Days of Fire

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Days of Fire
Directed byMino Guerrini
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Adriano Baracco
  • Fernando Di Leo
  • Mino Guerrini[1]
Produced byBenito Pertaccini[1]
Starring
CinematographyFranco Delli Colli[1]
Edited byEnzo Micarelli[1]
Music byEgisto Macchi[1]
Production
company
Bema Film[1]
Distributed byI.N.D.I.E.F.
Release date
  • 30 April 1968 (1968-04-30) (Italy)
Running time
110 minutes[1]
CountryItaly[1]
Box office83,977 million

Days of Fire (Italian: Gangsters '70) is a 1968 Italian crime-thriller film written and directed by Mino Guerrini.[2][3][4]

Premise

After being released from prison, elderly Destil plans a heist to secure a peaceful retirement. He forms a gang and attempts to steal a briefcase full of diamonds, but another group of criminals catches onto his plan.

Cast

Production

Days of Fire was written by Fernando Di Leo under the title Elegia in un cimitero d'asfalto o Il sol nero (lit.'Elegy in an Asphalt Cemetery or Black Sun)'.[1]

Release

Days of Fire was distributed theatrically in Italy by I.N.D.I.E.F. on 30 April 1968.

Italian lire domestically.[1] Italian film historian and critic Roberto Curti stated that the movie was "unnoticed before critics and audiences alike".[5] Curti stated the film was not re-discovered until the late 1990s.[5]

The film has been released as Gangsters '70 and Days of Fire.[1] It was released in Canada on VHS by the UVI label in Italian.[1]

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Curti 2013, p. 23.
  2. ^ Roberto Curti. Italia odia: il cinema poliziesco italiano. Lindau, 2006.
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  5. ^ a b Curti 2013, p. 24.

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