Tony Arzenta

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox film | name = Tony Arzenta | image = Tony Arzenta poster.jpg | alt = | caption = Italian film poster | director = [[Duccio Tessari]] | producer = {{plainlist| * [[Luciano Martino]] * [[Alain Delon]] * [[Raymond Danon]]{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=72}}}} | writer = | screenplay = {{plainlist| * [[Ugo Liberauce]] * [[Franco Verucci]] * [[Roberto Gandus]]{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=72}}}} | story = Franco Verucci | based_on =  | starring = {{plainlist| * Alain Delon * [[Richard Conte]] * [[Carla Gravina]]}} | music = [[Gianni Ferrio]]{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=72}} | cinematography = [[Silvano Ippoliti]]{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=72}} | editing = [[Mario Morra]]{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=72}} | studio = {{plainlist| * Mondial Te.Fe * Adel Productions{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=72}}}} | distributor = [[Titanus]] (Italy) <br> [[Gaumont (company)|Gaumont Distribution]] (France) | released = {{Film date|1973|8|23|France|1973|9|7|Italy|df=y}} | runtime = 113 minutes{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=72}} | country = {{plainlist| * Italy * France{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=72}}}} | language = English<br>Italian | budget = | gross = {{plainlist| * ₤1.946 billion (Italy) * 866,746 admissions (France)<ref>[http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?anno=2&depth=2&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/box-office-alain-delon-c22669761/43&usg=ALkJrhjNWN4LE_7gPMEdFdlPqDN5bewHAw Box office information for film] at Box Office Story</ref>}} }}

'''''Tony Arzenta''''' (internationally released as '''''Big Guns''''' and '''''No Way Out''''') is a 1973 [[Italy|Italian]] [[gangster]]-[[action film]] directed by [[Duccio Tessari]]. The film was commercially successful.<ref>{{cite book|last=Roberto Chiesi|title=Alain Delon|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002}}</ref>

== Plot == {{more plot|date=March 2024}} When [[Milan]]-based mafia hitman Tony Arzenta asks to get out of the business, his bosses decide to kill him as he knows too much, but accidentally kill his wife and child instead. Arzenta embarks on a campaign of revenge.

== Cast == * [[Alain Delon]]: Tony Arzenta * [[Richard Conte]]: Nick Gusto * [[Carla Gravina]]: Sandra * [[Marc Porel]]: Domenico Maggio * [[Roger Hanin]]: Carré * [[Nicoletta Machiavelli]]: Anna Arzenta * [[Lino Troisi]]: Rocco Cutitta * [[Silvano Tranquilli]]: Montani, the Interpol officer * [[Corrado Gaipa]]: Arzenta's Father * [[Umberto Orsini]]: Isnello, Gusto's right-hand man * [[Giancarlo Sbragia]]: Luca Dennino * [[Erika Blanc]]: The prostitute * [[Ettore Manni]]: Gesmundo, the sauna owner * [[Loredana Nusciak]]: Gesmundo's Lover * [[Rosalba Neri]]: Cutitta's Wife * [[Maria Pia Conte]]: Carré's Secretary * [[Anton Diffring]]: Hans Grunwald * [[Alberto Farnese]]: The Man who meets Carré in the nightclub

==Release== ''Tony Arzenta'' was released in France on 23 August 1973.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr/index.php?pk=58734&_ga=1.118935626.2132987703.1420045339|publisher=Bifi.fr|title=Tony Arzenta|accessdate=29 November 2015|language=French}}</ref> The film was released in Italy on 7 September 1973, where it was distributed by [[Titanus]].{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=72}} It grossed a total of 1,945,982,000 [[Italian lira|Italian lire]] on its release.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=72}}

==See also== * [[List of Italian films of 1973]] * [[List of French films of 1973]]

==Footnotes== {{reflist}}

===References=== {{Refbegin}} * {{cite book |last=Curti |first=Roberto |title=Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0786469765 |year=2013 }} {{Refend}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0069013}} * {{TCMDb title|id=485201}}

[[Category:1973 films]] [[Category:1973 Italian films]] [[Category:Films about contract killing]] [[Category:Films directed by Duccio Tessari]] [[Category:Films produced by Alain Delon]] [[Category:Films scored by Gianni Ferrio]] [[Category:Films set in Copenhagen]] [[Category:Films set in Hamburg]] [[Category:Films set in Italy]] [[Category:Italian films about revenge]] [[Category:Mafia films]]