{"id":3377,"date":"2014-03-14T17:49:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T17:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2014-03-14T17:49:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T17:49:15","slug":"il-caso-pisciotta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/reviews\/il-caso-pisciotta\/","title":{"rendered":"Il caso Pisciotta"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Il<\/a>
Il caso Pisciotta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Italy
\n1973
\nDirector: Eriprando Visconti
\nCast: Duilio Del Prete, Carla Gravina, Tony Musante, Marcella Michelangeli.
\nRunning time: 98′ min.<\/p>\n

Here’s another film to deal with the fallout of the controversial murder of Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano, a kind of unofficial sequel to Francesco Rosi’s acclaimed Salvatore Giuliano<\/strong>, made a decade earlier. It starts as that film ended, with the murder of Salvatore Pisciotta – Giuliano’s right hand man, confidant and quite possibly killer – poisoned by a doctored cup of coffee in a Palermo jail. Idealogical young magistrate Tony Musante is called in to investigate, and despite the advice of both family and friends he refuses to drop the case, eventually settling on a powerful Mafia don (Nino Terzo) as his main suspect.<\/p>\n

But the Mafia grows increasingly anxious about his investigations, and resolve that they should do all they can to ensure that the killer remains unpunished. It’s a decent enough film, although not as powerful as Damiano Damiani’s similarly themed L’istruttoria \u00e8 chiusa: dimentichi<\/strong>. There’s an excessive amount of dialogue and some rather stilted sequences around Musante and his family \/ girlfriend. But the cinematography and editing are good and Eriprando Visconti – a weird filmmaker who started out as an art-house darling before making increasingly trashy films throughout the seventies – directs it all capably enough. Not bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s another film to deal with the fallout of the controversial murder of Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano, directed by Eriprando Visconti and starring Tony Musante<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1159,1160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3793,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions\/3793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}