''Mister Scarface'' ( it, I padroni della città) is a 1976 '' noir'' -''

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'' film directed by

Fernando Di Leo Fernando Di Leo (11 January 1932 – 2 December 2003) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, script writer. He made 17 films as a director and about 50 scripts from 1964 to 1985. Biography Fernando Di Leo was born on 11 January 1932 in ...

and starring

Jack Palance Jack Palance ( ; born Volodymyr Palahniuk ( uk, Володимир Палагню́к); February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American actor known for playing tough guys and villains. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, all fo ...

Plot

Tony (

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) is a mob loan collector who is 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 (Palance) out of a fortune, but Manzari isn't about to let that happen.

Cast

as Tony *

Al Cliver Pierluigi Conti (better known as Al Cliver) (born 16 July 1951) is a retired Italian actor who is perhaps best known for starring in horror and exploitation films, especially ones by directors Lucio Fulci and Jesús Franco. Career Cliver was ...

as Ric *

as Manzari aka "Mr. Scarface" *

Vittorio Caprioli Vittorio Caprioli (15 August 1921 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990, mostly in French productions. Biography Caprioli was born in Naples. Having graduated fr ...

as Vincenzo Napoli *

Gisela Hahn Gisela Hahn (born ''Gisela Drenkhan''; 13 May 1943) is a German film actress. She has appeared in more than 40 films since 1964. She was born in Briesen. Selected filmography * ''The Merry Wives of Tyrol'' (1964) - Reni * ''In Bed by Eight'' ...

as Clara *

Edmund Purdom Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom (19 December 19241 January 2009) was an English actor, voice artist, and director. He worked first on stage in Britain, performing various works by Shakespeare, then in America on Broadway and in Hollywood, and event ...

as Luigi Cerchio *

Enzo Pulcrano Enzo Pulcrano (born 31 May 1943 in Acerra, Italy, near Naples; died 28 February 1992) was an Italian actor and writer active in the 1970s and known for Rulers of the City (1976), La Banda Vallanzasca (1977) and A Pugni Nudi (1974), in which he re ...

as Peppi *Carmelo Reale (as Roberto Reale) as Luca *

Peter Berling Peter Berling (20 March 1934 – 21 November 2017) was a German actor, film producer and writer. He has worked on several occasions with director Werner Herzog, among them his collaborations with actor Klaus Kinski like ''Aguirre, the Wrath of Go ...

as Valentino

Production

''Mister Scarface'' was the last film produced by Daunia 80 Cinematografica, the independent film company that had financed all of director

Fernando di Leo Fernando Di Leo (11 January 1932 – 2 December 2003) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, script writer. He made 17 films as a director and about 50 scripts from 1964 to 1985. Biography Fernando Di Leo was born on 11 January 1932 in ...

's previous films starting with '' Naked Violence'', with the exception of ''

Shoot First, Die Later ''Shoot First, Die Later'' ( it, Il poliziotto è marcio) is a 1974 Italian poliziottesco-noir film directed by Fernando Di Leo. Di Leo reprises some elements of the novel ''Rogue Cop'' by William P. McGivern. Luc Merenda later starred in two o ...

'' and ''

Kidnap Syndicate ''Kidnap Syndicate'' ( it, La città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori, lit=The City is Shaken: Ruthless Pursuit of the Kidnappers) is a 1975 Italian ''poliziottesco'' film directed by Fernando Di Leo. Even being a minor work in the Di Leo's ...

''. The film was shot at De Paolis in Rome and on location in Rome.

Release

''Mister Scarface'' was distributed theatrically in Italy by Over Seas Film Company on 3 December 1976. It grossed a total of 333,059,400

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domestically. It was later released in West Germany as ''Zwei Supertypen raumen auf'' in Germany on 9 December 1977 with an 88-minute running time. The dialogue is extensively sampled in the track Strong Face by Cestrian.

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* * {{Fernando Di Leo 1976 films 1976 crime films 1970s action thriller films Italian action thriller films Poliziotteschi films Films directed by Fernando Di Leo West German films Films scored by Luis Bacalov 1970s Italian films