Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection - 4-Disc Box Set ( Milano calibro 9 / La mala ordina / Il boss / I padroni della città ) ( Caliber 9 / The Italian Connection / The Boss / Rulers of the City )

Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection - 4-Disc Box Set (Blu-Ray) (*)

$73.99

Original Title: Milano calibro 9 / La mala ordina / Il boss / I padroni della città
Alternate Title: Caliber 9 / The Italian Connection / The Boss / Rulers of the City
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
410 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1972 - 1976 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Fernando Di Leo

Written By:
Giorgio Scerbanenco
Fernando Di Leo
Peter McCurtin
Peter Berling

Actors:
Gastone Moschin ..... Ugo Piazza
Barbara Bouchet ..... Nelly Bordon
Mario Adorf ..... Rocco Musco
Frank Wolff ..... Police Commissioner
Luigi Pistilli ..... Mercuri
Ivo Garrani ..... Don Vincenzo
Philippe Leroy ..... Chino
Lionel Stander ..... Americano
Mario Novelli ..... Pasquale Tallarico
Giuseppe Castellano ..... Nicola
Salvatore Arico ..... Luca
Fernando Cerulli ..... Portiere dell'albergo di Ugo Piazza
Giulio Baraghini ..... Brigadiere
Franco Beltramme ..... The American's Henchman
Rossella Bergamonti ..... Street Woman
Bruno Bertocci ..... Corriere François Doremat
Empedocle Buzzanca ..... Uomo anziano che prende parte allo scambio iniziale
Fortunato Cecilia ..... Vincenzo Affatato
Ernesto Colli ..... Alfredo Bertolon
Alberto Fogliani ..... American Henchman
Ettore Geri ..... Barman
Imelde Marani ..... Donna bionda che prende parte allo scambio iniziale
Sergio Serafini ..... Police Officer
Alessandro Tedeschi ..... Corriere tedesco
Giorgio Trestini ..... Franceschino
Mira Vidotto ..... Street Woman
Mario Adorf ..... Luca Canali
Henry Silva ..... Dave Catania
Woody Strode ..... Frank Webster
Adolfo Celi ..... Don Vito Tressoldi
Luciana Paluzzi ..... Eva Lalli
Franco Fabrizi ..... Enrico Moroni
Femi Benussi ..... Nana
Gianni Macchia ..... Nicolo
Peter Berling ..... Damiano
Francesca Romana Coluzzi ..... Trini
Cyril Cusack ..... Corso
Sylva Koscina ..... Lucia Canali
Jessica Dublin ..... Miss Kenneth
Omero Capanna ..... Vito's Goon
Giuseppe Castellano ..... Garagaz
Henry Silva ..... Nick Lanzetta
Richard Conte ..... Don Corrasco
Gianni Garko ..... Commissario Torri
Antonia Santilli ..... Rina D'Aniello
Corrado Gaipa ..... Avvocato Rizzo
Marino Masé ..... Pignataro
Howard Ross ..... Melende
Claudio Nicastro ..... Don Giuseppe D'Aniello
Gianni Musy ..... Carlo Attardi
Mario Pisu ..... Onorevole Gabrielli
Vittorio Caprioli ..... Il questore
Pier Paolo Capponi ..... Cocchi
Andrea Aureli ..... Don Antonino Attardi
Pietro Ceccarelli ..... Maione
Giulio Baraghini ..... Don Corrasco Man
Jack Palance ..... 'Scarface' Manzari
Al Cliver ..... Rick
Harry Baer ..... Tony
Gisela Hahn ..... Clara
Enzo Pulcrano ..... Peppi
Roberto Reale ..... Luca
Edmund Purdom ..... Luigi Cherico
Vittorio Caprioli ..... Vinchenzo Napoli
Rosario Borelli ..... Office Manager
Pietro Ceccarelli ..... Luigi's Bagman
Salvatore Billa ..... Luigi's Bagman
Peter Berling ..... Valentino
Raul Lovecchio ..... Scarface Goon
Giulio Baraghini ..... Scarface Goon
Enrico Palombini ..... Captain Beri (Actor)

Synopsis:

Caliber 9 (1972)
Small-time gangster Ugo Piazza (Gastone Moschin) gets released from prison. He tries to convince the police, the mafia, his psychotic ex-friend Rocco (Mario Adorf) and his girlfriend Nelly Bordon (Barbara Bouchet) that he wants to go straight, but everyone believes he has $300,000 of stolen money hidden somewhere.

The Italian Connection (1972)
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man. When the pimp's wife and daughter are murdered in the course of the 'manhunt', he swears revenge on everyone who had anything to do with it.

The Boss (1973)
Nick Lanzetta (Henry Silva) takes out several members of a rival crime family for his boss Don Corrasco (Richard Conte). The enemy clan attempts retribution by kidnapping an associate's daughter, who turns out to be a nymphomaniac. A violent power struggle within the Mafia ensures.

Rulers of the City (1976)
Two young friends initiate themselves into a gang to get close to big time crime boss Mr. Scarface (Palance) to get revenge for a childhood murder and destroy his mob.

Caliber 9 (1972)
An ex-con claims that he wants to go straight after serving his sentence, but finds it impossible to emerge from the shadow of his former crimes in the first chapter of director Fernando di Leo's influential crime saga. Ugo Piazza may be a free man, but in the eyes of the mafia, the police, and his sadistic former associate Rocco, he will always be a criminal. When everyone who knows Ugo becomes convinced that he has stashed away $300,000 from a previous crime, the race is on to find the missing money at all costs.

The Italian Connection (1972)
The second film in Fernando Di Leo's Milieu Trilogy focuses on Luca Carnali, a small-time mobster and pimp who has been set up by his gangland boss. When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, Carnali is framed for the theft. Carnali is pursued through Milan by a pair of merciless American hit men -- played by Henry Silva and Woody Strode, and referenced by Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction (1994) -- whom mistakenly believe that he has stolen a drugs shipment. Following the murder of his wife, the hunted becomes the hunter as Carnali takes his revenge on his boss, the hit men and anyone else who stands in his way.

The Boss (1973)
A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the fellows of Attardi's clan a part from Cocchi. He immediately understands that the author of the bomb attack is Daniello from Don Corrasco's clan. Cocchi is determined to revenge. His actions, including the Corrasco's daughter kidnap, in a Palermo in which also the police is corrupted, will soon destroy the old equilibrium giving the way to an escalation of violence that won't save anyone. If Cocchi will survive to the mafia war he will be the new boss for sure.

Rulers of the City (1976)
Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of beating up borrowers who fall behind in their payments. After meeting up with Napoli, another mob enforcer who's just been fired from his job, the two hatch a plan. Together, they will con mob boss Manzari out of a fortune, after which they can retire and live in luxury. Manzari, however, is not about to let them go so easily.

Fernando Di Leo was prolific filmmaker who explored the political extremism and mafia corruption in Italy during the 1970's. Master of garish, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters, Di Leo has perfected the genre with an uncanny accuracy. Di Leo's films demonstrate the degradation of the working classes and how the mafia corrupted them. Though he slipped out of public consciousness after his death in 2003, his works have been revived and shown at the Tate Modern in London and The Venice Film festival where Quentin Tarantino admitted that Di Leo truly inspired him to make gangster films. Contained in this box set is the Milieu Trilogy: Milano Calibro 9 (1972), The Italian Connection (La Mala Ordina, 1972), and The Boss (Il Boss, 1973). Contained exclusively in this box set is Rulers of the City (I Padroni della città, 1976).

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 08 January, 2014.

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