Lucky Luciano (film)
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Countries | Italy France United States |
Languages | Italian English |
Lucky Luciano is a 1973 Italian/French/US
Lucky Luciano was shown as part of the Cannes Classics section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[6]
Plot
Born in Sicily as Salvatore Lucania, Charles “Lucky” Luciano rises to become “the boss of all bosses” of the American Mafia in the 1930s by eliminating his rivals for power. When eventually imprisoned, Luciano eventually secures his release by offering his services to military intelligence during World War II, receiving a commutation from New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey and subsequently being deported to Italy.
Settling in
When Giannini fails to get Siragusa the results he wants, he allows the informant to spend a year in an Italian jail for carrying
By 1962, dozens of Luciano's associates in the drug trade have been arrested. The Italian authorities detain him and reveal they have discovered his smuggling scheme. Under immense stress, Luciano falls ill but seemingly recovers. Police tail him to the airport where he is to meet with a filmmaker writing a screenplay about his life, but he suffers a fatal heart attack and dies.
Style
Like Rosi's previous film The Mattei Affair, the film is presented in a docudrama style representing Rosi's notion of cine-inchieste (film investigation), avoiding the personal aspects of the biopic or gangster genre and focusing on the researched facts of Luciano's life and activities, and their broader implications.[7][8]
Cast
- Gian Maria Volonté as Charles “Lucky” Luciano
- Charles Siragusa as himself, a U.S. narcotics agent
- Rod Steiger as Gene Giannini
- Edmond O'Brien as Harry J. Anslinger
- Vincent Gardenia as Colonel Poletti
- Silverio Blasi as Italian Commissario
- Larry Gates as Judge Herlands
- Magda Konopka as Contessa
- Dino Curcio as Don Ciccio
- Karin Petersen as Igea Lissoni
- Jacques Monod as French Commissioner
- Luigi Infantino as opera singer
- Carlo Mazzarella as radio journalist
- John Francis Lane as reporter in Naples
- P. M. Pasinetti as the narrator[9]
Source:[5]
See also
References
- ^ Vivarelli, Nick (2012-03-21). "Italo screenwriter Tonino Guerra dies". Variety. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
- ^ "Jerome Chodorov – Screenwriter". mubi.com. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
- ^ "Lucky Luciano - Cast, Reviews, Summary, and Awards - AllRovi". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2011-06-04.
- ^ "Lucky Luciano". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
- ^ a b "LUCKY LUCIANO (1973)". BFI. Archived from the original on April 1, 2016. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
- ^ "Cannes Classics 2013 line-up unveiled". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
- ^ "The Forgotten: Francesco Rosi's "Lucky Luciano" (1973)". MUBI. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
- ^ Cinescope (2015-06-09). "Viewing Diary: Lucky Luciano (Francesco Rosi, 1973)". Retrieved 2021-02-05.
- JSTOR 43450092.
External links
- Lucky Luciano at IMDb