Defeat of the Mafia (1970)
Scacco alla mafia
At the Rome airport two men are taken into custody. Inspector Scott Luce thinks their two suit-cases are full of drugs, but the suit-cases contains only white powder. Afterwards the corpse of Susan Palmer is found. She was a drug runner for the Cosa Nostra boss Frankie Agostino. Susan's friend, Jenny Ryan, meets a mysterious man from America, Arthur Ardigan, supposedly her cousin. In the meantime Inspector Luce is investigating.
- Date of release
- 1970-11-20
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Crime
- Director
- Warren Kiefer
Casting
- Victor Spinetti — Charles Agostino
- Maria Pia Conte — Jenny Ryan
- Pier Paolo Capponi — Scott Luce
- Luciano Pigozzi — Frankie Agostino (as Alan Collins)
- Néstor Garay — Jon Dahlia
- Micaela Pignatelli — Marjorie Mills
- Carmen Scarpitta — Countess Torreguardia
- Paolo Giusti — Niki Velour
- Margarita Puratich — Susan Palmer
- Luigi Bonos — Giulio
- Enzo Fiermonte — Count Torreguardia
- Mario Guizzardi — Colonel Ruggiero
Interesting facts
Defeat of the Mafia is an Italian noir-crime film directed by Warren Kiefer and starring Victor Spinetti and Maria Pia Conte. It was shot in the late 1968 but released only in November 1970. It was initially planned to be an Italian-Argentine co-production.
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