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Guns of the Big Shots
Cry of a Prostitute / Die Rache des Paten / Cry of the Prostitute

Italy 1973
produced by
Mauro Righi for Alexandra Internazionale Cinematografica
directed by Andrea Bianchi
starring Henry Silva, Barbara Bouchet, Fausto Tozzi, Vittorio Sanipoli, Mario Landi, Mauro Righi, Dada Gallotti, Patrizia Gori, Pier Maria Rossi, Alfredo Pea, Pietro Torrisi, Armando Bottin, Giancarlo Del Duca, Carla Mancini, Orazio Stracuzzi, Enrico Marciani, Gennarino Pappagalli, Giuseppe Namio, Romano Milani, Enrico Miotti, BRuno Salvi, Remo Pizzaroni, Fortunato Arena, Bruno Arié, Roberto Messina, Sergio Testori, Omero Capanna
story by Sergio Simonetti, screenplay by Piero Gegnoli, music by Sante Maria Romitelli

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Sicily: Apparently, Don Ricuzzo Cantimo (Fausto Tozzi) is smuggling heroin inside the bodies of dead children - and the mafia doesn't like that, since it's bad for the image, so Don Cascemi (Vittorio Sanipoli) sends hitman Tony Anyamo (Henry Silva) to the village Don Ricuzzo resides in to set a few wrongs right.

Tony soon hooks up with Don Ricuzzo's rival mafia boss Don Turi (Mario Landi) to get some backup, then though he pretends to hook up with Don Ricuzzo as well - whose ex-prostitute wife (Barbara Bouchet) he repeatedly rapes until she falls in love with him - and incites a war between the two families ... a war that unfortunately Don Ricuzzo wins, and ultimately, he sees through Tony's two-timing, so he has him beaten to a pulp and thrown off a cliff - which Tony survives without as much as a scratch apparently, and ultimately he returns to Don Ricuzzo's place. Not surprisingly, Don Ricuzzo wants to kill him again, but this time, Tony has brought backup, and the Don's entire family and friends are shot dead ...

Anyways, there's one thing that still bothers Tony, Don Ricuzzo was nothing but a rural mobster, who hardly had the organisation to smugle heroin in dead children's bodies - Don Cascemi, his own employer, on the other hand has. And Don Cascemi has also shot his parents ... so at the next opportunity, he shoots Don Cascemi, to have his personal vendetta, and to keep the mafia's image clean.

In a subplot, Patrizia Gori and Pier Maria Rossi are caught up in a Romeo and Juliet-style lovestory.

Run-of-the-mill mafia flick from the cheap and sleazy end of the genre, that interestingly enough takes more than a few hints from Sergio Leone's spaghetti Westerns - especially A Fistful of Dollars (the lead character playing both sides) and Once Upon a Time in the West (the lead character whistling a tune before killing people) - however, Andrea Bianchi is by no means a second Sergio Leone, and thus he's unable to develop Leone's concepts to full effect. In what Bianchi does succeed though is depicting the very rural atmosphere of the films locations, which is at least an interesting subtext to the main action.

In all, my verdict probably makes this film worse than it actually is - it's pretty much your average mafia/action flick from the 1970's, nothing to write home about perhaps, but slightly entertaining nevertheless.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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