Luca il contrabbandiere (1980)

[Cinema Italiano]

English title: Contraband

Director

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Lucio Fulci - also credited for screenplay

Storyline

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Luca Ajello is an old-fashioned smuggler who sees his brother killed by an organization of new criminals led by "Il Marsigliese". At stake is the new drug market that should supplant the old cigarette smuggling trade. Luca wants revenge, identifies the possible culprit in the boss Sciarrino, but in the end he realizes that the enemy is Perlante, a boss he has always served faithfully, and joins forces with his old rival to fight a fight to the death. The clash is between the new and the old criminality, between a world of criminals who act according to certain values and the bosses of the future who only seek profit ...

Cast

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• Credited
• Uncredited
• Unidentified

[Cinema Italiano]

Credited cast

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Fabio Testi
as Luca Ajello

Ivana Monti
as Adele Ajello

Guido Alberti
as Don Morrone

Enrico Maisto
as Michele Ajello

Daniele Dublino
as Deputy Prosecutor

Giordano Falzoni
as Doctor

Giulio Farnese
as Alfonsino

Fabrizio Jovine
as Financial police chief

Ofelia Meyer
as Ingrid

Ferdinando Murolo
as Sciarrino

Tommaso Palladino
(credited as "Tommaso Paladino")
as Capece

Venantino Venantini
as Tarantino

Ajita Wilson
as Luisa known as "La Napoletana"

Marcel Bozzuffi
as Francois Joaquin known as "Il Marsigliese"

Saverio Marconi
as Luigi Perlante known as "Il Milanese"

Luciano Rossi
as Chemist of "Marsigliese"

Salvatore Billa
(credit only)

Franco Daddi
(credited as "Virgilio Daddi")
as Drug dealer

Romano Puppo
as Henchman of "Marsigliese"

Cintia Lodetti
(credited as "Cinzia Lodetti")
as Urse

Nello Pazzafini
(credited as "Giovanni Pazzafini")
as Sciarrino's henchman, double agent

Rita Frei
as Filomena, Don Morrone's housekeeper

Aldo Massasso
as Murolo

Antonio Mellino
(unidentified)

Omero Capanna
(credited as "Acrobats")
as Henchman of "Marsigliese"

Pino Mattei
(credited as "Acrobats" as "Giuseppe Mattei")
as Henchman of "Il Marsigliese"

[Cinema Italiano]

Uncredited cast

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Enzo D'Ausilio
as Smuggler Boss

Lucio Fulci
as Elderly Smuggler Boss

Salvatore Puccinelli
as Murolo's henchman

Marcello Filotico
as Elderly Smuggler Boss

Luciano Foti
as Forensic policeman

Nazzareno Cardinali
as Sciarrino's henchman

Benito Pacifico
as Francois Joaquin "Il Marsigliese"s henchman

Alfonso Giganti
as Police officer at Perlante's house

Attilio Pelegatti
as Butler of the Perlante House

Quinto Marziali
as Police photographer

Rossella Bergamonti
as Actress in the Western movie watched by Don Morrone

Daniele Vargas
as Actor in the Western movie watched by Don Morrone

Dan Vadis
as Actor in the Western movie watched by Don Morrone

[Cinema Italiano]

Unidentified

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[PeplumParadise]

I think 31 should be Pino Mattei

43 looks like Daniele Vargas, presumably in re-used footage from something

[Cinema Italiano]

I think 31 should be Pino Mattei

43 looks like Daniele Vargas, presumably in re-used footage from something

Thank you very much, Nick, for your identifications Pino Mattei is also credited as acrobat like Giuseppe Mattei. Daniele Vargas only acted in 6 or 7 western movies: I have never seen this one but it seems easy to find out from which movie the scene is taken.

[Cinema Italiano]

The only credited actor that I haven't yet identified is Antonio Mellino. At 06, 32 and 57 it would seem to me the same person. In the black and white photo it is of course him and in the 4th pic is him from 1971 Un posto ideale per uccidere in a scene together with Sal Borgese. (The same Mellino explained his role in this movie in an interview that I can't find anymore) I don't know if you also think that at 06, 32 and 57 is Antonio Mellino.

[carlos]

The movie on TV is Un uomo, un cavallo, una pistola (1967)
21 - Dan Vadis
38 - Rossella Bergamonti (should be in her topic)

[Cinema Italiano]

The movie on TV is Un uomo, un cavallo, una pistola (1967)
21 - Dan Vadis
38 - Rossella Bergamonti (should be in her topic)

Many thanks, Carl, for the valuable and very useful information

[FatmanDan]

Angelo Ragusa in 50 on the left?