Summer grab-bag, part one
As usual, there’s no coherent pattern to what I spend my time watching. In the past few months, I given my overtaxed attention to quite a few movies from the ’70s and ’80s – British sex comedies and cop movies, Italian […]
Review: Revolver (1973)
Director: Sergio Sollima
Cast: Fabio Testi, Oliver Reed, Paola Pitagora, Agostina Belli, Frédéric de Pasquale,
Fabio Testi
Oliver Reed
Paola Pitagora
Agostina Belli
Frédéric de Pasquale
Plot: An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.
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