Bandits in Milan

Bandits in Milan
Film poster under alternative English title
Banditi a Milano
Directed by	Carlo Lizzani
Screenplay by	Massimo De Rita Dino Maiuri Carlo Lizzanii[1]
Story by	Carlo Lizzani[1]
Produced by	Dino De Laurentiis[1]
Starring	Gian Maria Volonté Don Backy Ray Lovelock Margaret Lee Tomas Milian
Cinematography	Giuseppe Ruzzolini[1]
Edited by	Franco Fraticelli[1]
Music by	Riz Ortolani[1]
Production company	Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures[1]
Release date	30 March 1968 (1968-03-30)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Italy[1]
Box office	₤1.768 billion

Bandits in Milan (Italian: Banditi a Milano; also known as The Violent Four) is a 1968 Italian crime film directed by Carlo Lizzani. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival,[2] but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.[3] It is the debut film of Agostina Belli.[4]^[page needed] In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[5]

Production

Like director Carlo Lizzani's previous film Wake Up and Die is based on a real life event, specifically a bank robbery that went wrong in Milan on 25 September 1967.[1]

Cast

• Gian Maria Volonté as Piero Cavallero
• Tomas Milian as Commissario Basevi
• Don Backy as Sante Notarnicola
• Ray Lovelock as Donato 'Tuccio' Lopez
• Ezio Sancrotti as Adriano Rovoletto 'Bartolini'
• Piero Mazzarella as Piva
• Laura Solari as Tuccio's Mother
• Peter Martell as The Protector
• Margaret Lee as Prostitute
• Carla Gravina as Anna
• Luigi Rossetti as Robber
• María Rosa Sclauzero as Piero's Secretary
• Ida Meda as Moglie di Piero
• Tota Ruta as Club Hitman
• Evi Rossi Scotti
• Gianni Bortolotti
• Agostina Belli as Ragazza in ostaggio
• Pupo De Luca as Uomo della 1100

Release

Bandits in Milan was released on 30 March 1968.[1] It grossed just over ₤1.768 million in Italy.[1] As of 2013, the film has never been released on home video.[1]

Notes

1. Curti, 2013. p. 11
2. "Festival de Cannes: Bandits in Milan". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
3. "1968 - On the beach, pavers". Retrieved 10 December 2013.
4. Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi (2003). Dizionario del cinema italiano, Le Attrici. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 888440214X.
5. "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 11 March 2021.

References

• Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469765.

External links

• Bandits in Milan at IMDb