crime film by Franco Prosperi starring Luc Merenda as a |
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tough cop who goes nuts when his hooker girlfriend(Janet Agren) disappears. Lots of violent |
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Tano Cimarossa, Al Cliver |
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Letterboxed print. Al Cliver does his Maurizio Merli imitation in this violent crime/revenge |
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thriller. He's a tough cop who bends the long arm of the law to send criminals to jail (or Hell if |
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need be). Three of the worst criminals alive escape from prison and begin an unbelievable |
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crime spree involving robbery, kidnapping and rape. When they run over the young daughter |
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of a decent man, he goes psycho and vows revenge. An all out mix of DEATH WISH and the |
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usual nilhistic Italo-crime film elements |
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Luc Merenda, Tomas Milian, Katia Christine |
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Letterboxed print. Luc Merenda plays a cop who opens the film by massacring a gang of |
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kidnappers (I guess in Italy you don't have to read them their rights before you mow them |
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down). Then, when he discovers the Police Commissioner was murdered, he really goes off the |
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deep end! He teams up with an underworld figure (Tomas Milian) and together they track down |
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the ones responsible. Stelvio Massi directs and Katia Christine plays the love interest. |
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Bud Spencer, Ursula Andress |
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Bud spencer plays an ex-lawman who must try and save a Diva (played by the still luscious |
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Ursula Andress) from the mob before they can kill her. Will the big man save the day? Hell yes |
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but it's fun watching big Bud kick some ass. |
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Oliver Reed, Marcello Mastroianni, Lionel Stander |
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A man (Marcello Mastroianni) and his mistress (Carole Andre) are off for a weekend of sex |
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when they end up being kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers (Oliver Reed is their leader). They |
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soon become a media sensation as the police and reporters track their every move (shades of |
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O.J.!). See OLiver Reed laugh his ass off while watching a Franco and Ciccio movie (now that's |
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acting!!). As the police close in, they end up at an old coot's (Lionel Stander) run down shack |
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threatening to kill everybody. |
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Claudia Cardinale, Nancy Brilli, Raymond Pellegrin, Donald Pleasance |
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In Italian with English subtitles. Jeez, probably the bloodiest crime film I have ever seen!! |
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Claudia Cardinale, Nancy Brilli, Raymond Pellegrin and Donald Pleasence star in this epic tale |
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of crime in a big Italian city. Pasquale Squitierri directs this 4hour!! film |
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