Tag: Henry Silva

Fernando Di Leo’s ‘Milieu Trilogy’ on FilmStruck and Fandor

!Featured, Action / Crime, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Fandor, FilmStruck, Foreign Affairs, gangsters, SVOD 01/02/201801/02/2018 Sean Axmaker

Fernando di Leo was, in the estimation of genre-hound Quentin Tarantino, “the master” of the Italian crime movie, or the “poliziotteschi.” A violent action genre that picked up the escalating violence of American films like Dirty Harry and The French Connection, films where blood spattered and cops got their hands dirty, it was never as […]

Henry Silva and Woody Strode in Fernando di Leo's gangster classic

‘The Italian Connection’ – Mob schemes on FilmStruck and Fandor

!Featured, Action / Crime, Blu-ray, DVD, Fandor, FilmStruck, Spaghetti Cinema 02/12/201701/07/2018 Sean Axmaker

The Italian Connection (Italy, 1972), from Italy’s king of crime cinema Fernando di Leo, stars Mario Adani (the top dog thug of the Americano’s gang in di Leo’s earlier Caliber 9) as Luca, a remarkably affable and well-liked pimp whose popularity on the street makes the Milan boss nervous. So he frames Luca for a […]