An
enterprising Mafia hood tries to establish a heroin smuggling route
from Turkey to New York City via Sicily. He uses various ploys along
the way (ie., putting drugs inside dead bodies, frozen fish shipments,
etc) to get the opium safely to New York while dealing with both
the Mafia and the International police agents along the way.
Filmmaker
Ferdinando Baldi was considered one of the all-time best directors of
Spaghetti Westerns, helming a number of the truly great entries (includingBLINDMAN
andHATE
THY NEIGHBOR). He also made other genre favorites, like this
film and the sex/horror opus TERROR
EXPRESS!. Director Baldi - who sometimes signed his films as
Ted Kaplan or Ferdy Baldwin - retired from filmmaking in 1988. He died
peacefully in his sleep at age 90 in November 2007.
This
film stars Ben Gazarra, arguably America's best 'unknown' actor. After
spinning his wheels in numerous Hollywood B-Features in the early '60s,
he turned to television where he found himself heading in the relatively
popular Run For Your Lifeseries (1964-68) on NBC. That
led to a series of made-for-TV movies which also did nothing for his
career. In 1972, he took an offer from a group of Italian producers
to make movies in Europe. This was his first and many others followed,
including Pasquale Festa Campanile's erotic masterpiece GIRL
FROM TRIESTE). After proving himself Internationally, Mr Gazarra
returned to the United States to work with his friend John Cassavetes.
His appearance in three Cassavetes' arthouse films in the '70s finally
established Ben as a contender. He would make many big and small films
for the next 4 decades (especially notable is Tony Viale's VERY
MEAN MEN, 2000). After 100+ films and
TV performances, Ben Gazarra died from pancreatic cancer at age 81 in
February 2012.
An
Italian film, in English language; widescreen format (16:9), uncut version
(96 minutes),
DVD encoded for ALL REGIONS NTSC; extras include selected trailers.
Graphic
Violence/Nudity/Drugs
For Mature Audiences
