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7.2/10   311 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Fernando Di Leo (screenplay)
Peter McCurtin (novel)
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Release Date:
31 January 1973 (Italy) more
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Plot:
A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the fellows of Attardi's clan a part from Cocchi. He... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
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
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Murder Inferno (UK)
The Boss (Europe: English title)
Wipeout! (USA)
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Runtime:
USA:100 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Final part of Fernando Di Leo's "Milieu Trilogy" also including Milano calibro 9 (1972) and La mala ordina (1972). more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Il solitario (2008) more

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17 out of 18 people found the following comment useful.
the best and most realistic mafia movie ever, 18 January 2000
10/10
Author: Giovanni rossi (lidia.miroglio@alice.it) from torino, Italy

This movie shows it like it is. In this movie Ferdinando di Leo was brave enough to use real unofficial incidents that were happening at the time,he even used some real names, or changed some by changing only a letter from the name, After this movie came, Ferdinando became paraniod that someone was going to "take care of him" for the content of this movie but nothing happend. This movie is great because, Di Leo doesn't make out the characters to be charismatic role models, but the cold blood assassins they really are. I give this movie 2 thumbs up. Plus and the end of the movie it sais to be continued, but not because theirs going to be a sequel, but becuase he just did a piece of mafia history, and the mafia continues, no good endings or bad endings, just a piece of history.

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