Cry Chicago

Cry Chicago
Cry Chicago
Directed by	Javier Setó
Written by	Javier Setó; Luigi Mondello
Starring	Jeffrey Hunter, Guglielmo Spoletini, Gogó Rojo, Eduardo Fajardo, Víctor Israel
Cinematography	Emilio Foriscot
Edited by	Antonio Gimeno
Music by	Gian Franco Reverberi
Release date	22 September 1969
Running time	105 minutes
Countries	Spain; Italy
Languages	Spanish; Italian
Budget	8 169 771 ESP

Cry Chicago (originally ¡Viva América! and also released as The Mafia Mob, Italian: La vera storia di Frank Mannata) is a 1969 Spanish-Italian crime film directed by the Catalan film director Javier Setó (in the credit Saviero Seto), starring Jeffrey Hunter, Guglielmo Spoletini, Eduardo Fajardo, Víctor Israel, Pier Angeli, Margaret Lee and Gogó Rojo.

Plot

After the Great Depression Francesco Mannata started out to America from Sicily to his brother Salvatore in Chicago. Francesco takes the name Frank Mannata and with Salvatore and their sister, Rosella organized a mafia empire. The mafia war breaks out between the Sicilian Mannatas and the Italo-Irish O'Connor-Messina gangs. Many people die in the conflicts (including Salvatore and Rose); finally, Frank Mannata is killed by the minor gangster Dr. MacDonald.

Cast

Jeffrey Hunter: Frank (Francesco) Mannata
Guglielmo Spoletini: Salvatore Mannata, Frank's brother
Margaret Lee: Lucy Barrett, Frank's wife
Gogó Rojo: Rosella (Rose) Mannata, Frank's sister
Pier Angeli: Bambi (as Anna Maria Pierangeli), Salvatore's lover
Eduardo Fajardo: Dick O'Connor, Irish gangster boos
Víctor Israel: Dr. MacDonald, doctor, consultant and gangster
Beni Deus: Timothy, Rosella's Greek husband
Paloma Cela
Luis Induni: Buchanan, police chief of Chicago
Sun De Sanders: Patricia
Barta Barri: Matón, O'Connor's henchman
Antonio Pica: Federel agent Ethen Lason
Ricardo Palacios: Charlie Romero, bar owner
Lola Villar: prostituta
Mike Brendel
Miguel del Castillo: O'Brian, gangster and O'Connor's mate
Juan Olaguivel: O'Brian's bodyguard and driver
Fernando Bilbao
Kathy Lagarde
Yamil Omar: Turkish immigrant
Antonia Mas: Mammy, proprietress of bordello
Rafael Vaquero
Adolfo Thous
Manuel Bermúdez Boliche
José Solís
Armando Calvo: Senator Charles Temple

Production

Setó's movie partly is the epigon of crime film They Paid with Bullets: Chicago 1929 (1969) of Julio Diamante.

While in Spain in November 1968 to film Cry Chicago,

Van Nuys, California.^[1]^[2] He fell and struck his head on a banister, fracturing his skull.^[3] He was found unconscious and taken to Valley Presbyterian Hospital where he underwent brain surgery to repair his injuries. He died the following morning at the age of 42.^[4]

This was Hunter's final completed film role.