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Citt violenta Violent City, also known as The Family is a 1970 Italian film directed by Sergio Sollima and starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland and Telly Savalas. Set and shot in the city of New Orleans, the film is an urban crime thriller with a plot of hitman revenge.

The film was a commercial hit, and one of Sergio Sollimas more political films, and less successful than the directors earlier Spaghetti Westerns. It was released just as Bronson was emerging from his career as a character actor into a period of stardom as a leading man. That transition was ultimately effected by the success of his later films for United Artists beginning in 1972, and greater fame with Paramounts Death Wish 1974, and during this era Citt violenta received distribution in the United States first by International CoProductions, and later in even wider release by UA, and retitled The Family. By the time of its domestic release, UA edited some eight minutes from the Italian version. Only in recent years has this footage been restored by Anchor Bay Entertainment for DVD issue. In a review of the 2008 DVD release, Slant Magazine singled out the opening car chase sequence for praise, claiming that it almost outdoes those of Bullitt and The French Connection by staging its enginerevving, pedestriandodging antics not on the wide streets of American cities but, rather, the narrow, winding pathways and, in one case, staircases of a Caribbean island.Danish film director, Nicholas Winding Refn has cited Violent City as one his favorite Italian genre films. ........

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