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{{Infobox film

| name = Kidnap Syndicate

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

| image = Kidnap Syndicate.jpg

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| 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 =

| based on = <!-- {{Based on|title of the original work|creator of the original work|additional creator(s), if necessary}} -->

| released = {{Film date|1975}}

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

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* [[James Mason]]}}

| awards =

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

| country = Italy

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

| language = Italian

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

| budget =

| 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 = Italian

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'''''Kidnap Syndicate''''' ({{lang-it|La città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori'''''|lit=The (internationallyCity releasedis asShaken: '''''KidnapRuthless Pursuit of Syndicate'''''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]]" 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>

== Cast ==

*[[Luc Merenda]]: as Mario Colella

*[[James Mason]]: as Engineer Filippini

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

*[[Vittorio Caprioli]]: as Commissioner Magrini

*[[Irina Maleeva]]: as Lina

* [[Marino Masé]]: as Pardi

==Production==

The films story is credited to Galliano Juso, the producer of the film.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}} The films 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 adjustsments 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}}

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 008,268,910 [[Italian lire]] domestically.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=137}} Italian film historian Roberto Curti described its proft 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 a "immoral and asocial film (the thread dedicated to the "silent majority" numbers a large amount of titles ever since ''[[Straw Dogs]]'')."{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=138}}

== References ==

===Footnotes===

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==References=Sources===

{{ReflistRefbegin}}

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

{{Refend}}

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