Redneck (1972)

Silvio Narizzano was never going to direct a masterpiece but, at his peak, neither could he be branded a maker of films that bored the viewer. Confusion, curiosity, vitality, silliness, the oddball and duff social messages, a buckshot discharge, to be dodged, to be struck by, no single scene could one relax with. None too surprisingly, he did turn out the occasional film that was to develop a cult audience, and Georgy Girl (1966) is one of the most revisited. If I once took to The Class Of Miss MacMichael (1978) it had more to do with the mildly shocking secondary school mischief and how it potentially reflected my ongoing school life, striking a comparison between the misfits from the fictional against those in my fourth and fifth years at Holy Cross R.C. High. His films are characterised by miscasting, by sporadic excesses and a dismissive attitude towards conventional paradigm and structure, and an unreality and unexpectedness, an escalation of the incidental that pushed it outside the radius of the believable.
Disturbed characters populate his films and there can be none crazier than Memphis (Telly Savalas), the lead desperado in Redneck (aka: Senza Ragione) his 1973 UK-Italian co-production, murderous and unpredictable, a visitor from the American South who screws up a jewel heist, gunning the shop owner down. Action is followed by more action as the getaway car takes us on a thrill ride through streets lined with evocative Italian frontages, exchanging vehicles and inadvertently picking up a stray, Lennox Duncan (Mark Lester) the spoilt brat of a very wealthy couple. A nationwide manhunt is on and, as obvious as they are together, they evade capture right up until the border. Memphis' companions in crime are Mosquito (Franco Nero) and Maria (Ely Galleani), a loser and his prostitute girl, who strangely respect and naturally fear him respectively. cast: Franco Nero, Telly Savalas, Mark Lester, Ely Galleani, and Maria Michi
director: Silvio Narizzano
84 minutes (15) 1973
widescreen ratio 16:9
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