Contraband (1980 film)

Contraband Italian Il contrabbandiere is a 1980 poliziotteschi film directed by Lucio Fulci. The film is set in Naples, where Luca Di Angelo Fabio Testi and his brother Michele use speedboats to smuggle cigarettes and find themselves between two contraband bosses after they lose a load of cigarettes.

Luca Di Angelo Fabio Testi is a smuggler, one member of an organized team trafficking cigarettes and booze up and down the coast off Naples, Italy. After a runin with the police in which the smugglers manage to get away by faking a boat explosion resulting in the police motorboats responding to the false emergency allowing the smugglers to get away, Luca and his brother Mickey suspect Scherino Ferdinand Murolo, the head of a rival gang of smugglers, of passing on their actives. Lucia and Mickey take their accusations to their boss Perlante Saverio Marconi a sleazy playboy withy numerous Mafia connections, who agrees to look into it. After a nighttime fire at Mickeys racing stables kills a valued racehorse, he and Luca drive over to inspect the damage. But on the way, they are stopped at a fake police roadblock where the assassins dressed as policemen trick Mickey into getting out of the car and machinegun him to death over and over again a homage to Sonny Corelones death scene in The Godfather, while Luca barely escapes injury by hiding on the floor of the car.Afterwards, Perlante suggests that Luca leave town for a few days, but he refuses. After his brothers funeral, conducted on the gangs speedboats in the Bay of Naples, with the police surveying them, Luca vows revenge. Despite his wife Adeles Ivana Monti pleas, Luca goes after the prime suspect Scherino. That night, Luca breaks into Scherinos house, but gets spotted and severely beaten up by Scherinos henchmen. However, Scherino spares Lucas life. He tells Luca that he had no part in Mickeys killing. ........

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