Wild Dogs

Originaltitel: Cani arrabbiati

1974
18
1 Std. 36 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,4/10

5511

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuFollowing a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,4/10

5511

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Trentadue
(as Luigi Montefiori)

Riccardo Cucciolla

Riccardo

Don Backy

Bisturi
(as Aldo Caponi)

Maurice Poli

Dottore

Erika Dario

Marisa

Marisa Fabbri

Maria Sbravati

Luigi Antonio Guerra

Employee
(as Luigi Guerra)

Gustavo De Nardo

Gas Station Attendant
(as Francesco Ferrini)

Emilio Bonucci

Taxi Driver

Pino Manzari

Toll Collector

Ettore Manni

Bank President

Mario Bava

Crowd extra
(Nicht genannt)

Anna Curti

Maria's Friend
(Nicht genannt)

Stefano De Sando

Captain Diotallevi (version 'Kidnapped')
(Nicht genannt)

Barbara Ehringer

Woman behind the window (1996 prologue restoration)
(Synchronisation)
(Nicht genannt)

Nina Gueltzow

Woman behind the window (1996 prologue restoration)
(Nicht genannt)

Mario Pascucci

Paymaster
(Nicht genannt)

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Wissenswertes
The film was seized by the courts when the producer went bankrupt in 1974, during the final stages of production. Tied up in legal wrangling, it wasn't released theatrically until 1997.

Patzer
When Doc looks up from tinkering with a car's engine in his first scene, the camera crew is reflected in his sunglasses.

Zitate
Passenger in passing car: [to Riccardo, as Treintadue rapes Maria] What are you thinking? Are you a mobile motel? You drive up front, while your friends fuck in the back?

Alternative Versionen
Originally shot in 1974 under the title 'L'uomo e il bambino', this film was shelved when one of the film financial backers died and ownership of the picture became entangled in bankruptcy proceedings before post-production had been completed, which prevented its theatrical release. The film sat on a shelf for almost 25 years until actress Lea Lander rescued it from oblivion by helping finance a DVD release: a new short prologue was shot, according to Bava's original script, and editing and scoring were completed using existing available materials. In 2002 producer Alfredo Leone and director Lamberto Bava (Mario's son), allegedly dissatisfied with the DVD edit, produced a new restored version of the film. Lamberto Bava and his son Roy shot additional footage and original composer Stelvio Cipriani created a new complete musical score (though the DVD release employed some of Cipriani's cues and themes, the film was never properly scored in 1974). This restored version, produced by Kismet Entertainment Group and retitled "Kidnapped", premiered theatrically in the US on May 31, 2002 as part of a Mario Bava retrospective at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood

Verbindungen
Featured in End of the Road: Making 'Rabid Dogs' & 'Kidnapped' (2007)

Soundtracks
Hold On To Me
(Appears in the 'Kidnapped' version)
Words by Myriann D'Antine
Music by Stelvio Cipriani
Sung by Simona Patitucci

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Ausgewählte Rezension

7/10

Brava, Bava

There's a long troubled history behind this one, about how it wasn't released until 1996 due to legal problems with the financiers and such like, but the saddest thing is how the world let Mario Bava slip through its fingers as a master filmmaker. How could Alfredo Breschia make five films in 1979, yet Bava had to fire his cinematographer just so he could afford to make this film?

Let's get to the film: Four nasty armed gunmen violently rob a firm of it's wages and during the getaway their driver is killed and car immobilised. After a stand-off with the police that results in a woman being stabbed in the neck, our three remaining bad guys grab another woman for a hostage and in a hurry jump into a car containing a sick child and his father. Get used to the inside of this car because about two thirds of the film takes place in it.

We also get to know our bad guys a bit more. There's the calm, intelligent Doc (Maurice Poli), the not-calm, violent Blade, and the really not-calm psycho and potential rapist Thirty-Two (George Eastman). They want to get out of town avoiding all roadblocks, whereas the man just wants them to leave him and the kid alone. The woman, understandably, is terrified, especially of Thirty-Two and his not-too-subtle sexual innuendo.

You can't write much about a plot like this without spoiling stuff, but needless to say its a horrific road trip full of anger and tension. Don't expect Bava's colour schemes here though, because he plays things one hundred percent legit, letting the sweaty actors scream at each other to keep the mood anxious and unpredictable. The tone is relentlessly nasty throughout. Riccardo Cuicolla is as good as he was in The Case Is Closed: Forget About It, and a good choice to play the man who just wants to protect the sick child he has with him.

This is Bava mind you, so don't think thing play out the way you think they will. After this he only made the creepy Shock, and I've read that film was mostly completed by his son Lamberto. With the right money and recognition, what else could the man have achieved?