Blu-ray Release: Caliber 9 

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Laurence
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Blu-ray Release Date: June 13, 2023
Price: Blu-ray $14.99
Studio: Kino Lorber

Fernando Di Leo’s 1972 Italian crime classic Caliber 9 (Milano Calibro 9) is presented here in a stunning 4K restoration!

Small-time gangster Ugo Piazza (Gastone Moschin, The Godfather Part II) has just been released from prison. He tries to convince the police, the mafia, and his one-time associate Rocco (Mario Adorf, The Tin Drum), a sadistic hoodlum who enjoys sick violence and torture, that he wants to go straight, but everyone believes he has $300,000 of stolen money hidden somewhere. Caliber 9’s stylized violence, fast-paced action sequences, tight editing and plot twists prefigure the work of Quentin Tarantino and John Woo. 

The film also features a notable score by Luis Bacalov (Django) and the luscious Barbara Bouchet (Cry of a Prostitute) as Ugo’s go-go dancing girlfriend. The restoration of Milano Calibro 9 was carried out in 2022 by the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale from the negatives made available by Minerva Pictures. To reconstruct the version desired by the director, the title cards were reintegrated, recovered from a copy conserved in the archives of the Cineteca Nazionale.

Special Features:
• Audio commentary by film historian Rachael Nisbet
• Alternate English audio track
• Documentary on the making of Caliber 9
• Fernando Di Leo: The Genesis of the Genre
• Documentary: Scerbanenco Noir
• Photo Gallery with audio commentary by Gastone Moschin
• Trailer

Buy or Rent Caliber 9 

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.