An experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their ground for mutual respect and trust.
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Title: The Beast (1974)
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| Giancarlo Giannini | ... | Nino Patrovita | |
| Michel Constantin | ... | Sandro Colautti | |
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Giuseppe Maffioli | ... | Super Shell |
| Giuliana Calandra | ... | Amalia | |
| Dalila Di Lazzaro | ... | Magda | |
| Enzo Fiermonte | ... | Matteo Zaghi | |
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Jole Fierro | ... | Colautti's ex-wife |
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Philippe Hersent | ... | Owner of CISA Car Company |
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Carlo Gaddi | ... | Camorrista |
| Gabriella Giorgelli | ... | Zoe | |
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Attilio Duse | ... | Truck driver |
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Anna Mazzamauro | ... | Friend of Amalia |
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Giorgio Trestini | ... | Andrea |
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Imma Piro | ... | Lella Colautti |
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Franco Angrisano | ... | Mafioso |
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An experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their ground for mutual respect and trust.
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on the road | male male relationship | homosexual subtext | truck driver |Certificate:
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Written by Susan Duncan Smith - Marcello Fondato - Guido De Angelis & Maurizio De Angelis
Performed by Oliver Onions
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ItalianRelease Date:
20 November 1974 (France) See more »Also Known As:
The S-Wheel Beast See more »Company Credits
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What could I say about this Italian flick starring Michel Constantin? Nothing much, I am afraid. The tale of two truck drivers who have to fight against the local mafia. Not really a road movie, but a talkative film, in the pure Italian fashion, with a few action sequences. But, beware, nothing to do with other brutal Italian movies as we could see in the seventies. Flat, boring, a sort of GAS-OIL rip off, made twenty years earlier by Gilles Grangier and starring Jean Gabin. Nearly the same scheme. I am not surprised there is only one review for this movie. Not a crap, after all Sergio Corbucci was not a crap maker. Only one thing, it's important you like Italian cinema, with everything that means, in terms of filming, sound, score, acting. Otherwise, get away from it. There could have been a fantastic climax with the truck sequence, near the cliff, but unfortunately it failed. And also an unexpected, unusual and unsatisfactory ending, which many will disapprove. I like it.
A good time waster anyway.