La revanche du Sicilien

Original title: Johnny Cool

1963
16
1h 43m

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

1.2K

YOUR RATING

Elizabeth Montgomery and Henry Silva in La revanche du Sicilien (1963)

Play trailer2:25

1 Video

99+ Photos

Action Crime Drama Thriller

Exiled American gangster Colini sends his protégé-killer Giordano to the USA to eliminate Colini's mob enemies.Exiled American gangster Colini sends his protégé-killer Giordano to the USA to eliminate Colini's mob enemies.Exiled American gangster Colini sends his protégé-killer Giordano to the USA to eliminate Colini's mob enemies.

Director
- William Asher
Writers
- Joseph Landon
- John McPartland
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

1.2K

YOUR RATING

Director
- William Asher
Writers
- Joseph Landon
- John McPartland
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Videos1

Trailer 2:25

Johnny Cool

Photos117

+ 111

User reviews32

6.41.2K

Featured reviews

Hoohawnaynay

Fast paced Gangster film with Cameos Galore!

This is a really cool gangster film featuring a much under-rated Henry Silva (Why Hollywood didn't use him more is beyond me!) playing an Italian mobster. The beggining of this film is a little awkward & slow but give it 15 minutes and it picks up quickly. Enter Elizabeth Montgomery as a bored socialite who wants some some excitement in her life and boy does she get it. Liz even gets slapped around by two guys which gets her turned on because when Henry comes back and finds her she belts out the line "I need you RIGHT NOW!" WOW! Kind of risque for the era. Good locations throughout, including many shots of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles & Las Vegas in the early 60's. Many, many cameos by Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, Jim Backus, Mort Sahl. William Asher proved he could direct drama as well as comedy (His forte'). This has no Hollywood ending either. It should be on DVD.

dougdoepke

Muddled

Johnny Muddled might be a more apt title. Too bad the script and direction fail to intensify the premise's rich potential. In fact, there's a ton of potential suspense in the idea of a hit-man taking out some big time gangsters, one-by-one. Unfortunately the narrative muddles the idea without crucially developing Johnny Cool's planning or lead up to the killings. Instead, events merely happen haphazardly, and at an audience distance. At the same time, director Asher fails to draw us in, passively filming the happenings instead. In my little book, the movie's best part are the legion of location shots of NYC, LA, and Las Vegas that lend an involving eye. In that limited sense, the movie's well produced. Also, actress Montgomery lends some much needed spark to the performances even as her role flounders in illogic. And though he has an exotic look about him, actor Silva more or less walks through his role. Maybe someone thought disengagement would be the essence of cool, but instead it adds to the emotional distance. All in all, I'm with the reviewer who thinks the script had to cobble additional players from Lawford's (producer) Las Vegas crowd into the clumsy end result. But whatever the reason, it's no wonder the flick has faded into rank obscurity; and that's despite the peripheral presence of so many familiar names and faces ( Backus, Lawrence, Cook, et al.) from yesteryear. I hope they at least picked up a good payday.

9MarieGabrielle

Johnny Cool....

Pure 1963 gangster drama. Not sure if this is on DVD yet, but it should be.

Elizabeth Montgomery as a brunette, looks amazing. She is a bored socialite who wants excitement, and hooks up with Henry Silva.

Some of the scenes are classic. The Beverly Hills Hotel, Las Vegas, a NYC skyscraper. Telly Savalas also has a cameo, and Sammy Davis Jr. Also, John McGiver ("The Manchurian Candidate") as an angry casino boss.

There is also something aesthetic and wild about seeing the streets of Los Angeles and NY in black and white, in the 60's. It just seems so surreal. Don't miss this film, they often show it on TCM channel. 9/10

artzau

Gangsters

This is classic Henry Silva when he was young and a potentially hot hollywood item running with the 'Rat Pack' and a pre-Bewitched Elizabeth Montgomery. The cultural aspects of the Mafia are touched on before Mario Puzo's novel, which came a few years later. Some cameo support performances from Jim "Mr. Magoo" Backus and Sammy Davis, Jr. make an interesting and dark gangster story. The ending is blunt and may leave you feeling as if you were wandering in the wasteland only to find the key to the exit doesn't work. Check it out.

6Leofwine_draca

A tough one

A fun little gangster movie from 1963 that feels very much like a 'rat pack' picture. Henry Silva stars in an early career badass role, playing an gangster seemingly assassinated in Italy, who turns up in America to bump off some mob foes. A good toughness in the 'killer' plot here alongside an exemplary supporting cast that includes such notables as Elisha Cook, Jr., Sammy Davis, Jr. And Telly Savalas.

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
An article in the 21 October 1962 edition of the Los Angeles Times called Elizabeth Montgomery "the most bruised actress in pictures". During this production she had a car door slammed on her hand and suffered contusions jumping from a pier onto a boat, among other injuries. Plus, she had to endure the filming of a brutal rape scene which ended up on the cutting room floor.

Goofs
In the second half of the film, after Darien abandons her car in front of the beauty parlor, the police show up. The police later describe it as being a "1961 Ford". It is in fact a 1962 Ford (Galaxie 500 Sunliner).

Quotes
Johnny Colini: While you are here, you'll go through a process of polishing designed to make you "civilised". A little, not too much. On the surface, not inside. When I decide you're ready, you'll do a job for me, a job no other man could do. I want you to go to those who betrayed me, take back what they stole and make them dead. Do that and what is mine, is yours. You will be my son.
Johnny Cool: I am no son of Colini. You disgraced us in America.
Johnny Colini: Hmm, there is a streak of decency in you. You've gotta get rid of that streak.
Johnny Cool: They teach you to murder in Chicago and then they send you back to us.
Johnny Colini: And you, who taught you to murder?
Johnny Cool: I am no criminal. I never murder for money. All I have done, I have done for my people.
Johnny Colini: Yes, I'm a criminal. I know it. I am not kind, I know that. I'm not even a generous man. I go to church and lie to God. What's mine is mine because I'm selfish, mean and cruel. There is no one I could point to and say, "this is the reason why Colini is a murderer" but you, you have the people. Poor people. Mr Giordano, you're a liar, yourself. The people, the poor people, aren't you weary of taking bows? You ate well, you've stolen everything you wanted and when you're belly was full, you gave the rest away. I know you, my young friend.
Johnny Cool: I am no friend of yours.
Johnny Colini: You will be, you have no other choice. I put you in the streets, you'll be dead within the hour. Or you'll do the job I picked for you and you'll become rich. More money and wealth than a peasant could dream.
Johnny Cool: Ten million lire.
Johnny Colini: You will not understand a number that big. But you'll learn. Take you a long time. But I will teach you. I'll teach you America: the clothes; how to walk; how to act; who has the money, where it comes from; which are the important names and where their power lies. And when I've finished, you'll be one of three men in the world who knows it all. This I teach you. But in the end, what will count is what is here
[he pokes him in the chest]
Johnny Colini: .
Johnny Colini: In your hills you have been a glorious success, we'll now see what you do with a mountain, America. You prove you can be the son of Colini and in a few years when I have gone, you will inherit my kingdom.