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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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The complete European-release version is extraordinary
The European-release version of "The Sicilian" is 31 minutes longer than the US version. Supposedly, the director was ordered to deliver a version under 2 hours, so he recut the film to render it incoherent with the expectation that Fox would have to release the complete film. Only, they went ahead and released the deliberately botched shorter cut. This may be apocryphal, but it would help explain the critical drubbing it got in this country. I was lucky enough to see the complete film in Paris and was mesmerized. Gore Vidal was denied credit for the screenplay, but the film has a literacy, intellectual depth and acidity that is pure Vidal; the character played by Terrance Stamp is essentially Vidal's stand-in. The only comparable film might be "The Godfather," but with an even stronger historic/political context. It is certainly the highpoint of Michael Cimino's career to date, and I'm one of those odd ducks that fervently admires "Heaven's Gate". If you can see this in Europe, or if it comes out over there on DVD and you have a region-appropriate DVD player, grab the opportunity to see it.
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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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