ROME – Fernando Di Leo, the late Italian exploitation-pic maestro exhumed from oblivion after Quentin Tarantino started citing his works as inspiration, is getting a first remake with plans underway ...

Fernando Di Leo (11 January 1932 – 2 December 2003) was an Italian film director and script writer. He made 17 films as a director and about 50 scripts from 1964 to 1985. Fernando Di Leo was born on ...

Dir. Fernando Di Leo, 1972, 102 min, DCP Back on the streets after a stint in the slammer, laconic gangster Ugo (The Conformist 's Gastone Moschin) is targeted for harassment by Rocco (an explosive ...

In the 1970’s, the Italian cinema went through something of a late-stage renascence. Masters like Vittorio De Sica were still working, but you had new blood like Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo ...

Italian director Fernando Di Leo is best known for his violent poliziotteschi, or crime films, like Caliber 9, The Italian Connection, The Boss, and Kidnap Syndicate, to name a few. However, like the ...

Grades: Caliber 9: B+; The Italian Connection: B+; The Boss: B; Rulers Of The City: B- During Italian cinema’s boom years of the ’60s and ’70s, producers specialized in cranking out action films that ...

ROME – Fernando Di Leo, the late Italian exploitation-pic maestro exhumed from oblivion after Quentin Tarantino started citing his works as inspiration, is getting a first remake with plans underway ...