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Hands Over The City (1963)

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Reviews Counted:23

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Rotten:9

Average Rating:3.4/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Rod Steiger gives a tour-de-force performance as a Machiavellian developer in this underappreciated early 1960s gem from Italian director Francesco Rosi. A scathing exposé of city politics and real... Rod Steiger gives a tour-de-force performance as a Machiavellian developer in this underappreciated early 1960s gem from Italian director Francesco Rosi. A scathing exposé of city politics and real estate, the vibrantly realistic film looks at the City Council plotting, greed, and inept development that severely damaged Naples; it was awarded the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1963. [More]

Starring: Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti

Starring: Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti

Director: Francesco Rosi

Director: Francesco Rosi
Screenwriter: Francesco Rosi, Raffaele La Capria
Composer: Piero Piccioni

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Christopher Long
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Rosi's primary concern is exposing the true mechanisms of power

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11/25/06
James Kendrick
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A strikingly visual black-and-white film that's noisily dialectic, focusing on arguments by both the right-wing pro-development majority and the Communist minority.

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The walls of urban corruption come tumbling down under Rosi's muckraking gaze.

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