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1968 Italian film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Frame Up (Italian: Quella carogna dell'ispettore Sterling, literally: "That Bastard Inspector Sterling") is a 1968 Italian noir-crime film directed by Emilio Miraglia and starring Henry Silva, Beba Lončar and Keenan Wynn.[2][page needed] In 1971, the American edit was shortened by several minutes and released as The Falling Man.[3]
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Plot
A police inspector's son is killed by a gang of thieves and is accused of having killed a police informer. After being kicked out of the police department, the inspector must discover the truth on his own.
Cast
- Henry Silva as Inspector Sterling
- Beba Lončar as Janet
- Keenan Wynn as Police Commissioner Donald
- Carlo Palmucci as Gary
- Pier Paolo Capponi as O'Neil
- Luciano Rossi as Joseph Randolph
- Larry Dolgin as Kelly
- Charlene Polite as Anne
- Bob Molden as Rocky
Production
Frame Up was shot at Cinecittà in Rome and on location in San Francisco.[1]
Release
Frame Up was released theatrically in Italy on 13 April 1968 where it was distributed by Unidis.[1] The film grossed a total of 397,425,000 Italian lire on its theatrical run.[1] The film circulated in various edited forms on its initial release.[4] The European version is about Sterling's quest to find a man who murdered his son and framed him for shooting an informant.[4] It is dramatised through flashbacks that lead up to the murder.[5] The American edit of the film was distributed through Heritage Enterprises in 1971 and re-titled The Falling Man which runs at 85 minutes.[1][5] The edit changes the story and has a new English-language dub and a new score by Marcel Lawler.[5]
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