Bandits in Milan (Italian: Banditi a Milano; also known as The Violent Four) is a 1968 Italian crime film directed by Carlo Lizzani. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. It is the debut film of Agostina Belli. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."
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Production
Like director Carlo Lizzani's previous film Wake Up and Die is based on a real life event, specifically a bank robbery that went wrong in Milan on 25 September 1967.
Cast
Gian Maria Volonté as Piero Cavallero
Tomas Milian as Commissario Basevi
Don Backy as Sante Notarnicola
Ray Lovelock as Donato 'Tuccio' Lopez
Ezio Sancrotti as Adriano Rovoletto 'Bartolini'
Piero Mazzarella as Piva
Laura Solari as Tuccio's Mother
Peter Martell as The Protector
Margaret Lee as Prostitute
Carla Gravina as Anna
Luigi Rossetti as Robber
María Rosa Sclauzero as Piero's Secretary
Ida Meda as Moglie di Piero
Tota Ruta as Club Hitman
Evi Rossi Scotti
Gianni Bortolotti
Agostina Belli as Ragazza in ostaggio
Pupo De Luca as Uomo della 1100
Release
Bandits in Milan was released on 30 March 1968. It grossed just over ₤1.768 million in Italy.
As of 2013, the film has never been released on home video.