Gambling City (1975)

Original title

La città gioca d'azzardo

Directed by

Sergio Martino

Genre

action film, thriller film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A con artist works confidence tricks in Italy. He gets entangled with a troubled woman and faces off against a wealthy corrupt villain.

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What happens

Gambling City (Italian: La città gioca d'azzardo) is a 1975 Italian poliziotteschi film by Sergio Martino. It stars Luc Merenda, Enrico Maria Salerno, Dayle Haddon and Corrado Pani. Gambling City is one of several European heist films produced in response to the popular success of American films in the genre like The Sting (1973). The film features many of the genre's standard conventions, including a Byronic hero who acts as a social bandit by practicing confidence tricks, the hero's forbidden love with a socially repressed damsel in distress (who may or may not exhibit facets of the femme fatale) and a morally corrupt dandy as villain and the hero's foil. The film was co-written by Martino and Ernesto Gastaldi, and produced by Luciano Martino. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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