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| caption = DVD cover

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| director = [[Fernando Di Leo]]

| producer = Galliano Juso{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}}

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* [[Ernesto Gastaldi]]{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}}}}

| story = Galliano Juso{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}}

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| starring = {{plainlist|
* [[LucJames MerendaMason]]

* [[JamesLuc MasonMerenda]]}}

* [[Valentina Cortese]]

* Irina Maleeva

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| music = [[Luis Enriquez Bacalov]]{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}}

| cinematography = [[Erico Menczer]]{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}}

| editing = [[Sergio Montanari]]{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}}

| studio = Cinemaster{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}}

| distributor = Medusa

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| gross = ₤908[[Italian lira|₤]]908,268 million

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'''''Kidnap Syndicate''''' ({{lang-langx|it|La città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori|lit=The City is Shaken: Ruthless Pursuit of the Kidnappers}}) is a 1975 Italian ''[[poliziottesco]]'' film directed by [[Fernando Di Leo]]. Even being a minor work in the Di Leo's filmography, the film gained some critical attention for being an original re-interpretation of the "[[vigilante]]" subgenre.<ref>{{cite book|last=Christian Uva, Michele Picchi|title=Destra e sinistra nel cinema italiano|publisher=Edizioni Interculturali, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Antonio Bruschini, Antonio Tentori|title=Città violente: il cinema poliziesco italiano|publisher=Tarab, 1998}}</ref>

== Plot ==

{{No plot|date=April 2023}}

== Cast ==

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*[[Valentina Cortese]] as Countess Grazia Filippini

*[[Vittorio Caprioli]] as Commissioner Magrini

*[[Irina Maleeva]] as Lina

* [[Marino Masé]] as Pardi

* Marco Liofredi as Fabrizio Colella

* Francesco Impeciati as Antonio Filippini

* [[Renato Baldini]] as Antonio Policriti

* Alessio Juso as Antonio Filippini's Son

==Production==

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==Release==

''Kidnap Syndicate'' was distributed theatrically in Italy by Medusa on 27 August 1975.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}} The film grossed a total of 908,268,910 [[Italian lire]] domestically.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}} Italian film historian Roberto Curti described its proftprofit as a "moderate box office success".{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=138}}

==Reception==

Curti stated that the film was lambasted by Italian film critics.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=138}} [[Claudio G. Fava]] stated in ''[[Corriere Mercantile]]'' that "all the worst defects of the worst of Italian cinema can be found in this minutely banal film"{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=138}} [[Sandro Casazza]] of ''[[La Stampa]]'' declared it as aan "immoral and asocial film (the thread dedicated to the "silent majority" numbers a large number of titles ever since ''[[Straw Dogs (1971 film)|Straw Dogs]]'')."{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=138}}

== References ==

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===Sources===

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

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[[Category:1975 films]]

[[Category:1970s1975 crime drama films]]

[[Category:1970s1975 crime thriller films]]

[[Category:Italian films]]

[[Category:Films directed by Fernando Di Leo]]

[[Category:Poliziotteschi films]]

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[[Category:Films about social class]]

[[Category:Films scored by Luis Bacalov]]

[[Category:HostageFilms dramasabout hostage takings]]

[[Category:Italian crime thriller films]]

[[Category:VigilanteItalian vigilante films]]

[[Category:ScreenplaysFilms with screenplays by Ernesto Gastaldi]]

[[Category:1970s Italian films]]

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