What is Machine Gun McCain / High Crime about?

MACHINE GUN MCCAIN (GLI INTOCCABILI), 1968, Sony Repertory, 94 min. Dir. Giuliano Montaldo. John Cassavetes is pitch-perfect as McCain, a lone wolf ex-con who helps his son rip off former mob comrades Peter Falk and Gabriele Ferzetti. Things go wrong, and the gangsters hunt him down. On the run, McCain brings along his girl (Britt Ekland) and enlists the help of his devoted ex-wife (Gena Rowlands), two choices that contribute to his downfall in this violently riveting Italian/American co-production. HIGH CRIME, 1973, 100 min. Franco Nero is an obsessed police commissioner frustrated with superior James Whitmore’s slow, methodical accumulation of evidence against a vast European drug ring. Nero goes on a violent trek through the underworld connecting the dots, confronting ailing, old school mob boss, Fernando Rey (THE FRENCH CONNECTION) and untouchable rich importer Silvano Tranquilli.

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What is Machine Gun McCain / High Crime about?: MACHINE GUN MCCAIN (GLI INTOCCABILI), 1968, Sony Repertory, 94 min. Dir. Giuliano Montaldo. John Cassavetes is pitch-perfect as McCain, a lone wolf ex-con who helps his son rip off former mob comrades Peter Falk and Gabriele Ferzetti. Things go wrong, and the gangsters hunt him down. On the run, McCain brings along his girl (Britt Ekland) and enlists the help of his devoted ex-wife (Gena Rowlands), two choices that contribute to his downfall in this violently riveting Italian/American co-production.

HIGH CRIME, 1973, 100 min. Franco Nero is an obsessed police commissioner frustrated with superior James Whitmore’s slow, methodical accumulation of evidence against a vast European drug ring. Nero goes on a violent trek through the underworld connecting the dots, confronting ailing, old school mob boss, Fernando Rey (THE FRENCH CONNECTION) and untouchable rich importer Silvano Tranquilli.