Love and Blood

For the 2006 Korean martial arts film, see The City of Violence. For the 2017 album by Shane Nicholson (singer), see Love and Blood (album).

Love and Blood (Italian: Amore e sangue) is a 1951 Italian-German crime melodrama film directed by Marino Girolami and starring Maria Montez in one of her last roles.^[1] It was also known as City of Violence. The film's art direction was by Max Mellin and Rolf Zehetbauer.

Love and Blood
French film poster
Directed by	Marino Girolami
Written by	Gino De Santis Ernst Marischka Paola Ojetti
Produced by	William A. Szekeley
Starring	Maria Montez Alan Curtis
Cinematography	Anchise Brizzi
Edited by	Loris Bellero
Music by	Renzo Rossellini
Production companies	A. B. Film Comedia-Film La Quercia Produzione Film
Release date	5 April 1951 (1951-04-05)
Running time	86 minutes
Countries	Italy West Germany
Language	Italian

A separate German-language version Shadows Over Naples was also made, directed by Hans Wolff.^[2]

Cast

• Maria Montez as Dolores
• Massimo Serato as Peppuccio
• Hans Söhnker as Marco, capo camorra
• Carlo Giustini as Paolo
• Mirella Uberti [it] as Nennella
• Folco Lulli as Pietro
• Andrea Checchi
• Josef Meinrad as Otto
• Vittorio De Sosti
• Alan Curtis
• Pina Piovani
• Dina Romano
• Riccardo Valente
• Diego Pozzetto
• Dario Michaelis
• Siegfried Breuer
• Pasquale Fasciano as Ercole
• Liana Del Balzo
• Petra Peters
• Clelia Matania
• Otto Wernicke
• Domenico Baiardo
• Viktor Afritsch [de]
• Ursula Herking
• Anita Angius
• Ernst Rotmund
• Giulio Battiferri