Since being introduced to the genre from seeing him in Almost Human (1974-also reviewed) I always keep a eye out for Italian Crime flicks starring Tomas Milian. Thrilled to find one starring Milian in the box set I was watching,I got set to join the squad.
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The lone title in the genre where he supplied his own voice for the Italian dubbing, (sadly not included in the Big Gun DVD box set I watched from) Tomas Milian gives a wickedly cool performance as Ravelli. Spending most of the movie in dark shades with a cigar in his mouth, Milian brings a ruggedness to cop Ravelli's growing desire to bend the rules and get revenge for the murder of his wife, which Milian keeps burning in the back of Ravelli's mind during flashbacks to her death, which Milian brilliantly brings slowly to the front,in order to end on a melancholy note.
Caught in the cross-fire, Ray Lovelock gives a very good turn as Micheli, who Lovelock has as wanting to remain loyal to his boss, but getting a sinking feeling of one too many lines being crossed. Haunting Ravelli to the killing of his wife, the screenplay by co-writer/(with Dardano Sacchetti/ Gianfranco Barberi and Adriano Bolzoni) director Stelvio Massi thrillingly take Ravelli's thirst for revenge as a wraparound to gang leader Marsigliese hostage taking to build his retirement fund, a plan which gets grated by Ravelli.
Backed by a blissfully funky score from Stelvio Cipriani, director Stelvio Massi & cinematographer Sergio Rubini closely work with editor Mauro Bonanni in building a blazing Italian Crime atmosphere of razor sharp smah-cut edits cracking to lightning fast zoom-ins and zoom-outs on Marsigliese and Ravelli's latest take down. Whilst serving up welcomed eyefuls of skin and blast of red across the screen, Massi flexes the action hits with lingering, refined wide-shots gliding across the skyline to Ravelli finding that there is no emergency squad to save him from his grief.
View on the film:
The lone title in the genre where he supplied his own voice for the Italian dubbing, (sadly not included in the Big Gun DVD box set I watched from) Tomas Milian gives a wickedly cool performance as Ravelli. Spending most of the movie in dark shades with a cigar in his mouth, Milian brings a ruggedness to cop Ravelli's growing desire to bend the rules and get revenge for the murder of his wife, which Milian keeps burning in the back of Ravelli's mind during flashbacks to her death, which Milian brilliantly brings slowly to the front,in order to end on a melancholy note.
Caught in the cross-fire, Ray Lovelock gives a very good turn as Micheli, who Lovelock has as wanting to remain loyal to his boss, but getting a sinking feeling of one too many lines being crossed. Haunting Ravelli to the killing of his wife, the screenplay by co-writer/(with Dardano Sacchetti/ Gianfranco Barberi and Adriano Bolzoni) director Stelvio Massi thrillingly take Ravelli's thirst for revenge as a wraparound to gang leader Marsigliese hostage taking to build his retirement fund, a plan which gets grated by Ravelli.
Backed by a blissfully funky score from Stelvio Cipriani, director Stelvio Massi & cinematographer Sergio Rubini closely work with editor Mauro Bonanni in building a blazing Italian Crime atmosphere of razor sharp smah-cut edits cracking to lightning fast zoom-ins and zoom-outs on Marsigliese and Ravelli's latest take down. Whilst serving up welcomed eyefuls of skin and blast of red across the screen, Massi flexes the action hits with lingering, refined wide-shots gliding across the skyline to Ravelli finding that there is no emergency squad to save him from his grief.