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1/10
They tried to make Rome look like New York and Toronto
17 November 2006
This film was Jeff Cameron's last film. He plays a secondary role, along with a few of Demofilo Fidani's regulars Dino ( Dean Stratford) Strano and Simonetta (Simone Blondel) Vitelli. Fidani set out to make a sequel to "Sedia Elettrica" which was set in the early days of American gangsterism. What Fidani ends up making is rather boring film. A mess, a montage of scenes composed mostly of action sequences that were removed from "Sedia Elettrica" which were fitted in as flash backs with some new scenes to bridge the present with the past. Some of the re-cycled scenes are with Big I Verdi but he's not given any star credit. Jeff Cameron doesn't do much, mostly drives around the back streets of Rome in his beefy Ford Mustang, trying to make it look like New York at dusk. Fidani almost gets away with it too, if it weren't for the painted road lines of the pedestrian crossing. Only in Europe do they have such crossings. The film ends with a series of shot outs that make no sense. Killing after killing, you have no idea whose on whose side. Vendetta upon vendetta, in the end Cameron's character Mike Artesi is crowned the new boss of bosses. Oh, about the Toronto piece I mentioned in the summary, Fidani has a van driving around the construction yards of Rome with Ontario license plates.
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1/10
Terrible, what sometimes is done to cash in on a genre.
16 November 2006
Warning: Spoilers
This film was part of a production package that sprang out in the early 70's, that involved actor Brad Harris's company 3 Star Films. Whether he was directly involved thats unknown. Nevertheless, Semino La Morte... is a re titled film, made up of scene removed and re-edited from 3 Stars Film earlier two western films; "Wanted Sabata" and "Arriva Durango..Paga O Mouri". Roberto Mauri shot a couple new scenes with Brad Harris , Jose Torres and Vassili Karis to fit in the new storyline written around the old footage. This film was originally produced to play in the secondary B markets in Italy. However, I have to admire the way they were able to fit a new storyline using the old complied footage, right down to the gun close-up inserts.
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