She gets half of her face roasted with a Bunsen burner, and while her flesh darkens and peels off, the Marsigliese leers with barely repressed pleasure. Luca stabs some dude in the heart and twists the blade while questioning him, but top honors have to go to the liaison woman who tries to pass a shipment of very diluted heroin to the Marsigliese. Two hundred thousand people! The racket is so ingrained that even Catholic nuns transport the goods in mission vans. There is the expected abundance of bushy mustaches, and some guy that gets grabbed while eating spaghetti and takes the plate along to jail. We are informed several times of the “fact” that the contraband of cigarettes feeds the mouths of about 200,000 Neapolitans, though it is unclear whether the merchandise goes on its way to the rest of Italy and Europe or stays in Naples to supply the local demand: in one scene, we see a dilapidated alley with no less than three guys selling packs of Malboros. Given Contraband’s classy qualities, that is taking a step up in the movie gangster ladder and falling a dozen in the actor ladder… Anyway, during his varied career Bozzuffi had the privilege of working for directors like Jean-Pierre Melville and Michelangelo Antonioni. Not American, but the late Marcel Bozzuffi, whom you may remember as the ruthless hitman of The French connection, plays “The Marsigliese”, head of the drug-trafficking ring. Will the Naples underworld go for it?ī-list American actors / have-beens earning a fast paycheck Their luck changes when several of the racket’s bosses are murdered by an evil gang of French heroin peddlers, who want to use the boats to pass something other than harmless tobacco.
Luca (Fabio Testi) and his pals are a bunch of honest, hard-working cigarette smugglers whose biggest concern is evading the cops in their dashing wood motorboats. Subtitled or no, could you explain the plot? The copy I watched patched up some missing bits with an unbelievably awful English dub, which added some unintended, welcomed comedy. You can visit their site below.I found a pack on several Scando languages, so that’s a no.
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Are these flicks worth watching ? Listen to Dr. This was such a fun episode to record and we hope you the listener will enjoy as well. This week is our Italian Horror Episode once again and we are back with Lucio Fulci's 1980 crime drama Contraband as well as 1990 Cat In The Brain. Welcome to episode 143 of Land Of The Creeps.
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