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Milano Rovente
Gangwar in Milan
Burning City
Italy 1973
produced by
Giuseppe Tortorella (executive) for Telemondial
directed by Umberto Lenzi
starring Antonio Sabato, Philippe Leroy, Antonio Casagrance, Carla Romanelli, Alessandro Sperli, Marisa Mell, Franco Fantasia, Tano Cimarosa, Piero Corbetta, Vittorio Pinelli, Domenico Raccosta, Claudio Sforzini, Carla Mancini, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Vittorio Sancisi, Vittorio Joderi, Naiba Pedersoli, Lucio Como, Riccardo De Stefanis, Ottavio Fanfani, Idris Josuf, Marta Fabiani, Elsa Boni, Giancarlo Busi, Ugo Bologna, Filippo La Neve, Elena Pantano, Gabriella Lepori
story by Ombretta Lanza, screenplay by Franco Enna, Umberto Lenzi, music by Carlo Rustichelli
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Toto (Antonio Sabato), a Sicilian by birth, runs a prostitution racket
in Milan, and he's quite good at it too. But then his top prostitute is
found murdered, and he makes the acquaintance of French drug kingpin Roger
Daverty (Philippe Leroy), who has had killed the prostitute as a warning
and who wants to use Toto's girls for his drugdealing operations,
something Toto is very much against since he still has a code of honour -
and that despite the fact that Daverty even plans to pay him for his
services.
So Toto and Daverty soon start a gangwar, during which Daverty at one
point has Toto's girls kidnapped by his men in the disguise of cops while
Toto at another point catches Daverty in bed with a prostitute, and so on
and so forth. Eventually, Toto gets help from Chicago, Billy Barone
(Alessandro Sperli), like him a Sicilian (at least at heart), and the
godfather of Toto's right hand man Lino (Antonio Casagrande), who gives
him a few pointers how to win a gangwar - but on the other hand, he also
tries to persuade Toto to join in the drugtrade which he considers the
future.
However, Daverty is not one to gie up, quite the contrary, he tries to
break Toto but good with a one-two-punch: First he sees to it that Toto's
girlfriend Jasmina (Marisa Mell) - actually a girl in Daverty's employ -
leaves him and steals quite a sum of money from him, secondly he abducts
his right-hand-man Lino and tortures and castrates him before letting him
escape. Toto though is far from being broken, because now it has become
personal and now he is really out for revenge ... but when he finally
makes it to Daverty's place, he has to realize that Billy Barone was
quicker, and he has not only killed Daverty, he has also taken over Toto's
operation and his men - including Lino. In shock, Toto shoots Lino before
being machine-gunned to death by his former own men.
Milano Rovente is a straight-forward, compact and violent Mafia
thriller that seems to pull no punches, and if you are in for that kind of
entertainment and don't mind the occasional pulp cliché, this one's
probably for you. However, the film is far from perfect, the plot is at
times almost ridiculously convoluted and not always very convincing, at
other times it's a bit too blunt to the point of being almost silly,
Antonio Sabato is a bit too pale in this film to really carry the story.
Still, if you like action-filled Italian action thrillers from the
pulpy end of the genre, you are bound to like this one.
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