The Last Desperate Hours

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The Last Desperate Hours
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Directed by Giorgio Stegani
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Giovanni Addessi
  • Camillo Bazzoni
  • Franco Barbaresi [1]
Produced byGiovanni Addessi
Starring
Cinematography
  • Aldo De Robertis
  • Sandro Mancori [1]
Edited byOtello Colangeli [1]
Music by Gianni Marchetti
Production
company
Cristiana Cinematografica [1]
Distributed byOverseas Film Company
Release date
  • November 29, 1974 (1974-11-29)
Running time
94 minutes [1]
CountryItaly [1]
Box office ₤560.728 million

The Last Desperate Hours (Italian : Milano: il clan dei calabresi) is a 1974 Italian poliziottesco (Italian crime genre) Mafia film directed by Giorgio Stegani. [2]

Contents

Plot

Cast

Production

The film was shot on location in Milan and in Incir-De Paolis Studios in Rome. [1]

Release

The Last Desperate Hours was released in Italy on November 29, 1974, where it was distributed by the Overseas Film Company. [1] It grossed a total of 560.728 million Italian lire on its release. [1]

Reception

In his book Italian Crime Filmography 1968-1980, Roberto Curti noted that "the sociological ambitions end up in excruciating banalities, such as the confrontation between Mancuso and his poor but honest wife (Nicoletta Rizzi)" [3]

The score by Gianni Marchetti was re-used partially in the films Emanuelle's Revenge by Joe D'Amato and SS Girls by Bruno Mattei. [3]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Curti 2013, p. 113.
  2. ↑ "Gangsters e pestilenza". La Stampa . 12 June 1975. p. 8.
  3. 1 2 Curti 2013, p. 114.

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