The gang behind the mayhem has been the French outfit the Marsigiliese. the bed has been booby-trapped with a bomb and they are blown to pieces, Perlante narrowly escapes. Playboy Perlante comes back to his flat, his sidekick and chick head to bed to consummate their passion in Perlante's bedroom. ![]() Boss one comes home to find his wheelchair bound wife murdered, as he surveys the scene he is shot in the back.īoss two is celebrating a win at the race track, as he spins round cheering, a pistol is shoved into his mouth and his brains are blown out. Not before a triplet of hits are carried out on the rest of Luca's associates. His enemy shortly reveals his face though. He says that the henchman at the sulphur pits must have been moonlighting for another firm. Scherino reasons "If I killed him, then I'm going to have to kill you now" But he doesn't. It soon becomes clear that Scherino wasn't responsible he admits that there was a 'beef' between them, but he never had him whacked. Later Luca breaks into Scherino's place, in a bid to avenge his brother's death but is overpowered by one of his guards. The smoke emanating from the pits is almost a stylistic preview to the final scene of Fulci's surreal dream-like, horror masterpiece " The Beyond" (1981). Luca chases the guy and after a violent struggle he manages to knock the henchmen into the acidic sulphur pit. ![]() After receiving the info the messenger has his throat cut by one of Scherino's henchmen. Getting out of his car to talk to the officers, he is machine gunned down, by the evidently fake police.įollowing his brother's sea burial in the Bay of Naples, Luca is summoned to the surreal location of the local sulphur pits to meet an old associate who has some information for him regarding the 'whacking' of his older brother. Enraged, he heads towards the stables but is forced to stop at a police roadblock. Later as the brothers are driving, Mickey gets a call on his car phone he is informed that his most prized racehorse has been burned alive in the paddock. The brothers attend a meeting with another Neapolitan mafia boss, the young psychotic playboy Perlante, to discuss their suspicions. Later, as they discuss the arrival of the police that day, the brothers' suspect that Scherino, an old adversary of Mickey's from back-in-the-day, is trying to set them up or move in on their territory. The smuggling gang is headed up by brothers Luca & Mickey Di Angelo. The gang are prepared for such unwelcome attention and in the ensuing chase across the sea, they self-destruct one of their own 'patsy' boats, complete with rubber smuggler dummies! By time the police have realised the ploy the gang have got away, much to the chagrin of the pursuing officers. Just as they finish loading, a police vessel arrives and gives chase. The ambiance is broken as a gang of smugglers set off in high-powered speedboats for a rendezvous at sea to pick up a consignment of contraband cigarettes. For Fulci-philes the scene is reminiscent of 'Don't Torture A Duckling' (1972) as Sergio Salvati's camera sweeps across the sleepy port, the only audible sound the distant tolling of a bell and faint religious wailing. ![]() Shot in the picturesque city of Naples, south western Italy, the film beings as day breaks over the harbour.
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