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Overview
Three classic crime films from Fernando Di Leo - a prolific filmmaker who explored the political extremism and mafia corruption in Italy during the 1970's. Master of garish, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters, Di Leo has perfected the genre with an uncanny accuracy. Di Leo's films demonstrate the degradation of the working classes and how the mafia corrupted them. Though he slipped out of public consciousness after his death in 2003, his works have been revived and shown at the Tate Modern in London and The Venice Film Festival where Quentin Tarantino admitted that Di Leo truly inspired him to make gangster films. Contained in this box set is the Milieu Trilogy: Caliber 9 (Milano Calibro 9, 1972), The Italian Connection (La Mala Ordina, 1972), The Boss (Il Boxx, 1973).
- Number of Movies: 3
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Featured Cast
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Rocco Musco, Luca Canali
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Nick Lanzetta, Dave Catania
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Ugo Piazza
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Don Corrasco
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Nelly Bordon
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Frank Webster
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Police Commissioner Torri
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Police Commissioner
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Don Vito Tressoldi
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Rina D'Aniello
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Mercuri
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Eva Lalli
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Lawyer Rizzo
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Enrico Moroni
Featured Crew
February 15, 1972
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
October 31, 1973
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.
February 1, 1973
A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.