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Director:
William Asher
Writers:
Joseph Landon (writer)
John McPartland (novel)
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Release Date:
2 March 1964 (Denmark) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Tagline:
Headline-Hot! The Terror Behind Cosa-Nostra-Brotherhood of Crime! more
Plot:
Colini, an exiled American gangster living in Sicily, rescues Giordano, a young Sicilian outlaw, from the police... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
taut, slick, anomic, infected world of death 'morte' more (10 total)

Cast

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Henry Silva ... Johnny Cool / Salvatore Giordano

Elizabeth Montgomery ... Darien 'Dare' Guiness

Richard Anderson ... Correspondent
Jim Backus ... Louis Murphy

Joey Bishop ... Holmes, Used Car Salesman
Brad Dexter ... Lennart Crandall
Wanda Hendrix ... Miss Connolly
Hank Henry ... Larry, Bus Driver
Marc Lawrence ... Johnny Colini
John McGiver ... Oscar B. 'Oby' Hinds
Gregory Morton ... Jerry March
Mort Sahl ... Ben Morrow

Telly Savalas ... Vincenzo 'Vince' Santangelo
Joan Staley ... Suzy

Sammy Davis Jr. ... Educated
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Runtime:
103 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Norway:(Banned) (1964) | Sweden:(Banned) (1963) | Finland:(Banned) (1963-1964) | Finland:K-16 | West Germany:16 | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:PG (Ontario)
Filming Locations:
Newport Beach, California, USA
Company:
Chrislaw Productions more

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Factual errors: In the second half of the film, after Darien abandons her car in front of the beauty parlor, the police show up. The police later describe it as being a "1961 Ford". It is in fact a 1962 Ford (Galaxie 500 Sunliner). more

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12 out of 12 people found the following comment useful.
taut, slick, anomic, infected world of death 'morte', 8 May 2004
Author: bill engleson from British Columbia

Johnny Cool moves along at a bloody and violent pace. The bad guys are complex and heroic deeds few and far between. Dare's self-revelation about the innocence of her 'dolce vita' friends and the corruption and the prevalence of the underworld is almost understated. 40 years since the film was made, it still intoxicatingly drags the viewer back to a simpler albeit vicious time. The acting is almost uniformly true. Henry Silva is powerful and Elizabeth Montgomery is as sexy as the times would allow.It has some funny moments including Joey Bishop as a very verbal used car salesman

The murders are mostly quick and effective. Some are sloppy and brutal the way you know they must be in real life.

Every moment of this film is a hard little gem. Why films like this are so elusive escapes me.

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