Fango bollente

1975 [ITALIAN]

Action / Crime

3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 629 629

violence italy turin sociopath anarchy turin italy

Director

Vittorio Salerno Photo
Vittorio Salerno

Top cast

Ada Pometti Photo
Ada Pometti as Raped girl
Gianni Franco Photo
Gianni Franco as Research Center Worker
Salvatore Billa Photo
Salvatore Billa as Police Officer
Marino Cenna Photo
Marino Cenna as Policeman
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779.57 MB
1280*682
Italian 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
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1.41 GB
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Italian 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Coventry 8 / 10

Blood-red Italian Clockwork!

How to describe "Fango Bollente" accurately? It's Italians doing what Italians do best, namely copying the rudimentary idea of a successful cinema hit and make their own version that is less polished but much more violent & fast-paced. In this case, the plot is clearly inspired by "A Clockwork Orange" but without the dystopian future setting or the experimental reformations. So, basically, it's a story about privileged and spoiled brats committing random acts of extreme violence for no reason other than kicks. The Italian cult cinema era brought forward several films like these, and they are all fabulous! Next to "The Three Savages", there's also "Violence for Kicks", "Naked Violence" and " Young, Violent, Dangerous", and "The Children of Violent Rome".Ovidio, Giacomo and Peppa work in different departments of a large multinational, but after working hours they come together to let off steam in unusual ways. It starts out playful, with causing riots in a football stadium (although there is nevertheless a fatality) and stealing vehicles for joyrides, but their wild nights soon end with brutal murders and rapes. The police are looking for the culprits in all the wrong places, and only the experienced but degraded Inspector Santagà is on their trail.As righteously pointed out by many other reviewers already, "Three Savages" distinguishes itself through uncompromising and downright brutal violence. The murder of the prostitute and her pimp are merciless, and especially the attack on the wife of a politician is unimaginably shocking and sick. What I also admired about Ernesto Gastaldi and Vittorio Salerno's script is how they still give an interesting and believable background to the three delinquents. Peppe is going crazy at home because of all the family members living in the house, Giacomo is on the run from arguing neighbors & a strict landlady, and Ovidio is frustrated that his wife has a much more successful career than he does. Great movie, a must for Italian cult hunters!
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Reviewed by derek-duerden 6 / 10

Surprisingly Brutal...

... and it doesn't hang around. Very shortly after the beginning of the film the guys start disrupting things, and it just escalates from there.

It's hard to imagine that this *wasn't* influenced by A Clockwork Orange but to some degree this is more plausibly "close to real society".

For computer buffs, there's also some great footage of the IBM 370 model 158 mainframe - Joe Dallesandro plausibly using a card reader to load up the detective's fake "lottery program", and wielding a light pen - 40 years before the launch of the Apple Pencil!

Not all of it works, and Joe really struggles to look normal at times, but once you buy into the idea that the Italian police really *are* that incompetent, it's well done.

Worth a look.

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