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Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
- Director
- Writers
- Mario Puzo
- Steve Shagan
- Gore Vidal(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThe novel is a spin-off of The Godfather (set during Michael's exile in Sicily), however all references to the Corleones are omitted from the film.
- GoofsThe film shows Giuliano trying to stop the massacre at Portella della Ginestre (blamed in the film on Terranova, who was one of the few of Giuliano's band who it's definitely known did NOT fire a single shot on that day). In reality Giuliano always accepted full responsibility for the massacre and expressed no sorrow for the victims.
- Quotes
Salvatore Giuliano: You're an American, aren't you?
Camilla, Duchess of Crotone: Yes, and like every other Sicilian you want to go to America and start a pizzaria in Jersey.
- Crazy creditsThe 20th Century Fox logo is in black-and-white.
- Alternate versionsOriginally released at 115 minutes in the USA. A 146-minutes director's cut is available on video and at least in Europe as a region 2 DVD.
- ConnectionsEdited into Lo schermo a tre punte (1995)
- SoundtracksDomanda al ciel ... Dio, che nell'alma infondere
from "Don Carlo, Act II"
Written by Giuseppe Verdi
Performed by Enrico Caruso and Antonio Scotti
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Cimino is one of the very rare species on earth that can create a "MOOD' that leads to the very cradle of western civilization. The Roman Empire. As a foreigner who has lived in an Italian town for a year, I come to see that the colossal heart of every Italian man can only be captured with its gist by Cimino. And no other up till date. It comes from lighting, its shadow, its colours, its smell even on screen, its silhouettes, its accents, its breathing space, and his very own colossal heart that can contain it all. You do feel that he has achieved that sacred task in showing us THE SICILIAN. Nobody has that feeling ever been captured with rapture that its texture is almost noble, royal, yet sacred. But in its careful craftsmanship of Cimino, you find it everywhere, and it is just everywhere that overflows: its costumes, its lighting, its camerawork, its juxtaposition, its projections, so on and so forth. Its tempo of the film makes you flow like a river that breeds lives and cultures at the very same time.
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Box office
- Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,406,879
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,720,351
- Oct 25, 1987
- Gross worldwide
- $5,406,879
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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