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November 1974 (USA)
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The real story behind Lucky Luciano, the high priest of crime. more
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Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss...
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Gian Maria Volonté | ... | Charles 'Lucky' Luciano | |
| Vincent Gardenia | ... | Colonel Charles Poletti | |
| Silverio Blasi | ... | Italian Captain | |
| Charles Cioffi | ... | Vito Genovese | |
| Larry Gates | ... | Judge Herlands | |
| Magda Konopka | ... | Contessa | |
| Dino Curcio | ... | Don Ciccio | |
| Jacques Monod | |||
| Karin Petersen | ... | Igea Lissoni | |
| Edmond O'Brien | ... | Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger (as Edmund O'Brien) | |
| Charles Siragusa | ... | Himself | |
| Rod Steiger | ... | Gene Giannini | |
| Pier Maria Pasinetti | (as P.M. Pasinetti) | ||
| Luigi Infantino | |||
| Carlo Mazzarella | ... | Radio Journalist |
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A proposito Lucky Luciano (Italy)
Lucky Luciano (France)
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105 min
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Iceland:16 |
Australia:R |
Norway:16 |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 (re-rating) (1987) |
UK:X (original rating) |
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Referenced in A Sicilian Odyssey (2009)
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This movie is boring. Plain boring, nothing else. And I've a great tolerance of movies that most people find boring.
I still wonder what I just watched. Is it a documentary? Most gangster films are pretty slow, but this one is more than that. All action happens in 15 minutes, then...nothing. It's like there was no editor, or that the material was shot for some kind of documentary.
Gian Maria Volontè plays his role very good. Rod Steiger is nice, but doesn't get enough time to be as great as he usually is. The rest of the cast is OK, not a problem here. Gangsters look like gangsters, cops look like cops and the dames are plenty.
For some seven years now I have been collecting gangster films, read books about the subject and even collected news articles about the mafia and such. Most of what I saw in this film is not new for me. Luciano was famous and is nothing short of legend these days. When he moved out of the US, he kind of got into the darkness. When this film dragged on, I saw some potential stories come by, but all just passed and went on. So nothing happened until the end where that thing happened that everyone that ever read a book about the mafia knows that happened.
The soundtrack doesn't help. Piero Piccioni can't even live up to his usual 'clone morricone' music and seems only to have written about 7 minutes of music.
The DVD I got was a UK version without any subtitle. I can watch English spoken films without much trouble, but half of this is in Italian, so beware! At first I feared this would have been a action movie disguised as a gangster film, but even that wasn't true. It is slow and all that. Of course, I never thought I was going to watch a true classic, but I almost felt asleep. Still, I cannot give it less than a 4. Gian Maria Volontè and Rod Steiger together in a film, and the sets were good enough. The production itself felt okay. So maybe they should have fired the writer and maybe the editor.
It could have been so much more!