Massacre Mafia Style (1974)

Curiosità

• Girato a: Los Angeles e California

Massacre Mafia Style is a 1974 independent film written, directed, produced by, and starring Italian-American crooner-actor Duke Mitchell. The tagline for the film was "You’re IN, or you’re IN THE WAY."

Production

Massacre Mafia Style was filmed on location in Los Angeles. It was edited by Tony Mora and by Emmy-nominated editor Robert Florio (who would also go on to edit on Mitchell's next film Gone with the Pope). Mitchell was said to have been inspired by 1972's The Godfather directed by Francis Ford Coppola and makes a reference to the famous movie in his dialogue, without naming it specifically.

During the 1970s, the poliziotteschi (crime-action) genre in Italy was exploding. However, there were very few American-made mafia films catching fire besides the namesake Godfather film. Mitchell was clearly influenced by Coppola's work (as well as Scorsese’s) and was moved to tell his version of what it’s like to be an Italian-American, using his own nightclub points-of-reference and his bird's-eye-view of those Italian-American businessmen and…

Mitchell's next film, Gone with the Pope was originally shot the next year but was not originally completed when Mitchell died from lung cancer, and remained unfinished until 2009. The film negative and unfinished cut work print were discovered in Mitchell's parking garage several years after his death. It has been edited and restored by cult film distributor Grindhouse Releasing which has also re-released Massacre Mafia Style on Blu-ray and DVD.

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