Milano calibro 9

Milano Calibro 9/Milan Calibre 9(1972) contains a fast paced tightly edited prologue that is done with brilliance. The opening five minutes are both brutal and sadistic. Rocco played by Mario Adorf is introduced in the prologue as a psychotic mafia hood. The prologue is an example of setting up mood and story for the film.

Mario Adorf gives a performance that brings to mind Joe Pesce in Goodfellas(1990) and Casino(1995), Takeshi Kitano in Boiling Point(1990), and Lee Marvin in The Big Heat(1953). He is excellent as the mafia hood with a sadistic streak. Mario Adorf plays his character with unbelievable and vicious conviction. His performance is one of the best acting jobs from the film.

This movie along with La Mala Ordina/Hired to Kill(1973) and Il Boss/The Boss(1973) makes Fernando Di Leo the Italian eqivulent of Jean Pierre Melville. Fernando Di Leo is influenced by Melville in many aspects. Milan Calibre 9(1972) reminds me of Le Doulos(1961) with their use of anti heroes. One of many films that Jean Pierre Melville made an impression on.

Has a double plot twist which is utilized in cleaver and unpredictable fashion. I was surprised by the first plot revealing twist. I was convincing stunned by the second plot revealing twist which was much more unexpected. The double plot twist is one characteristic that makes the film special.

Fernando Di Leo stands out in the gangster craze of Italian cinema in the same way that Sergio Leone stood out as a master of Italian Westerns, Dario Argento as a master of Giallos, and Lucio Fulci as a master of Italian Zombie pics. He brings out a direction full of passion and spunk. The director films the violent scenes with panache and piazzazz. An underrated filmmaker in Italian cinema.

Soundtrack of Milan Calibre Nine is awesome and cool. Luis Enriquez Bacalov is excellent at performing music for Italian Crime and Western motion pictures. The Police are depicted in a cynical and unsympathetic light. The only Police officer who comes out in a sympathetic tone is Fonzino who's only in the movie for a few minutes.

The major action sequence in Milan Calibre 9(1972) prefigures John Woo. What's so twisted about the end of the motion picture is its Rocco whose the most trust worthy person in the entire story. Gastone Moschin gives a gripping performance as a man who cannot escape his tragic fate. Some wonderful performances are handed out by Barbara Bouchet, Philippe Leroy, and Lionel Stander.

The scene where Nelly Bordon played by Barbara Bouchet is doing an erotic dance is filmed with multiple camera angles. An sensual introduction to the character of Barbara Bouchet. The editing in this one scene is good and imaginative. Barbara Bouchet is definitely one of the beautiful women from the 1970s when one sees Milan Calibre 9(1972).

An example of the growing popularity of the gangster movie in Italy. Milan Calibre 9(1972) is in my opinion belongs among the top ten of Italian gangster pictures. The Godfather(1972) may have influenced the gangster film in Italy during the 1970s, but Milano Calibro 9(1972) takes on a life of its own. I've was very impressed by Milano Calibro 9(1972) that I've taken an interest in other films from this genre and decade in Italian cinema.

Provided many influences and inspirations for filmography of Quentin Tarantino. His portrayal of tough guys in his films takes a page out of Milan Calibre 9 as well as other mafia features by Fernando Di Leo. The sadistic violence and unpredictable plot twists can be seen in Resevoir Dogs(1992) and Pulp Fiction(1994). No one filmmaker has influenced Tarantino more frequently besides Jean Pierre Melville than Fernando Di Leo.

This concerns an upright ex-inmate called Hugo Razza : Gastone Moschin, just out of prison being coerced to resume his old style of life when is accused for hiding a cache about 30. 000 dollars. As he meets an old employer : the psycho Mario Adorf giving overacting, he works for an American drug syndicate boss : Lionel Stander, both of whom think Ugo has hidden a stash of money and wish to retrieve at whatever cost. Furthermore, two stubborn cops : Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli, go after him.

Violent poliziesco with thrills, high body-count, grisly killings, twists and turns. Interpretations are pretty good, Gastone Moschin is very well as a sober, slow-talking ex-con who is forced to resume his previous criminal life when his former colleagues believe he knows the wherebout of a stolen cache that should have gone to an American gangster . Support cast is frankly excellent as Mario Adorf playing a psychopatic mobster with penchant for sick violence and enjoying torturing who will stop at nothing to get his purports, the always gorgeous Barbara Bouchet as a strip-tease dancer, Frank Wolff as an obstinate commissioner, Luigi Pistilli as his helper who has a visceral hate for wealthy people , Ivo Garrani as a blind, honorable mobster called Don Vicenzo , Mario Novelli or Anthony Freeman as a henchman named Pasquale and Lionel Stander as revengeful drug ringleader called The American or Mikado.

