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La revanche du Sicilien

Original title: Johnny Cool
  • 1963
  • 16
  • 1h 43m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
1.1K
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Elizabeth Montgomery and Henry Silva in La revanche du Sicilien (1963)
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Exiled American gangster Colini sends his protégé-killer Giordano to the USA to eliminate Colini's mob enemies.Exiled American gangster Colini sends his protégé-killer Giordano to the USA to eliminate Colini's mob enemies.Exiled American gangster Colini sends his protégé-killer Giordano to the USA to eliminate Colini's mob enemies.

  • Director
    • William Asher
  • Writers
    • Joseph Landon
    • John McPartland
  • Stars
    • Henry Silva
    • Elizabeth Montgomery
    • Richard Anderson
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    • Director
      • William Asher
    • Writers
      • Joseph Landon
      • John McPartland
    • Stars
      • Henry Silva
      • Elizabeth Montgomery
      • Richard Anderson
    • 30User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
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    Elizabeth Montgomery and Henry Silva in La revanche du Sicilien (1963)
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    Henry Silva
    Henry Silva
    • Johnny Cool…
    Elizabeth Montgomery
    Elizabeth Montgomery
    • Darien 'Dare' Guiness
    Richard Anderson
    Richard Anderson
    • Correspondent
    Jim Backus
    Jim Backus
    • Louis Murphy
    Joey Bishop
    Joey Bishop
    • Holmes - Used Car Salesman
    Brad Dexter
    Brad Dexter
    • Lennart Crandall
    Wanda Hendrix
    Wanda Hendrix
    • Miss Connolly
    Hank Henry
    Hank Henry
    • Larry - Bus Driver
    Marc Lawrence
    Marc Lawrence
    • Johnny Colini
    John McGiver
    John McGiver
    • Oscar B. 'Oby' Hinds
    Gregory Morton
    Gregory Morton
    • Jerry March
    Mort Sahl
    Mort Sahl
    • Ben Morrow
    Telly Savalas
    Telly Savalas
    • Vincenzo 'Vince' Santangelo
    Joan Staley
    Joan Staley
    • Suzy
    Sammy Davis Jr.
    Sammy Davis Jr.
    • Educated
    Katharine Bard
    Katharine Bard
    • Mrs. Crandall
    Steve Peck
    • Kromlein
    • (as Steven Peck)
    Frank Albertson
    Frank Albertson
    • Bill Blakely
    • Director
      • William Asher
    • Writers
      • Joseph Landon
      • John McPartland
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    • Trivia
      An article in the 21 October 1962 edition of the Los Angeles Times called Elizabeth Montgomery "the most bruised actress in pictures". During this production she had a car door slammed on her hand and suffered contusions jumping from a pier onto a boat, among other injuries. Plus, she had to endure the filming of a brutal rape scene which ended up on the cutting room floor.
    • Goofs
      In the second half of the film, after Darien abandons her car in front of the beauty parlor, the police show up. The police later describe it as being a "1961 Ford". It is in fact a 1962 Ford (Galaxie 500 Sunliner).
    • Quotes

      Johnny Colini: While you are here, you'll go through a process of polishing designed to make you "civilised". A little, not too much. On the surface, not inside. When I decide you're ready, you'll do a job for me, a job no other man could do. I want you to go to those who betrayed me, take back what they stole and make them dead. Do that and what is mine, is yours. You will be my son.

      Johnny Cool: I am no son of Colini. You disgraced us in America.

      Johnny Colini: Hmm, there is a streak of decency in you. You've gotta get rid of that streak.

      Johnny Cool: They teach you to murder in Chicago and then they send you back to us.

      Johnny Colini: And you, who taught you to murder?

      Johnny Cool: I am no criminal. I never murder for money. All I have done, I have done for my people.

      Johnny Colini: Yes, I'm a criminal. I know it. I am not kind, I know that. I'm not even a generous man. I go to church and lie to God. What's mine is mine because I'm selfish, mean and cruel. There is no one I could point to and say, "this is the reason why Colini is a murderer" but you, you have the people. Poor people. Mr Giordano, you're a liar, yourself. The people, the poor people, aren't you weary of taking bows? You ate well, you've stolen everything you wanted and when you're belly was full, you gave the rest away. I know you, my young friend.

      Johnny Cool: I am no friend of yours.

      Johnny Colini: You will be, you have no other choice. I put you in the streets, you'll be dead within the hour. Or you'll do the job I picked for you and you'll become rich. More money and wealth than a peasant could dream.

      Johnny Cool: Ten million lire.

      Johnny Colini: You will not understand a number that big. But you'll learn. Take you a long time. But I will teach you. I'll teach you America: the clothes; how to walk; how to act; who has the money, where it comes from; which are the important names and where their power lies. And when I've finished, you'll be one of three men in the world who knows it all. This I teach you. But in the end, what will count is what is here

      [he pokes him in the chest]

      Johnny Colini: .

      Johnny Colini: In your hills you have been a glorious success, we'll now see what you do with a mountain, America. You prove you can be the son of Colini and in a few years when I have gone, you will inherit my kingdom.

    • Connections
      Featured in Best in Action: 1963 (2019)
    • Soundtracks
      The Ballad Of Johnny Cool
      lyrics by Sammy Cahn

      music by Jimmy Van Heusen (as James Van Heusen)

      sung by Sammy Davis Jr.

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    9/10
    'Lost' classic crime movie
    'Lost' classic crime movie, with 'Rat Pack' member Peter Lawford as Executive Producer, and featuring Rat Packers Sammy Davis Jr. and Joey Bishop in single scene cameos, this is an often brutal mob movie featuring glacial Henry Silva as a pitiless, downbeat anti-hero pitting his wits and weaponry against a variety of slick-suited, big-city mobsters operating behind an outwardly respectable veneer. Opening the movie as a Salvatore Giuliano-type Sicilian folk-hero (the early scenes show a young 'Johnny' being taken under Giuliano's wing in World War II after witnessing his mother's death at the hands of the Nazis), 'Johnny' is reinvented and resurrected by Marc Lawrence's exiled 'Lucky Luciano' type syndicate boss, who has arranged his faked death in order to set him loose against the former Stateside associates who are now lining their pockets with his ill-gotten gains. Swiftly acquiring Elizabeth Montgomery's thrill-seeking, well-heeled moll (a cinematic half-sister to the similarly enthralled Claire Trevor in Robert Wise's BORN TO KILL), Johnny sets about his one-man vendetta amidst the boardrooms, casinos and fancy spreads with a singleminded ruthlessness that, in its settings and attitude (if not it's visual style) appears to foreshadow Lee Marvin's similarly brutal rampage through the well-heeled trappings of contemporary corporate America four years later in POINT BLANK. Comparisons aside, this is a slick slice of thick-ear hardboiled crime, aided by a snappy Billy May score and Sammy Davis Jr. theme which adds to the sense of pace and rhythm engendered by William (BEACH PARTY) Asher's snappy direction. And the ending's a killer (pun intended). Undoubtedly worthy of wider (any!) availability, as it's an often cynical, but arresting crime movie (pun similarly intended)with the makings of a cult. Catch it if you can.
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    • Aug 19, 2001

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    • Release date
      • January 17, 1964 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Johnny Cool
    • Filming locations
      • 122 West 49th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(Johnny pulls into parking garage by the Golden Horn Armenian restaurant - all soon to be demolished for Rockefeller Center expansion)
    • Production company
      • Chrislaw Productions
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    • Budget
      • $500,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 43 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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