| Christopher Mitchum | ... | Ricco Aversi | |
| Barbara Bouchet | ... | Scilla | |
| Malisa Longo | ... | Rosa | |
| Eduardo Fajardo | ... | Cyrano | |
| Manuel Zarzo | ... | Tony | |
| José María Caffarel | ... | The Marsigliese | |
| Ángel Álvarez | ... | Giuseppe Calogero | |
| Arthur Kennedy | ... | Don Vito | |
| Paola Senatore | ... | Concetta Aversi | |
| Luis Induni | ... | Ricco's father | |
| Tomás Blanco | |||
| Víctor Israel | ... | Checana, the nightclub owner | |
| José Canalejas | |||
| Luigi Antonio Guerra | ... | Concetta's husband | |
| Rina Franchetti | ... | Ricco's mother | |
| Goyo Lebrero | |||
| Antonio Mayans | ... | Nightclub bartender (as Juan Antonio Mayans) | |
| Lorenzo Robledo | |||
| Domenico Maggio | |||
| Andrea Scotti | ... | Policeman | |
| Carla Mancini | |||
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Sergio Testori | ... | Don Vito's Assassin (uncredited) | |
Directed by | |||
| Tulio Demicheli | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Mario di Nardo | screenplay | |
| Mario di Nardo | story | |
| José Gutiérrez Maesso | screenplay (as José G. Maesso) | |
| José Gutiérrez Maesso | story (as José G. Maesso) | |
| Santiago Moncada | screenplay | |
| Santiago Moncada | story | |
Produced by | |||
| Edward L. Montoro | .... | executive producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Nando De Luca | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Francisco Fraile | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Ángel Serrano | |||
Production Management | |||
| Faustino Ocaña | .... | production manager | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Félix Fernández | .... | assistant director | |
Other crew | |||
| Olga Moller | .... | script girl | |
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Whoo-hoo, what a film! This film is lots of fun. Of course not in the masterpiece kind of way. Tulio Demicheli's "The Mean Machine" is a pretty bad flick indeedy. But it's such a perfect example of Euro-Trash, that I felt someone had to mention it. First off, it has Christopher Mitchum (where else can an a major actor's son find work? In Italy of course!) giving such a wooden performance, that my roomate mearly rolled his eyes, snickered, and walked out of the room shaking his head (c'mon Tony, you know you did). Christopher with his Dad's droopy eyes just stares off with that same blank expression through out the entire film. Of course he must have known it was a pretty bad script, so I won't fault him too much (I haven't seen his other artistic efforts). But it really cracked me up that on the video box there was this drawing of him looking handsome and muscular, which he definately is not. He was pretty wimpy looking, and evertime he tried to give a macho pose, or flex his authority, I nearly laughed myself silly. Though I excuse all of this, because the real reason I rented this flick was because of the wonderful and beautiful Barbara Bouchet! And this film delivers! She does this great little strip dance in front of these gangsters in a car, right before Chris (Rico the "Mean Machine") throws them into a lake! It's so funny, that Italy will take any oppertunity they can to show off Barbara's attributes. Of course it gratuitous, but it's just too much fun! And of course even after the big ambush, Chris looks to Barbara and she's still has no clothes on. She's having a good time tackling gangsters in the nude! Well, at least Barbara looks to be having fun. Another Euro-babe favourite Malisa Longo (as Chris' ex-girlfriend)also likes to spend her time flirting with Bodygaurds and sitting around in the buff. But unfortunately she meets with a very grizzly end, and becomes the film's sacrificial lamb (what else was gonna come of her character? Chris Mitchum was now with Barbara Bouchet.) in a tub of Acid! This film contains all the unnecessary violence (gory stuff as well), nudity (lots of it), macho posturing (Chris' Ricco is not opposed to giving a lady a smack if she's not behaving), and crummy acting that 70's Italian cinema is so famous for. Would I recommend it? Hardly! Did I laugh my fool head off? Yep! After this review, I'll let the reader make their own call. Barbara Bouchet is amazing!