Contraband (1980)
"Luca il contrabbandiere" (original title)

Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler. Full of violence, including a women's face being burned off with a blow torch and a... See full summary »

Director:

Lucio Fulci

Writers:

Gianni De Chiara (screenplay), Gianni De Chiara (story),

Stars:

Fabio Testi, Ivana Monti, Guido Alberti

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Fabio Testi	...	Luca Di Angelo
Ivana Monti	...	Adele Di Angelo
Guido Alberti	...	Don Morrone
Enrico Maisto	...	Micky Di Angelo
Daniele Dublino	...	Assistant Prosecutor
Giordano Falzoni	...	Charlie, the doctor
Giulio Farnese	...	Alfredo
Fabrizio Jovine	...	Chief of Police
Ofelia Meyer	...	Ingrid
Ferdinando Murolo	...	Scherino
Tommaso Palladino	...	Capece
Venantino Venantini	...	Captain Tarantino
Ajita Wilson	...	Luisa, "Little Nepolitan"
Marcel Bozzuffi	...	François Jacois, the Marsigliese
Saverio Marconi	...	Luigi Perlante

Storyline

Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler. Full of violence, including a women's face being burned off with a blow torch and a graphic rape scene.

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Plot Keywords:

smuggler | italy | blow torch | sadist | cigarette smuggler | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

8 August 1980 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Contraband

Filming Locations:

Naples, Campania, Italy

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min 88 min (cut)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

When Ingrid is first seen she clearly has red nail varnish, but when she reaches into her underwear for the drug lipstick, she has clear nail varnish.

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Connections

Referenced in Alenbi Romance (2005)

User Reviews

Awesome gory and violent crime thriller from the Italian master of gore

When it comes to gore, Lucio Fulci knows how to deliver, even if this is not a horror movie. There are many scenes of brutal gun blasting, it will make gore hounds happy (with really well made special effects), also the soundtrack is amazing. Good performance of Fabio Testi, in the role of "Luca"

"Contraband" was made after the success of Zombie 2, another Fulci masterpiece.

Plot: Luca is a cigarette smuggler, "working" in Naples, Italy. After a boat chase with the police, Luca suspects that someone is trying to frame him. A group of Cocaine Smugglers are trying to "replace" the Cigarette smuggling by killing and threating all the cigarette smugglers that will go against them.....

Trivia: Fulci makes a cameo in the final shootout as: a old man with the glasses shooting with a machine gun.