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Husband-and-wife team Yves Montand and Simone Signoret star in director Alain Corneau’s peculiarly titled 1976 French / West German crime thriller epic Police Python 357 about intrigue and romance in the corridors of the French […]
Gian Maria Volontè stars brilliantly as Sicilian-American Mafia boss gangster Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano, in Francesco Rosi’s superb 1973 Technicolor biopic Lucky Luciano. The detailed screenplay covers the mobster’s life from 1946, when the Americans gave […]
Rod Steiger goes to Italy like so many other American actors in search of work and finds a prestige film by top director Francesco Rosi for the award-winning 1963 political and social drama film Hands […]
Every 24 hours an American family will be killed!… and only The Human Factor (1975) can stop it… Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1975 UK/ Italy co-production The Human Factor is an undistinguished and nasty-toned revenge action […]
The tough 1969 Italian action crime gangster thriller film Machine Gun McCain [Gli Intoccabili] stars John Cassavetes as the rough and ready ex-con criminal Hank McCain, out to avenge himself on Mafia hoods by robbing […]
The enjoyable 1970 French psychological thriller film The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun stars Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed, Stéphane Audran and John McEnery. A body turns up in the trunk of […]
Director Sergio Corbucci’s 1976 Italian comedy crime thriller High Rollers [Bluff storia di truffe e di imbroglioni] stars Anthony Quinn as con artist Philip Bang, who gets out of prison with young trickster Felice ‘Félix’ […]