Contraband

Contraband (1980)

Luca il contrabbandiere

Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler.

Date of release
1980-08-08
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (55)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Crime, Action
Director
Lucio Fulci

Casting

Interesting facts

Contraband is a 1980 poliziotteschi film directed by Lucio Fulci.

Production

Lucio Fulci and Giorgio Mariuzzo co-wrote the script for Contraband based on an original story by Ettore Sanzò and Gianni De Chiara with a working title of Il contrabbandiere / Violenza. Mariuzzo has stated that the story initially started with producer Sandro Infascelli. However, he found out that the story did not work and called in Mariuzzo to re-shape it. Mariuzzo re-structured the script to change its pace and added more scenes of violence.

Filming of Contraband begun on 3 December 1979. The film was shot for 11 weeks within the De Paolis Studios in Rome and in Naples. Within the first two weeks of filming at De Paolis Studios the production had run out of money. Moving the production to Naples, local smugglers lent themselves to the production of the film as extras and let the crew use their motorboats for some scenes.

Contraband was director Lucio Fulci's only crime film. The film is a poliziesco, Contraband also adopts the form of a splatter film that would be appearing in other Italian horror films of the era.

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