Palme d'Or |
John Cassavetes is supremely cool as the protagonist of this glittery 60s crime flick. Directed with gusto by Giuliano Montaldo, it has Cassavetes as the tough title character, an armed robber getting out of prison after a dozen year stretch.
Choppy storyline. Fun old school car chase.
I don't mean to dismiss the rest of the actors in the semi-generic heist tale. Falk is fine, doing what he always does; Gena Rowlands is underused (but poignant) in a small role; and the rest of the supporting cast is professional and polished.
Rolling up his sleeves once more after his critically-acclaimed independent production 'Faces' had done predictably only modest business in cinemas, John Cassavetes went back to work with this flashily downbeat Italian heist thriller in the vein of 'The Asphalt Jungle' enlivened by Las Vegas location work (with the usual dodgy dubbing and big wobbly close-ups of an Italian film of the era) and by the presence of his future 'Husbands' co-star Peter Falk and by a late guest appearance by Mrs Cassavetes. (Curiously enough Cassavetes don't actually share any scenes with Falk, whose role is effectively a sub-plot.
Many very good actors gathered here in one place, the best by far being the one and only Gena Rowlands, who appears very little. But we have many others: John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, Gabriele Ferzetti, Salvo Randone, Florinda Bolkan.
I caught this on TCM the other morning. I had seen it years ago, and it was about as bad as I remembered.
An ex-con with explosives experience gets back into the swing of things when he lines up a job to rob a Mafia run casino in Las Vegas. With John Cassavetes in the lead one would think this film would be more available than merely catching it by luck on TCM on their midnight Underground Cinema showcase.
This mobster film titled ¨Gli Intoccabili¨ or ¨Machine Gun McCain¨ (1969) talks about a just-released gangster called Hank McCain played by John Cassavetes who is pitch-perfect and Britt Ekland has a big part in this suspenseful movie . As a tough criminal called Hank (John Cassavetes) goes out from prison (it was shot at San Quentin Prison without permits) , being received by his son .
Tough criminal Hank McCain (superbly essayed with simmering hard-boiled intensity by John Cassavetes) gets released from prison after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Hank hooks up with his wormy small-time son Jack (an effectively sniveling turn by Pierluigi Apra), who has devised a daring plan to rob a Las Vegas casino.
