Gangbuster (film)

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Gangbuster
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Directed byAlberto Marras
Screenplay by
Produced by
  • Vincenzo Salviani
  • Giuliano Anellucci [1]
Starring
CinematographyAngelo Bevilacqua [1]
Edited byAmedeo Giomini [1]
Music by Ubaldo Continiello [1]
Production
companies
  • T.D.L. Film
  • Angry Film [1]
Distributed byRegional
Release date
  • 22 September 1977 (1977-09-22)(Italy)
Running time
95 minutes [1]

Gangbuster (Italian : L'avvocato della mala) is a 1977 crime film written and directed by Alberto Marras. [2] [3] [4]

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Cast

Production

Gangbuster was filmed at Elios Film in Rome. [1] The film was producer Alberto Marras' only film made as a director. [1]

Release

Gangbuster was distributed theatrically in Italy on 22 September 1977. [1] When the film was released on home video in VHS in Italy it has an 88 minute and 29 second running time, and in Germany it had a 85 minute and 51 second running time, and was a different version of the film with inserts from Meet Him and Die . [1] These included the car chases and prison fights from that film, and it featured a different sound score, such as Franco Micalizzi's theme from Merciless Man . [5]

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References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Curti 2013, p. 218.
  2. ↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN   8876059350.
  3. ↑ Roberto Curti (2006). Italia odia: il cinema poliziesco italiano. Lindau, 2006. ISBN   8871805860.
  4. ↑ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN   8860736269.
  5. ↑ Curti 2013, p. 219.

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