6/10
Richard HARRISON as Hitman in Istanbul
27 January 2024
Cheap crime thriller from an Italian-Turkish co-production! In order to minimize costs, the Italian film industry occasionally filmed in Istanbul, Turkey. The Yesilcam studios there were the heart of a film industry that was at times the third largest in the world in the 1970s.

Sandals film hero Richard HARRISON plays a cold-snout mafia hitman who handles business in Istanbul for the Godfather. He murders with a gas hidden in the lighter. The guy is so bold that he sleeps with a mafia rival's voluptuous mistress (Krista NELL) in the bedroom and then takes out her drunk guy in the living room. But the killer suffers from childhood trauma and is still looking for the murderer who wiped out his entire family. When he meets an ex-girlfriend (Erika BLANC) again, events come to a head...

Lots of sleaze, sexiness to the point of despair and lots of local Istanbul color! Not an earth-shattering film, but a real sleaze of a gangster flick!

But a warning to all animal lovers: There is a violent scene in which an animal is slaughtered immediately. Not nice at all!
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