![]() ![]() As a curio, there was an “inspector Tarantino” around. MOVIE CONTRABAND CRACKItalian police can’t do shit when several dons are gunned down in front of dozens of witnesses by the same unmasked hitman, but have no compunctions about launching a city-wide raid to crack on cigarette smuggling and cripple Naples’ main economy, if not Italy’s. ![]() Instances of South-European police incompetence Holy shit, Luca, just agree to whatever the guy is asking and hang up! Isn’t that what you end up doing? Luca’s wife is kidnapped in order to force him to join the drug operation when Luca refuses by phone, the Marsigliese orders his guys to beat the woman, then to rape her, then to sodomize her, and the powerless Luca keeps listening and screaming “no! no!” while the torture goes on. I’m not sure which one of the two elicited the excited goading from the boss. The henchman, who has a Larry-from-The-Three-Stooges hairdo, looks certifiably scared while the woman smothers him with her gigantic breasts. There’s a crime boss so jaded with the usual pleasures of the flesh that, after taunting one of his goons about his dubious sexual inclination, orders his blond mistress to fuck the guy while he and his black mistress watch. During a nightclub scene, the stroboscopic lights give us some quick glimpses of various intimate female parts, which likely resulted in the damage of thousands of VHS players through Italy when folks freeze-framed their rented copies in the days before Internet porn. How do I know? Because there is a pointless shot of her hand reaching for it. The mule lady uses her vagina to carry a dildo-shaped vessel containing drugs. Superfluous displays of Mediterranean misogyny MOVIE CONTRABAND SKINFor most Catholics that would mean a ticket straight to heaven, but I’d venture that he was thinking of some soiled skin mag he eyed the night before. Not sadistic enough but worthy of mention is the guy executed in front of his entire parish, only seconds after gobbling down the sacred body of Our Lord Jesus Christ. ![]() She gets half of her face roasted with a Bunsen burner, and while her flesh darkens and peels off, the Marsigliese leers with barely repressed pleasure. Luca stabs some dude in the heart and twists the blade while questioning him, but top honors have to go to the liaison woman who tries to pass a shipment of very diluted heroin to the Marsigliese. Two hundred thousand people! The racket is so ingrained that even Catholic nuns transport the goods in mission vans. There is the expected abundance of bushy mustaches, and some guy that gets grabbed while eating spaghetti and takes the plate along to jail. We are informed several times of the “fact” that the contraband of cigarettes feeds the mouths of about 200,000 Neapolitans, though it is unclear whether the merchandise goes on its way to the rest of Italy and Europe or stays in Naples to supply the local demand: in one scene, we see a dilapidated alley with no less than three guys selling packs of Malboros. MOVIE CONTRABAND MOVIEGiven Contraband’s classy qualities, that is taking a step up in the movie gangster ladder and falling a dozen in the actor ladder… Anyway, during his varied career Bozzuffi had the privilege of working for directors like Jean-Pierre Melville and Michelangelo Antonioni. Not American, but the late Marcel Bozzuffi, whom you may remember as the ruthless hitman of The French connection, plays “The Marsigliese”, head of the drug-trafficking ring. Will the Naples underworld go for it?ī-list American actors / have-beens earning a fast paycheck Their luck changes when several of the racket’s bosses are murdered by an evil gang of French heroin peddlers, who want to use the boats to pass something other than harmless tobacco. Luca (Fabio Testi) and his pals are a bunch of honest, hard-working cigarette smugglers whose biggest concern is evading the cops in their dashing wood motorboats. Subtitled or no, could you explain the plot? The copy I watched patched up some missing bits with an unbelievably awful English dub, which added some unintended, welcomed comedy. I found a pack on several Scando languages, so that’s a no. ![]()
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