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Cinema Smorgasbord – Wild in the Streets – Bloody Payroll (aka Violent Milan) (1976)

Cinema Smorgasbord, Podcasts on September 22, 2025 0Comments 0Likes

Two gang members pull a double cross on Claudio Cassinelli’s Raul Montalbani after a bank robbery in Mario Caiano’s occasionally spirited 1976 film BLOODY PAYROLL (aka VIOLENT MILAN). BIG MISTAKE! Cassinelli spends most of the film tracking them down to get a little revenge, helped by the sympathetic sex worker Leila. It’s bookended by some terrific action (especially the car and motorcycle chases in the first thirty minutes, but then settles down into some Noir-ish score settling buoyed by a terrific, jazzy soundtrack. But what did we think? CHECK IT OUT!

Cinema Smorgasbord – Wild in the Streets – Rabid Dogs (aka Kidnapped) (1974)

Cinema Smorgasbord, Podcasts on July 22, 2024 0Comments 0Likes

In 1974 Mario Bava was struggling after a series of financial failures and decided to turn towards a genre completely new to him: Poliziotteschi! Adapting a crime story by Michael J. Carroll, he was almost finished filming when the producer filed for bankruptcy, leaving the film to sit on a shelf for twenty years (well after Bava’s death in 1980). On this episode of WILD IN THE STREETS we take a look at the revived film RABID DOGS, which exists in FIVE different versions – most notably an unfinished workprint version and a re-edited version with new sequences filmed by Lamberto Bava retitled KIDNAPPED! Was it worth the wait, or should these dogs be put down? LISTEN AND FIND OUT!