{{Short description|1968 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}} {{Infobox film | name = Bandits in Milan | image = TheViolentFour-Poster.jpg | caption = Film poster under alternative English title | native_name = Banditi a Milano | director = Carlo Lizzani | producer = Dino De Laurentiis<ref name="Curti11">Curti, 2013. p. 11</ref> | screenplay = {{plainlist| * Massimo De Rita * Dino Maiuri * Carlo Lizzanii<ref name="Curti11" />}} | story = Carlo Lizzani<ref name="Curti11" /> | based_on = <!-- {{based on|title of the original work|writer of the original work}} --> | starring = {{plainlist| * Gian Maria Volonté * Don Backy * Ray Lovelock * Margaret Lee * Tomas Milian }} | music = Riz Ortolani<ref name="Curti11" /> | cinematography = Giuseppe Ruzzolini<ref name="Curti11" /> | editing = Franco Fraticelli<ref name="Curti11" /> | studio = Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica | distributor = Paramount Pictures<ref name="Curti11" /> | released = {{film date|df=yes|1968|03|30|}} | runtime = 98 minutes | country = Italy<ref name="Curti11" /> | language = | budget = | gross = ₤1.768 billion }}
'''''Bandits in Milan''''' ({{langx|it|'''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,<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2692/year/1968.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Bandits in Milan |access-date=4 April 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cannes-fest.com/an1968.htm|title=1968 - On the beach, pavers|access-date=10 December 2013|archive-date=8 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191108225157/http://www.cannes-fest.com/an1968.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> It is the debut film of Agostina Belli.<ref name=bfb>{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano, Le Attrici|year=2003|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=888440214X}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=April 2015}} 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."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera|url=https://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/08_febbraio_28/elenco_cento_film_d83cacd8-e5ce-11dc-ab61-0003ba99c667.shtml|access-date=2021-03-11|website=www.corriere.it}}</ref>
==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.<ref name="Curti11" />
==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.<ref name="Curti11" /> It grossed just over ₤1.768 million in Italy.<ref name="Curti11" /> As of 2013, the film has never been released on home video.<ref name="Curti11" />
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===References=== * {{cite book|last=Curti|first=Roberto|title=Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0786469765|year=2013}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0062707|title=Bandits in Milan}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bandits In Milan}} Category:1968 films Category:1968 crime films Category:1968 Italian-language films Category:Films set in 1967 Category:Films directed by Carlo Lizzani Category:Films set in Milan Category:Police detective films Category:Poliziotteschi films Category:Films scored by Riz Ortolani Category:Films produced by Dino De Laurentiis Category:1968 Italian films
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