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Rulers of the City Tony (Harry Baer, Fox and His Friends), a debt collector for a small-time Roman boss, dreams of making it big. He meets Rick (Al Cliver, Zombie Flesh Eaters) and decides to back him up in order to screw over an American gangster, called Scarface Manzari (Jack Palance, Batman), who monopolizes all the crime in the city. But Rick is driven by revenge on Manzari because he had treacherously killed his father after a robbery years earlier. An Italian crime classic from Fernando Di Leo (The Boss), Rulers of the City features his trademark violence and action with a strain of dark humour producing one of the filmmaker's most enjoyable slices of Eurocrime. Newly presented in 4K it is available on Blu-ray in the UK for the first time. LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES 2020 4K restoration of the original negative available on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK with both original Italian and English audio options. Uncompressed mono PCM audio Violent City - an archival featurette including interviews with Fernando Di Leo, Al Cliver, editor Amedeo Giomini, and weapons expert Gilberto Galimberti (15 mins) A new interview with Eurocrime authority Mike Malloy on the childhood revenge theme in poliziotteschi (13 mins) Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters by Tino Avelli New and improved English subtitle translation and SDH option for English audio Limited edition booklet with new writing by Francesco Massaccesi Add all our March releases (Hardboiled, The Eel, Je t'aime, je t'aime, and Rulers of the City) to cart to receive 10% off. Discount automatically applied at cart. Ends January 8th. Year: 1976 Country: Italy Cert: 15 Format: Blu-ray Region: ABC RARO010BDLE EAN: 5060974689774 Release date: 24/03/25
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Rulers of the City (1976)
96 min
Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of beating up borrowers who fall behind in their payments. After meeting up with Napoli, another mob enforcer who's just been fired from his job, the two hatch a plan. Together, they will con mob boss Manzari out of a fortune, after which they can retire and live in luxury. Manzari, however, is not about to let them go so easily.