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{{Infobox Film film

| name = = Kidnap Syndicate

| image = La-citta-sconvolta-caccia-spietata-ai-rapitori-italian-movie-poster-md.jpg

| image = Kidnap Syndicate.jpg

| alt =

| caption = DVD cover

| director = [[Fernando Di Leo]]

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| writer =

| director = [[Fernando Di Leo]]

| starring = [[Luc Merenda]]<br>[[James Mason]]

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

| music = [[Luis Enriquez Bacalov]]

| screenplay = {{plainlist|*Cesare Manzani

| cinematography = [[Erico Menczer]]

* Fernando Di Leo

| editing =

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

| producer =

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

| distributor =

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| released =

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* [[James Mason]]

| awards =

* [[Luc Merenda]]

| country =

* [[Valentina Cortese]]

| language =

* Irina Maleeva

| budget =

}}

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

'''''La città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori''''' (internationally released as '''''Kidnap Syndicate''''') is a [[List of Italian films of 1975|1975]] [[Cinema of Italy|Italian]] [[poliziottesco]] 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]]" sub-genre.<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>

| 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

| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1975|8|27|Italy}}

| runtime = 110 minutes{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}}

| country = Italy{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}}

| language = =

| budget =

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

}}

'''''Kidnap Syndicate''''' ({{langx|it|La città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori'''''|lit=The (internationallyCity releasedis asShaken: '''''KidnapRuthless Syndicate'''''Pursuit of the Kidnappers}}) is a [[List of Italian films of 1975|1975]] [[Cinema of Italy|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]]" sub-genresubgenre.<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 ==

*[[Luc Merenda]]: as Mario Colella

*[[James Mason]]: Ing.as Engineer Filippini

*[[Valentina Cortese]]: countessas Countess Grazia Filippini

*[[Vittorio Caprioli]]: commissioneras 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

==ReferencesProduction==

The film's story is credited to Galliano Juso, the producer of the film.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}} The film's director [[Fernando Di Leo]] stated that the producer came up with the idea for the film based on kidnappings which he described as "a hot topic back then".{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}} Di Leo stated that the producer would call up the distributors in Italy to tell them the story for the film and if more of them were not interested in the story than were, it would not get made.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}}{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=138}} [[Ernesto Gastaldi]] stated that despite being credited with Cesare Manzani that he himself wrote the script for the film, stating that Juso did come up with the idea for the film but that Di Leo did not write it, stating that the two just discussed the script after it was already completed with Gastaldi making adjustments where Di Leo felt the script was wrong.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=138}} Gastaldi described the film as a "nasty film about nasty times".{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=138}}

{{Reflist}}

The film was shot at Rizzoli Film in Rome and on ___location in Rome and Milan.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}}

==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 profit 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 an "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 ==

===Footnotes===

{{reflist}}

===Sources===

{{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|0072786}}

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