VIOLENT CITY (1970)

MORGAN'S RATING

COMING SOON

After getting out of jail in the Antilles, Jeff Heston returns to New Orleans and his beautiful girlfriend Vanessa. The sharpshooting killer soon becomes embroiled in trouble, however, when Weber, the head of an organized crime family, pressures Jeff into coming back into the fold. Weber has a nombshell surprise for Jeff -- Vanessa is now his mob trophy wife. When Jeff diescovers his girlfriend has double-crossed him, he gets very angry. And now the mob has become the target.

Charles Bronson (Jeff Heston), Jill Ireland (Vanessa Sheldon), Michel Constantin (Killian), Telly Savalas (Weber), Umberto Orsini (Steve), George Savalas (Shapiro), Ray Saunders (Prisoner), Benjamin Levy (Jeff's Mate), Peter Dane (Television Host), Goffredo Unger (Killer in fist scene).

FACTS

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

RELEASE DATE: 1974 (USA)

DIRECTOR: Sergio Sollima. WRITERS: Massimo De Rita, Arduino Maiuri, Sauro Scavolini, Sergio Sollima and Lina Wertmuller. PRODUCER: Arrigo Colombo. ORIGINAL MUSIC: Ennio Morricone. DISTRIBUTOR: United Artists.

CRITICAL COMMENTS

"Predictably violent...some good photography and story surprises are the high points; bad acting and an overriding sense of gratuitousness eventually do the picture in..." -- Glenn Martin Erickson, DVD Savant