Killer roulette
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Killer roulette |
| Original title | El clan de los inmorales La testa del serpente |
| Country of production | Spain , Italy . Dominican Republic |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | José Gutiérrez Maesso |
| script |
Santiago Moncada Massimo De Rita Eugenio Martín José Gutiérrez Maesso Arduino Mauri |
| production | José Gutiérrez Maesso |
| music | Adolfo Waitzmann |
| camera | Aiace Parolin |
| cut | Angel Serrano |
| occupation | |
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Killer Roulette (original title: El clan de los inmorales in Spain; La testa del serpente in Italy) is a 1974 published poliziotteschi with Helmut Berger and Sydne Rome in the lead roles of the director José Gutiérrez Maesso . The film was also shown under the alternative title The Rattlesnake's Death Bite .
action
Klay Heart is a professional killer with money worries. He would like to start a new life with his girlfriend. But for this he needs money and accepts an order from Mafia boss McLean. Klay is supposed to murder a well-known politician. Klay later realizes that the victim is an old friend. But then this is already killed by another killer. The Mafia boss McLean is angry about the failure of Klay and hires a squad of killers to kill Klay. In his distress, Klay allies himself with Inspector Heart. Together with a group of trained elite police officers, he wants to kill McLean.
background
- Parts of the film were shot in the Dominican Republic .
- The international title is Order to Kill ; the often given Italian title Ordine per uccidere cannot be verified.
criticism
"A lurid gangster film that pushes current problems forward in order to play out sadisms and brutalities."
“Director Maesso consistently lets everyone and everything look like a scheme. ... Helmut Berger handles his role with ease. He does this so well that he saves the streaky gangster film. "
The Italian film critic Roberto Poppi wrote that people first shoot and then think, not just because the characters couldn't do otherwise, but because the director's only interest is to show many violent scenes without paying attention to internal logic or dramaturgy. In the newspaper Il Messaggero it was criticized that the film would have many scenes of violence but little plot.
Web links
- Killer Roulette in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon.it
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry in the Archivio del cinema italiano
- ↑ Killer Roulette. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- Jump up ↑ Terror is directed - the Italian gangster and police film by Michael Cholewa and Karsten Thurau, p. 142, 2nd edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-931608-91-0
- ^ Poppi, in the Corriere della Sera , April 23, 1975
- ↑ http://www.pollanetsquad.it/film.asp?PollNum=136 Vice, in Il Messaggero , September 7, 1974