Street People

1976 "The Hunting Season Has Opened In The Naked City"
5.2| 1h41m| en
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A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.

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Scanialara You won't be disappointed!
Steineded How sad is this?
BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.
Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
shakercoola Crime caper with a buddy act thrown in. It's an Italian production and so the foreign cast members are dubbed, though Roger Moore speaks fluent Italian as and when required. Moore plays an English-Sicilian lawyer, nephew of a Sicilian crime family head who now operates out of San Francisco. Moore teams up with Friscan wiseguy Stacey Keach as they track down some drug smugglers who've cross the line, coming into conflict with a wider criminal underworld. There are impressive car chase sequences and shoot-outs, but the double act never really goes up the gears despite good screen chemistry. Moore comes over a bit stilted while Keach is the funnier of the two. Although scripted by the Academy Award winning screenwriter of The French Connection the film suffers from poor editing and some shoddy camerawork at times. The film might have some interest value for viewers who have a curiosity for a story that is hard to fathom.
Ralf Thomas Siegel In my opinion, the ratings are somewhat unfair, possibly because they compare the film with current productions. The film is from 1976 and therefore should be measured at the standards of that time and here, I find, it still exceeds the average. The two main actors, Roger Moore and, more specifically, Stacey Keach, are the main reason for this. Some complain about the English dubbing. About this I can say nothing, but I can imagine that a bad dubbing can mess something, or all here. Well, the German Dubbing is very good, both protagonists have the well- known sync voices, Roger Moore, for example, from his James Bond films. Both act as buddies and complement each other excellently, just Keach's role brings loose the film excellently and humorously. The music is better than the beats from other Italian films of the 70s. Also the production and the existing budget is higher. I often read 'low budget film' but as mentioned before, compare it to the standard Italian classic flick and not with an James Bond Production. The two auto- action scenes are very well implemented, also the filming sites was well-considered. Surely we have here no top film belonging to the IMDb Top 250, but in my opinion synonymous not the superfluous film, which is only waste of time. It is a solid, versatile action tiller who can be given a chance. In German its called Abrechnung in San Francisco, meaning Last billing in SF, which suits much better than Street People. A weak 7, but a 7.
addehit I have seen over 650 movies and this one is special. Roger is a weird choice in the cast but he develops a special bond with Stacey keatch in this movie that reminds me of roger and tony Curtis in The persuaders. As a movie its very mixed, both with humor and action and that makes it very hard to really like. Because its trying to be both serious and silly. If you can look past this, its a great movie. I really recommend it. If you like movies, don't miss this one. This is a very special movie that has way to few followers and a ridiculously low IMDb rating this is a weird but lovable movie. Its not a masterpiece but its worth your time.Roger carries this movie on his broad shoulders. Without him this would have been a joke.See it.
Jonathon Dabell This film is one of the hardest Roger Moore films to track down, other than the almost forgotten Sunday Lovers. The version I saw was entitled The Executors and ran for 100 minutes, and as far as I'm aware it is the most complete edition of the film in circulation. Other editions include Sicilian Cross, Gli Esecutori and Street People. Under any title it is not a good film..... in fact, it is one of the worst examples of Italian profiteering movie making.The film is similar to The French Connection. It deals with drug peddlars in San Francisco. In order to smuggle their latest consignment in the US, they have used a wooden crucifix sent as a gift to the Californian fishermen from the island of Sicily. This enrages the local godfather, who sends his nephew Moore to catch the culprits. Moore enlists the aid of his hard-driving buddy Stacy Keach and eventually tracks down the villains, but the truth affects him more personally and emotively than he could have foreseen.The film is full of under developed moments. There's a great opportunity for a classic car chase, but the sequence is badly editted and makes little sense. The final showdown could have packed a real wallop, but it fizzles out without generating anything of note. The best scene involves Keach wrecking a car, but even then it isn't a great scene... merely a mediocre scene in a movie full of bad scenes.Moore gives an OK performance and Keach is pretty good in his usual casual way. The foreign actors are embarrassingly dubbed and look foolish as a result. All in all, this film is for Roger Moore completists only,as anybody else will certainly find it a hard slog.