It contains a moving and thrilling musical score by prestigious Luis Enrique Bacalov, who got an Academy Award for The postman and Pablo Neruda. And atmospheric and evocative cinematography by Franco Villa. The picture was well written and directed by Fernando Di Leo. He was an expert writer and filmmaker. Firstly, he wrote notorious Spaghetti Westerns as Fistful of dollars, For a fistful of dollars more, Ringo , The return of Ringo, Johnny Yuma, 7 guns for the McGregor, 7 women for the McGregor, Sugar Colt, Johnny Yuma, Joe implacable, The ruthless four, Wanted. Turning in direction he made sex comedies as Loaded guns, Italian sex, La seduczione and Victims of lust. Outstanding in Poliziesco subgenre, often starred by Henry Silva, Richard Conte, Mario Adorf, Luc Merenda, including as follows : I boss, The American connection, La mala ordina, Shoot first die later, Running guns, Madness, The boys who slaughter, Razza violenta, Killers vs Killers, among others. Rating 7/10. Better than average Italian cop movie. Essential and indispensable watching for this sub-genre buffs.

Like The Italian Connection, this Fernando Di Leo film features Mario Adorf. It also features Barbara Bouchet (Gangs of New York), who left the States in the 70s to do Italian films. She jumped from Police films, to giallo, to erotica. Always a pleasure to watch.

This is a typical double cross film with a missing $300,000. Who took the money? Who will end up with the money? Who will double cross whom? The police just sit back and let the mafia, led by the Americano (Lionel Stander) tear each other apart.

Lots of fights, a big shootout, and some fine performances by Adorf, and Gastone Moschin

An ex-con attempts to go straight but cannot escape the influence of his old crime bosses. Underpinning everything is the matter of a missing $300,000 that he is under suspicion of stealing. The mob and the police want him to reveal all, while he protests his innocence.

Milan Calibre 9 is one of crime specialist director Fernando Di Leo's most famous movies. He was probably the best director in the Italian poliziotteschi and is responsible for several other classics of that sub-genre, such as The Boss and The Italian Connection. Like those, this one is also a fast paced, tough and violent flick with some excellently staged action scenes. The big shoot-out at the outdoor garden party stands out as an example of the latter. But mainly the story is driven more by interesting characters and a fairly complex plot with several twists and turns.

The Milan setting itself is used well, with a good sense of place. Unlike the other Italian thriller genre of the 70's, the giallo, the poliziotteschi were virtually all set in Italy itself. Many, like this one, featured the city in question in their title. They were more realistic than their more stylised gialli counterparts and I guess they connected with their audience in a slightly different way in that they provided thrills along with observations about contemporary crime concerns. Milan Calibre 9 like other Di Leo crime films has some such social commentary. The corruption in the justice system and the degradation of the mafia are subjects that are touched upon.

It benefits from a very strong cast. Mario Adorf is in his element as the sadistic gangster Rocco, he owns every scene he is in. Barbara Bouchet is as exquisite as always, she plays a night-club dancer who is introduced to us in a mouth-wateringly erotic dance routine. Lionel Standler is very convincing in the role of the sinister crime boss The Americano; while the two cops are played by reliable Italian genre film regulars Luigi Pistilli and Frank Wolff.

All in all, this is a quality action-thriller that remains relatively obscure. It's a very good example of what the Italian crime movie was all about.

In a Milan's fog and a grey atmosphere a robbery will be done, 300.000 dollars, a lone man was arrested and had imprisoned for four years, after released their former mates take him for an unfriendly account settling, even he denies that stolen the money they have suspect he wasn't telling the truth, this fabulous italian gangster picture gained worldwide fame, also his director too, who will leaves many discreet clues to trying to conceal the eager audience, Gastone Mochin plays the cold suspect Ugo Piazza, a kind of quiet crook who wants proves by any means his innocence, the casting is terrific having an older Lionel Stander as the boss known as American, a often louder Mario Adorf, a bad temper thief Phiippe Leroy and finally the beauty Barbara Bouchet who expose her skills in a sexy dance a provocative body language on the nightcub, intense picture that has a great music score!!!

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First watch: 2019 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.5