FERNANDO DI LEO CRIME COLLECTION (2011)
complete 4-disc set
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Director: Fernando Di Leo
DVD Studio: Raro Video
DVD Release Date: March 15, 2011
Description
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The inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s early films, Fernando Di Leo is the master of garish, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters who perfects the genre with an uncanny accuracy. For the first time digitally restored and remastered in collaboration with the Venice Film Festival, 4 of Fernando Di Leo’s masterpieces in one box set. Includes CALIBER 9, THE ITALIAN CONNECTION, THE BOSS, and RULERS OF THE CITY.
Format: NTSC
DVD Size: 7.74 + 6.16 + 7.42 + 5.10 Gb -- Exact Untouched Copy
Runtime (total): 387 minutes
Type: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 | Anamorphic (all)
Sound (main feature): Italian DD2.0 | English DD2.0 (all)
Subtitles: optional English (all)
Set Features
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Disc 1
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MILANO CALIBRO 9 (1972) / CALIBER 9 (1972)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067429/
Career criminal Ugo Piazza (Gaston Moschin, Lion of the Desert) is released from prison after serving three years for robbery. His former mob associates, as well as the police, believe Piazza set himself up to be arrested. It seems that the same day he was arrested for the robbery $300,000 went missing during a money drop, and the mob and the police believe Piazza was responsible. They think he got himself arrested and jailed to avoid retribution, and that he's got the money hidden somewhere.
Features:
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# Documentary Calibro 9.
# Documentary on Fernando di Leo: La Morale del Genere.
# Documentary Scerbanenco Noir.
# Photo Gallery with audio commentary by Gastone Moschin.
# Director biography and filmography.
# Digitally Restored and Remastered.
# New and Improved English subtitle translation.
Disc 2
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LA MALA ORDINA (1972) / THE ITALIAN CONNECTION (1972)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068902/
When a New York mob's heroin shipment is ripped off en route to Italy, the Italian mob fingers pimp Luca Canali (Mario Adorf). Canali used to work with the Italian gangsters, but he didn't have the heart of a killer, so they parted ways.
Features:
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# Documentary: The Roots of The Mafia.
# Photo Gallery.
# Director biography and filmography.
# Digitally Restored and Remastered.
# New and Improved English subtitle translation.
Disc 3
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IL BOSS (1973) / WIPEOUT! (1973)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069818/
Mob assassin Lanzetta (Henry Silva) wipes out the Attardi mob family in a particularly spectacular fashion: he blows them up using a grenade launcher while they're watching a porn movie.
Features:
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# Documentary: Stories About The Mafia.
# Director biography and filmography.
# Digitally Restored and Remastered.
# New and Improved English subtitle translation.
Disc 4
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MR. SCARFACE (1976) / I PADRONI DELLA CITTA (1976) / RULERS OF THE CITY (1976)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076518/
Tony (Harry Baer, Fox and His Friends) is a young ex-boxer turned debt collector for low-level loan shark Luigi (Edmund Purdom, The Yellow Rolls-Royce). Tony wants to start making better money, but because of his youth, inexperience, and comparatively nonchalant manner, Luigi and his men don't take him too seriously.
Features:
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# Documentary: Violent City.
# Director biography and filmography.
# Digitally Restored and Remastered.
# New and Improved English subtitle translation.
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