PISTOLS AND PASTA – An Italian Crime Film Primer ep1

Posted on 22 July 2012

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Please welcome new Night Crew contributor Nate Allen to the fold. Like the rest of us sickos here, Nate grew up obsessed with film, hiding from the light as he watched thousands of hours of every piece of gold and trash he could scrounge up.
The man knows his stuff, and is here to impart his love of Italian cinema to you lucky listeners. if you like extreme action, senseless violence, sweaty gunmen, and out-of-control cops, you’ve come to the right place.

You will want to keep a pen and paper handy, the titles will comes fast and furious in this first installment, as Nate brings a general overview of things this time around, but will meticulously make us all experts in the poliziatteschi sub genre by the time he’s through bashing our heads into all these film canisters of Italian crime flicks laying around. Be sure to watch the trailers below as well, and get a taste of the bloody marinara that slathers the films mentioned this installment.

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MILANO CALIBRO 9

THE ITALIAN CONNECTION

THE BOSS

STREET LAW

THE BIG RACKET

LIVE LIKE A COP…DIE LIKE A MAN

ROME ARMED TO THE TEETH

TORINA VIOLENTA

BEAST WITH A GUN

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