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Folco Lulli helmed one film during his 25-year career as an actor, writer and producer. A homegrown Italian mafia thriller, "Gente d'onore" (1967) translates as "Honorable Men," but the title more often given this movie is "Death Walked With Them." Indeed, this gritty saga about six, unsavory, wanted mafia soldiers sought by the Sicilian Police as well as grieving wives and girlfriends. Lulli co-scripted this above-average, crime-does-not-pay melodrama with "Any Gun Can Play" writer Tito Carpi and "Trittico di Antonello" scribe Francesco Crescimone. The authorities want these fleeing ruffians for questioning in hopes that they can obtain information about their mob bosses. If ever a movie could be classified as 'a journey of hardship, "Gent d'onore" qualifies as one. A local mob boss arranges for six mafia gunmen to be smuggled out of Sicily. Tragically, only one character survives in this tale of intrigue and treachery, but not surprisingly it is the director himself who cast himself as the guide designated to usher the six to safety off the island to an awaiting ship. During this journey of hardship, the six gunmen find themselves at the mercy of each other as well as innocent bystanders-grieving wives and jealous girlfriends-and this 89-minute epic gradually whittles the mafia gunmen down. Some die due to complications involved with their passage through a forbidding, inhospitable landscape with the authorities hot on their trail. The surprise ending bolsters this slowly paced but well photographed yarn. Nothing appears to have been lensed in the studio and Lulli resists the urge to orchestrate activity in a studio. Piero Lulli-not related to Folco-is probably the best known of the gunmen on the lam.