Street People (1976)

A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The ... See full summary »

Directors:

Maurizio Lucidi, Guglielmo Garroni (as William Garroni)

Writers:

Roberto Leoni (story), Franco Bucceri (story)

Stars:

Roger Moore, Stacy Keach, Ivo Garrani

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Roger Moore	...	Ulisse
Stacy Keach	...	Charlie Hanson
Ivo Garrani	...	Salvatore Francesco
Fausto Tozzi	...	Luigi Nicoletta
Ennio Balbo	...	Continenza
Loretta Persichetti	...	Hannah
Pietro Martellanza	...	Pano
Luigi Casellato	...	Pete
Romano Puppo	...	Fortunate
Rosemarie Lindt	...	Salvatore's girlfriend
Aldo Rendine
Emilio Vale
Salvatore Torrisi
Franco Fantasia	...	Priest
Ettore Manni	...	Il padre Frank

Storyline

A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.

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Plot Keywords:

pool hall | beer | red wine | driver | smuggling | 

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Taglines:

Gang War ... And the Hunting Season Has Opened in the Naked City!

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

17 September 1976 (USA)

Also Known As:

Street People

Filming Locations:

Sausalito, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Aetos Produzioni Cinematografiche

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Sir Roger Moore stated in his memoirs, that neither he nor Stacy Keach understood the film they were making, and still didn't understand it when watching the final print.

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Goofs

The windshield on Ulisse's car is blown completely out when the hit man fires his first shot at it, but when the hit man approaches the vehicle moments later, the windshield is now intact but heavily cracked.

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Quotes

Charlie Hanson: Excuse me sweetheart, can you tell me where the powdered milk is?
Grocery Store Cashier: Row four, behind the sugar, in front of the flour. Pasteurized, pulverized, reconstituted, dehydrated and skimmed; add water, stir, tastes like shit.
Charlie Hanson: ...thanks.

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Connections

References Jaws (1975)

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Soundtracks

Lilla (Theme)
Written and Performed by Luis Bacalov And Orchestra

User Reviews

For Roger Moore completists only

This film is one of the hardest Roger Moore films to track down, other than the almost forgotten Sunday Lovers. The version I saw was entitled The Executors and ran for 100 minutes, and as far as I'm aware it is the most complete edition of the film in circulation. Other editions include Sicilian Cross, Gli Esecutori and Street People. Under any title it is not a good film..... in fact, it is one of the worst examples of Italian profiteering movie making.

The film is similar to The French Connection. It deals with drug peddlars in San Francisco. In order to smuggle their latest consignment in the US, they have used a wooden crucifix sent as a gift to the Californian fishermen from the island of Sicily. This enrages the local godfather, who sends his nephew Moore to catch the culprits. Moore enlists the aid of his hard-driving buddy Stacy Keach and eventually tracks down the villains, but the truth affects him more personally and emotively than he could have foreseen.

The film is full of under developed moments. There's a great opportunity for a classic car chase, but the sequence is badly editted and makes little sense. The final showdown could have packed a real wallop, but it fizzles out without generating anything of note. The best scene involves Keach wrecking a car, but even then it isn't a great scene... merely a mediocre scene in a movie full of bad scenes.

Moore gives an OK performance and Keach is pretty good in his usual casual way. The foreign actors are embarrassingly dubbed and look foolish as a result. All in all, this film is for Roger Moore completists only,as anybody else will certainly find it a hard slog.