Counselor at Crime

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Counselor at Crime
Alberto de Martino
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Adriano Bolzoni
  • Vincenzo Flamini
  • Leonardo Martin
  • Arlberto de Martino[1]
Produced byEdmondo Amati[1]
Starring
Cinematography
Aristide Massaccesi
Edited byOtello Colangeli[1]
Music byRiz Ortolani[1]
Production
companies
  • Capitolina Produzioni Cinematografiche
  • Star S/A
Distributed byFida Cinematografica
Release date
  • August 30, 1973 (1973-08-30) (Italy)
Running time
100 minutes
Countries
Box office₤685.486 million

Counselor at Crime (Italian: Il consigliori, also known as The Counsellor) is a 1973 Italian-Spanish crime film directed by Alberto De Martino and starring Tomas Milian, Martin Balsam and Francisco Rabal.[2][3][4]

Cast

Production

Counselor at Crime was filmed at Cinecitta in

Albuquerque, Palermo and Sicily.[1]

The cinematography was done by

Alberto de Martino spoke positively on working with D'Amato, stating that he "didn't talk nonsense, he knew how to do his job, and he was quick. It took him a couple of seconds to understand how to light a scene. And whenever he was in trouble with the lighting, he would take the camera in his own hands".[1]

De Martino admitted to having trouble during the screenwriting of the film, stating that he initially wrote the script with his collaborators.[1] They later hired Leonardo Martin to write another part and when they gave the script to producer Edmondo Amati, he stated that it was alright but wanted the dialogue to be revised by his friend Michael Gazzo.[1] A month later, Gazzo sent him a script that was entirely re-written.[1][5]

De Martino also spoke about Dagmar Lassander, stating that he "cast her in Rome a couple of months before shooting started. She'd just had a baby and I told her she had to lose weight. She said 'Of course, one month's a long time!".[5] When arriving in Albuquerque, she had not lost the weight and De Martino kept her in the film as he would not be able to find a replacement.[5]

Release

Counselor at Crime was released in Italy on August 30, 1973 where it was distributed by Fida Cinematografica.[1] The film grossed a total of 685,486,000 Italian lire in Italy.[1]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Curti 2013, p. 79.
  2. ISBN 8876059350
    .
  3. ISBN 8871805860
    .
  4. ISBN 8860736269
    .
  5. ^ a b c Curti 2013, p. 80.

References

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

See also

External links

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