A lengthy investigation and numerous court trials never managed to pinpoint definitive responsibility for the bombing, in a large part due to the obstruction by right wing forces within the Italian government and intelligence services. Initially blamed on left wing militants, suspicion for the act rapidly shifted to a paramilitary neo fascist organisation known as the New Order. This period, referred to as Italy’s anni di piombo or ‘Years of Lead’, is generally acknowledged to have started with the December 1969 bombing of Milan’s Piazza Fontana, in which 17 people were killed and 88 injured. In addition to American crime cinema, the poliziotteschi were profoundly influenced by and reflected the political, economic and social turmoil that swept Italy from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Henry Silva, Woody Strode, John Saxon, Richard Conti, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Telly Savalas, Yul Brunner, Edward G Robinson, James Mason and Joseph Cotton all appeared in poliziotteschi films. As well as their European stars, the films also functioned as vehicles for American and British male stars whose big screen careers were on the slide in their home countries at the time. Poliziotteschi are characterised by fast paced action and graphic, often quite brutal on-screen violence, including at times sexual violence.
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The poliziotteschi was significantly influenced by the international box office success of American crime movies such as Bullitt (1968), Dirty Harry and The French Connection (1971), The Godfather (1972), and Michael Winner’s 1974 vigilante movie Death Wish. It also serves to focus some overdue attention one of the lesser-known but more interesting of the many poliziotteschi directors, Fernando Di Leo.
Calibre 9 is an excellent entry point to examine the Italian crime film phenomena known as the poliziotteschi, well over a hundred of which appeared from the late 1960s to 1980. Ugo denies he had anything to do with the missing cash, but no one, including the police and his ambitious stripper girlfriend (Barbara Bouchet), will believe him. Believing that Ugo took the money and stashed it while he was in jail, the Americano sends Rocco (German Italian actor Mario Adorf), a clownish but lethal mob enforcer, to retrieve it. A small time mafia foot soldier, Ugo Piazzo (Gastone Moschin, a famous Italian comic actor at the time), leaves prison only to be caught up in a conspiracy around the disappearance three years earlier of $300,000 from a Milanese crime boss known as the Americano. Fifty years ago, Milano Calibro 9, or Calibre 9 as it was released in the United States, hit Italian cinema screens.
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