After Robert Dassa (Pierre Massimi) is viciously beaten and then thrown to his death from a rooftop car park his sister Helene (Francoise Fabian) takes over the running of his nightclub but is brutally assaulted by the same men, thugs seeking to use the club to push drugs on behalf of crimelord Tavernier (Francis Cosne). However Robert’s friend Dan Rover … Read the rest
Category: Italy
Killer Calibre 32 (Alfonso Brescia, Italy, 1967)
In the Old West an elegantly attired contract killer known as Mr Silver (Peter Lee Lawrence) is hired by the owners of local banks to find and eliminate the masked outlaws who’ve been robbing stagecoaches and who on their last raid ruthlessly murdered all the passengers.
Well-plotted and pacy Euro-Western featuring some rough and tumble stunt-work in which none of … Read the rest
The Heroin Busters (Enzo G. Castelleri, Italy, 1977)
A cop named Mike (David Hemmings) and an undercover agent named Fabio (Fabio Testi) work together to infiltrate a vicious heroin smuggling ring so they can identify and arrest the mastermind behind it. But when Fabio’s attempt to ingratiate himself with the gang’s boss (Joshua Sinclair) – by walking into police headquarters and stealing back some valuable heroin the gang … Read the rest
The Birth Of A Legend
53 years ago an American television actor accepted the starring role in a low budget Italian-German-Spanish co-production of a remake of a Japanese samurai movie, at a time when the very notion of Americans acting in European movies was regarded in Hollywood as the kiss of death for their careers. How wrong they all were. Joe Leydon has a good … Read the rest
Black Belly Of The Tarantula (Italy, 1971, Paolo Cavara)
Inspector Tellini (Giancarlo Giannnini) investigates a series of grisly murders in which women are paralysed by scorpion venom before being mutilated. As the bodies pile up the gruesome nature of the investigation proves hard to bear and Tellini relies on his wife Anna (Stefania Sandrelli) for support. The discovery of a blackmail plot involving the victims seems like a breakthrough … Read the rest
Execution Squad (Stefano Vanzina, Italy, 1972)
Commissioner Bertone (Enrico Maria Salerno), a good cop trying to uphold the law in the hunt for a pair of murderous young bank robbers finds his job challenged by a sceptical district attorney Riciutti (Mario Adorf) who won’t believe his claims that a well organised vigilante squad is executing anyone it disapproves of. Only a dogged news reporter named Sandra … Read the rest
A Man On His Knees (Damiano Damiani, Italy, 1980)
Nino (Giuliano Gemma) a former car thief gone straight and now a Palermo coffee stall owner finds himself marked for assassination by the Mafia after being suspected of involvement in the kidnapping of a prominent lawyer’s wife. With the help of his best friend, a pickpocket named Colicchia (Tano Cimarosa) and the reluctant assistance of Platamonte (Michele Placido) a greedy … Read the rest
Young, Violent, Dangerous (Romolo Guerrieri, Italy, 1976)
Three young men – Blondie (Stefano Patrizi), Luigi (Max Delys) and Joe (Benjamin Lev) – pull a petrol station robbery for kicks but events rapidly get out of control when the lads gun down the cops sent to arrest them. In quick succession the boys rob a bank then team up with friends to raid a supermarket. But the robbery … Read the rest
Le Serpent (Henri Verneuil, France/Italy, 1973)
A Russian Colonel named Vlassov (Yul Brynner) defects with a list of high ranking double agents working in the West he’s willing to turn over to CIA head Davies (Henry Fonda). As word of the traitors trickles back to the countries concerned the suspects begin turning up dead by suicide and it looks as though Vlassov’s been telling the truth. … Read the rest
Suburra (Stefano Sollima, Italy, 2015)
A Mafia dealmaker (Claudio Amendola) has plans to turn the summer resort of Ostia into an Italian Las Vegas. But when a bent politician (Pierfrancesco Favino) crucial to the deal is blackmailed the politician seeks help from an ambitious criminal (Alessandro Borghi) and his junkie girlfriend (Greta Scarano) who between them run all illegal activity in Ostia. Before long the … Read the rest
