A terrific film with a top-notch cast! Jack and Henry play hit men ordered to kill Eddie. Jack is torn between his orders and the loyalty he feels to his old pal, Eddie. An intriguing look ...
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Title: Hail, Mafia (1965)
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| Henry Silva | ... | Schaft | |
| Jack Klugman | ... | Phil | |
| Micheline Presle | ... | Daisy | |
| Elsa Martinelli | ... | Sylvia | |
| Eddie Constantine | ... | Rudy Hamberg | |
| Michael Lonsdale | ... | Hyman | |
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Ricky Cooper | ... | Ben |
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Tener Eckelberry | ... | Hyman (as T.R. Ekelberry) |
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Carl Studer | ... | Ruidosa (as Karl Studer) |
| Donald O'Brien | ... | Mafia Thug (as Daniel O'Brien) | |
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Jean-Marc Allègre | ... | (as Jean Marc Allegre) |
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Danielle Couprayen | ||
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A terrific film with a top-notch cast! Jack and Henry play hit men ordered to kill Eddie. Jack is torn between his orders and the loyalty he feels to his old pal, Eddie. An intriguing look at the emotional make-up of Mafia hit men. A truly memorable climax. We definitely recommend this great crime/intrigue thriller. 16mm. Written by Anonymous
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Eddie is not the main actor in this film, although it is all about him. The mafia in New York sees him as a threat to their existence, and two professional killers are sent out to kill him off in the south of France, Marseilles and Camargue. The language here is English, Eddie is better and more at home in French films, and the two American killers are also not quite at ease in France, always denigratingly comparing it with California. The action is very slow to begin with, allowing the jazz music to dominate the greater part of the film, but eventually it towers into something of a very interesting drama, as the two killers are very different and there for very different motives, leading to arguments and some serious questioning. The audience is in for some interesting surprises.
The drama somewhat overshadows the interesting story, there is also the case of Eddie's lady, who can't understand Eddie's actions while he can't explain them to her, for reasons that will appear perhaps too late. It's a tense very noir drama, you have to wait for something to happen in this dark thriller, which actually is very plain, but it's the complications that make it interesting.