When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he’s the wrong man. When the pimp’s wife and daughter are murdered in the course of the “manhunt”, he swears revenge on everyone who had anything to do with it.

The.Italian.Connection.1972.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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The post Fernando Di Leo – La Mala ordina AKA Manhunt (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The film starts with a dream sequence, wide-angled lens deformed characters, where the main actress, named Clara, is running away from male pleasure and taking refuge on a female companion and once again running away sensing in the female a reciprocal attraction.

The themes of the movie are the emancipation of women and the female pleasure, the breakdown of the typical family and its hypocritical values, brought forward by the sexually liberated youths influenced by the sexual revolution initiated in the States.

The movie portrays two social settings; on one side the old conservative patriarchal bourgeois family where the madonna mother figure, enclosed in the domestic space, is denied marital sexual pleasure so that order and control can be maintained in place and on the other side the sexually emancipated, fully ‘completed’ younger generation that lives their sexuality in the open, ‘under the sun’.

The film is very stereotypical in the treatment of generational differences and it is divided into four age groups.
The first age group is represented by the eldest woman, who is present in the film but only begs to be there, she wants to participate in this sexual education by offering money in exchange for sex.

Followed by the sexually asleep middle class woman, ten years younger, portrayed devoid of passions and self contained, who is charmed into physical pleasure by the politicized body of a young and attractive bay watcher.

The third age group is the bay watcher, representative of the rebellious youths, constituted in a communality of shared hedonistic goals, who ‘contaminate people with freedom’.

Then, the daughter, the youngest representative of the age groups, who is too young to go through the practice of sexual education, she is initiated by a coetaneous boy, himself a representative of ‘Baby Power’, into loving and preferring a modern cartoon character, Snoopy and to forget and demystify Mickey Mouse.

Stylistically the film is full of close ups, unusual angles and very colorful images. Some very fast cuts are used to give the cinematic sense of the comical and fast music is added to accompany the sequences and enhance the comedy feel.

The title of the film, Burn Boy Burn, is a phase that was first chanted by rioters in the Watts of Los Angeles in 1965. It is reminiscent of the Black Panther Party and the Black Power movement.

1.20GB | 1h 17m | 720×416 | avi

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The post Fernando Di Leo – Brucia, ragazzo, brucia AKA Burn, Boy, Burn (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
A rehabilitation hospital in the Italian countryside, which offers treatment for women suffering from various psychological disorders, is stalked by a mysterious cloaked killer.

Extra commentary track by genre expert Nathaniel Thompson is included.

2.82GB | 1h 36mn | 1024×444 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B417A21A5BD925E/La.bestia.uccide.a.sangue.freddo.AKA.Cold.Blooded.Beast.1971.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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The post Fernando Di Leo – La bestia uccide a sangue freddo AKA Slaughter Hotel AKA Cold Blooded Beast (1971) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Luc Merenda gives the performance of his career as a highly regarded police detective who is taking syndicate money in exchange for departmental favors. His father, a simple man, also works for the department but on a lower rung; he isn’t jealous of his son, but rather proud of him, little knowing that he’s a crooked cop. A series of events leads the young detective to ask his father for a favor (he wants a certain police report that is desired by the syndicate) and it doesn’t take long for the detective’s father to realize his son is on the take… which leads to numerous complications.

1.78GB | 1h 34mn | 1024×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8081D50B448103E/Il.Poliziotto.e.Marcio.1974.576p.BDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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The post Fernando Di Leo – Il poliziotto è marcio AKA Shoot First, Die Later (1974) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the fellows of Attardi’s clan a part from Cocchi. He immediately understands that the author of the bomb attack is Daniello from Don Corrasco’s clan. Cocchi is determined to revenge. His actions, including the Corrasco’s daughter kidnap, in a Palermo in which also the police is corrupted, will soon destroy the old equilibrium giving the way to an escalation of violence that won’t save anyone. If Cocchi will survive to the mafia war he will be the new boss for sure.

2.42GB | 1 h 49 min | 1024×560 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/7605A4350D42B5A/Il.Boss.1973.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.mkv

Language:Italian, English (2 audio tracks)
Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post Fernando Di Leo – Il boss AKA Wipeout! AKA The Boss (1973) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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The film was based on a subject by Mario Gariazzo, a director who in the seventies, gravitated into the orbit of Daunia and to whom Fernando di Leo “lent a hand” by offering advice for his script – for his detective film, The Bloody Hands of the Law – and for the production of his western, Holy Water Joe and the tear-jerker, The Balloon Vendor, a story vaguely inspired by William Wyler’s famous film, The Desperate Hours. At the start it was Gariazzo who was to direct it but at the producers’ insistence he was finally replaced by di Leo.

The budget was very low (the film was shot in a remote house in the Abruzzo mountains) and the means and number of actors (only four in all) were scarce, but di Leo managed to exploit those limitations in a creative way. He focused on the desolate setting to make the plot oppressive and claustrophobic and developed the psychology of the characters in a negative and neurotic sense in order to produce a constant tension, both in the dialogue and in the action. Although the director considered the film a minor entry in his filmography, Vacation for a Massacre (the original title belonged to an old script for a western which di Leo had written in the late Seventies: it must be said that in the reprints and the home-video market, the film also circulated under the title, Madness – Vacation for a Massacre), over time earned a certain admiration from the audience, especially abroad and particularly due to the violent and morbid pulsations which characterized it.

A word must be said about the leading actor, Joe Dallesandro, who came from Andy Warhol’s famous Factory and who on the set, maybe because of an intake of mysterious drugs, was capable of amazing physical feats.

	
Vacanze per un massacro.1980.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

The post Fernando Di Leo – Vacanze Per un Massacro aka Madness (1980) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Milan Calibre 9 (made in 1971 and released the following year) is the first chapter of the famous “Milieu Trilogy”, continued with Manhunt (La mala ordina) and ending with The Boss (Il boss) in which Fernando di Leo explores the different aspects of the world of organized crime. The title of the film is taken from a story by Giorgio Scerbanenco which is part of the book I Centodelitti. This Russian writer also inspired certain parts of scripts ( Stazione centrale ammazzare subitofor the bomb package, Vietato essere felici and La vendetta è il miglior perdono for certain characteristics belonging to the main character, Ugo Piazza). But basically, di Leo created this film independently, using the noir genre as a vehicle for his own sociological, anthropological and also philosophical ideas about the world of crime.

The successful result of Milan Calibre 9 is also due to the careful casting of the actors, especially Gastone Moschin, who for the first time in his career played a dramatic role; Barbara Bouchet – whom the director found in her beauty, reflections of the fierceness perfect for her character; Mario Adorf – who was responsible for a memorable interpretation of his role as the violent and sardonic Rocco Musco – and Lionel Stander, who starts off the tradition of great Hollywood actors used by di Leo in his noir films.

However, the main character of the film is the city, Milan, which breaks free from being just a background to the narrated story, becoming the centre of internal battles between the gangsters and the vital point of illegal economic interests. The soundtrack, composed by Luis Bacalov and performed by the group Osanna, is greatly significant, magnificently commenting the alternation of cruelty and lyricism which is the basis of what can rightly be considered a masterpiece by Fernando di Leo.

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The post Fernando Di Leo – Milano calibro 9 (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.