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‘By mistake they killed his wife and child – THAT was a hell of a mistake!’ Yes, that’s the spoiler alert advertising, but the mistake is when the Milan-based mafia hitman Tony Arzenta tells his bosses […]
Director Carlo Lizzani’s 1974 crime thriller film Crazy Joe is an effective, strongly cast Italian gangster movie about real-life hot-tempered New York mafia boss ‘Crazy Joe’ Gallo, played by Peter Boyle. Crazy Joe is a […]
Director Robert Hartford-Davis’s 1972 crime action thriller Black Gunn is a rather poor, and dismayingly weakly made blaxploitation movie, with Jim Brown as Gunn, a rich nightclub owner on the trail of mafia capo and […]
Director Richard Thorpe’s 1950 American film noir Black Hand stars Gene Kelly, J Carrol Naish and Teresa Celli. A young New York Italian guy, Johnny Columbo (Kelly), working with police detective Louis Lorelli (Naish), sets out to […]
Director Frank Perry’s 1982 drama Monsignor is based on a novel by Jack-Alain Léger and stars Christopher Reeve as Roman Catholic priest Flaherty, the army chaplain who rises through the ranks of the Vatican, during […]
Director Roberto Benigni’s popular 1991 Italian comedy Johnny Stecchino stars Roberto Benigni in dual roles and is one of his many collaborations with co-star and wife, Nicoletta Braschi. It was then the highest grossing film […]
Director Herbert Ross’s 1990 droll comedy My Blue Heaven stars Steve Martin as bon viveur Mafia informant ‘Vinnie’ Antonelli, who is transplanted to a sleepy California town in the witness protection programme under the protection […]