Cry Chicago (originally ¡Viva América! and also released as The Mafia Mob, ) is a 1969 Spanish-Italian crime film directed by the Catalans film director Javier Setó (in the credit Saviero Seto), starring Jeffrey Hunter in his final film appearance, Guglielmo Spoletini, Eduardo Fajardo, Víctor Israel, Pier Angeli, Margaret Lee and Gogó Rojo.
Plot
After the
Great Depression Francesco Mannata started out to America from
Sicily to his brother Salvatore in
Chicago. Francesco takes the name
Frank Mannata and with Salvatore and their sister, Rosella organized a mafia empire. The mafia war breaks out between the Sicilian Mannatas and the
Italians-
Irish people O'Connor-Messina gangs. Many people die in the conflicts (including Salvatore and Rose); finally, Frank Mannata is killed by the minor gangster Dr. MacDonald.
Cast
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Jeffrey Hunter: Frank (Francesco) Mannata
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Guglielmo Spoletini: Salvatore Mannata, Frank's brother
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Margaret Lee: Lucy Barrett, Frank's wife
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Gogó Rojo: Rosella (Rose) Mannata, Frank's sister
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Pier Angeli: Bambi (as Anna Maria Pierangeli), Salvatore's lover
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Eduardo Fajardo: Dick O'Connor, Irish gangster boos
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Víctor Israel: Dr. MacDonald, doctor, consultant and gangster
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Beni Deus: Timothy, Rosella's Greek husband
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Paloma Cela
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Luis Induni: Buchanan, police chief of Chicago
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Sun De Sanders: Patricia
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Barta Barri: Matón, O'Connor's henchman
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Antonio Pica: Federel agent Ethen Lason
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Ricardo Palacios: Charlie Romero, bar owner
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Lola Villar: prostituta
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Mike Brendel
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Miguel del Castillo: O'Brian, gangster and O'Connor's mate
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Juan Olaguivel: O'Brian's bodyguard and driver
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Fernando Bilbao
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Kathy Lagarde
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Yamil Omar: Turkish immigrant
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Antonia Mas: Mammy, proprietress of bordello
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Rafael Vaquero
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Adolfo Thous
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Manuel Bermúdez Boliche
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José Solís
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Armando Calvo: Senator Charles Temple
Production
Setó's movie partly is the epigon of crime film
They Paid with Bullets: Chicago 1929 (1969) of
Julio Diamante.
While in Spain in November 1968 to film Cry Chicago, Jeffrey Hunter was injured in an on-set explosion when a car window near him, which had been rigged to explode outward, accidentally exploded inward.[ He fell and struck his head on a banister, fracturing his skull.]
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