The inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s early films, Fernando Di Leo is the master of garish, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters who perfects the genre with an uncanny accuracy. For the first time digitally restored and remastered in collaboration with the Venice Film Festival, 4 of Fernando Di Leo’s masterpieces in one box set. Includes CALIBER 9, THE ITALIAN CONNECTION, THE BOSS, and RULERS OF THE CITY.
NTSC All Region
4 DVD Boxset
Italian and English with English subtitles
Documentaries, Photo Galleries and More
Widescreen 1.85:1 / Full Screen 1.33:1
Disc 1
Caliber 9
SYNOPSIS:
In the first film of the Trilogy, smalltime gangster Ugo Piazza has just been released from prison. He tries to convince the police, the mafia, and his one-time associate Rocco, a sadistic hoodlum who enjoys sick violence and torture, that he wants to go straight, but everyone believes he has $300,000 of stolen money hidden somewhere.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
-Documentary on Calibro 9
-Documentary on Fernando Di Leo: La morale del genere
-Documentary Scerbanenco noir
-Photo Gallery with audio commentary by Gastone Moschin
-Director biography and filmography
-New and improved English subtitles
Disc 2
The Italian Connection
SYNOPSIS:
The second film in Fernando Di Leo’s Milieu Trilogy focuses on Luca Carnali, a small-time mobster and pimp who has been set up by his gangland boss. When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, Carnali is framed for the theft. Carnali is pursued through Milan by a pair of merciless American hit men.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
-Documentary Alle origini della Mala
-Photo Gallery
-Director biography and filmography
-New and improved English subtitles
Disc 3
The Boss
SYNOPSIS:
Based largely on real people and actual events, Fernando Di Leo’s action-packed film, the final part of his Milieu Trilogy is his boldest commentary on corruption and the criminal underworld. A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the members of one mafia family
except for Cocchi. Realizing that the instigator of the bomb attack is Daniello from another mafia family, Cocchi is determined to revenge.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
-Documentary Storie di mafia
-Director biography and filmography
-New and improved English subtitles
DISC 4
Rulers of the City
SYNOPSIS:
The paradox of Rulers of the City is that the rulers are small time crooks and suburban gansters who barely manage to make ends meet, but that’s what makes the film so real and accurate and perhaps why Quentin Tarantino credits I Padroni della Città as the pivotal force behind his decision to be a film maker. In the film Tony is a mob loan collector who’s unsatisfied with his position in life, and constantly dreams of living it rich in Brazil with his brother. To make some quick cash, Tony joins the forces of organized crime, making
his way up the ladder. Together with Napoli, another mob enforcer, Tony hatches a plan to con mob boss Manzari (Jack Palance) out of afortune, but Manzari isn’t about to let that happen.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
-Documentary Città violenta
-Director biography and filmography
-New and improved English subtitles
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