| Gambling City | |
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| Directed by | Sergio Martino |
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| Story by | Ernesto Gastaldi[1] |
| Produced by | Luciano Martino |
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| Cinematography | Giancarlo Ferrando[1] |
| Edited by | Eugenio Alabiso[1] |
| Music by | Luciano Michelini[1] |
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| Distributed by | Medusa |
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Running time | 101 minutes[1] |
| Country | Italy[1] |
| Box office | ₤777.334 million |
Gambling City (Italian: La città gioca d'azzardo) is a 1975 Italian poliziotteschi film by Sergio Martino. It stars Luc Merenda, Enrico Maria Salerno, Dayle Haddon and Corrado Pani.[1]
Gambling City is one of several European heist films produced in response to the popular success of American films in the genre like The Sting (1973).[2] The film features many of the genre's standard conventions, including a Byronic hero who acts as a social bandit by practicing confidence tricks, the hero's forbidden love with a socially repressed damsel in distress (who may or may not exhibit facets of the femme fatale) and a morally corrupt dandy as villain and the hero's foil. The film was co-written by Martino and Ernesto Gastaldi,[1] and produced by Luciano Martino.[1]