| Spaghetti House | |
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| Directed by | Giulio Paradisi |
| Written by | Age & Scarpelli Peter Barnes Nino Manfredi |
| Starring | Nino Manfredi |
| Cinematography | Giuliano Giustini |
| Music by | Gianfranco Plenizio |
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| Country | Italy |
| Languages | Italian English |
Spaghetti House is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Giulio Paradisi. [1] [2] It is loosely based on the Spaghetti House siege that occurred in 1975.
In an attempted armed robbery of an Italian restaurant in London, the staff members are taken hostage by three gunmen. The police besiege the building, but in the meantime an unexpected solidarity among hostages and criminals is born.
The Spaghetti House siege took place between 28 September and 3 October 1975. An attempted robbery of the Spaghetti House restaurant in Knightsbridge, London, went wrong and the police were quickly on the scene. The three robbers took the staff down into a storeroom and barricaded themselves in. They released all the hostages unharmed after six days. Two of the gunmen gave themselves up; the ringleader, Franklin Davies, shot himself in the stomach. All three were later imprisoned, as were two of their accomplices.
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