The Boss

Director: Fernando Di Leo

1973 / 109min / DCP

From a bravura opening in which a gang of mafiosi, hunkering down to enjoy a porno flick, are blown to smithereens by a grenade launcher-wielding assassin planted in the projection booth, Di Leo’s canonical poliziottesco doesn’t skimp on the inspired brutality, much of it committed by Henry Silva, the black-eyed mob enforcer who sparks off a crime family war for boss Richard Conte. Kept moving at a brisk clip by Luis Enriquez Bacalov’s driving piano score, the last entry of Di Leo’s Milieu Trilogy is a bliss-out for fans of lean, mean Eurocrime thrillers, chockablock with crooked crops, nymphomaniac hostages, and more double- and triple-crosses than you’ll find in a book of sailor’s knots.

New 4K restoration from the original camera negatives.