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Defeat of the Mafia is a film of genre Crime directed by Warren Kiefer with Victor Spinetti
Defeat of the Mafia (1970)
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Add to a movie listDefeat of the Mafia (Italian: Scacco alla mafia) is an Italian noir-crime film directed by Warren Kiefer and starring Victor Spinetti and Maria Pia Conte. It was shot in the late 1968 but released only in November 1970. It was initially planned to be an Italian-Argentine co-production.
Actors
Victor Spinetti
(Charles Agostino)
Maria Pia Conte
(Jenny Ryan)
Pier Paolo Capponi
(Scott Luce)
Luciano Pigozzi
(Frankie Agostino (as Alan Collins))
Micaela Pignatelli
(Marjorie Mills)
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