A local goodhearted pimp named Luca(played by Mario Adorf), is framed for stealing a shipment of heroin from New York to Italy by a rival mob. The New York connection spotting this, hires 2 hit men(Henry Silva and Woody Strode) to track and kill Luca and get the drugs back. With the mob and these two amercian hit men after him, Luca Starts to question everyone and fights to stay alive long enough to find out who set him up.
The Italian Connection is the second film in The Milieu Trilogy by director Fernando Di Leo. Caliber 9 was the first film in the series and that's about as connected these two movies get to being linked together other then sharing some of the cast. Both movies tho, do deal with the crime underworld with a seance that theres even good criminals upon the main group of bastards. Luca isn't a bad guy, his a pimp but at the same time, he treats his girls well and his great father to his daughter.
Luca, eventhou he hides his anger, could snap anytime. The element of hidden rage is thou out the movie, and it proves to add the right tone for the movie. Most of the action in this movie comes from that. At the start of it a man almost attacks him and threatens him with a knife, soon Luca strikes and takes him down. Later Luca actually snaps and has a slap fight against two goons.
The violence level in gerenal is upped from Caliber 9 in many ways. The hidden anger of Luca is a big element,When he snaps he takes revenge to new levels. When his daughter is ran over in great detail by the mob, Luca steals a car, starts a car chase with them, then loses the car so he jumps on the hit man's van and starts headbutting the windshield then finally beats the driver to death!
On the acting side of The Italian Connection we get a great cast of action actors. Mario Adorf gets a better and bigger part then he got in Caliber 9. Here he gets to play a not so bad,bad guy and proves he can do action. Cult movie badass character actor Henry Silva, plays a scary and funny hitman while Woody strode is quiet and cool,both are great as the hit men,which makes the ending shootout even more fun to watch. Adolfo Celi of Thunderball(1965) and Danger Diabolik(1968) is great as the sleazy mob boss aswell.
The Italian Connection is a great Euro crime movie thats just as good as Calbier 9 just with a darker grib and more action.
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