Basically this over acted Italian crime film is about a
couple towing a caravan through a desert type location made to look like
Northern California, but actually filmed in the mountains of the Gran Sasso
around the city of L’Aquila in central Italy, who get taken hostage by a
sadistic escapee from an institution for the criminally insane.
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| Franco Nero. |
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| David Hess. |
Walter Mancini (Nero) is a washed-up alcoholic writer
traveling with his wife, Eve (Corinne Clery), whom suffers at his hands from
abuse and humiliation. But, when they pick up a seemingly stranded motorist
named Adam (Hess), their trip takes an unexpected turn for the worse. Adam, a
deranged and murderous fugitive, orders them to drive him to Mexico, tying up
Walter and torturing him for fun and raping Eve. Pursued by Adam's former
partners, from whom he has stolen two million dollars, the trio journey through
the desert as each plots their escape from one another.
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| Corinne Clery. |
The movie is based on Peter Kane’s novel The Violence and the Fury and is
directed by Italian screenwriter and novelist Pasquale Festa Campanile. It
stars Franco Nero an actor best known for his role of Django in Sergio Corbucci’s 1966
Spaghetti Western of the same name, the French actress Corinne Clery who had
the lead in Story of O in 1975 and
American actor David Hess. The film
score also has a spaghetti western connection in that Ennio Morricone wrote the
rather attractive score. A movie that
will not be to everyone’s taste with its graphic rape scene and bouts of
violence but I thinking given the right frame of mind you may find it a
enjoyable diversion.
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