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1973 film

Tony Arzenta
Italian film poster
Directed by	Duccio Tessari
Screenplay by	Ugo Liberauce Franco Verucci Roberto Gandus
Story by	Franco Verucci
Produced by	Luciano Martino Alain Delon Raymond Danon
Starring	Alain Delon Richard Conte Carla Gravina
Cinematography	Silvano Ippoliti
Edited by	Mario Morra
Music by	Gianni Ferrio
Production companies	Mondial Te.Fe Adel Productions
Distributed by	Titanus (Italy) Gaumont Distribution (France)
Release dates	23 August 1973 (1973-08-23) (France) 7 September 1973 (1973-09-07) (Italy)
Running time	113 minutes
Countries	Italy France
Languages	English Italian
Box office	₤1.946 billion (Italy) 866,746 admissions (France)

Tony Arzenta (internationally released as Big Guns and No Way Out) is a 1973 Italian gangster-action film directed by Duccio Tessari. The film was commercially successful.

Plot

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When Milan-based mafia hitman Tony Arzenta asks to get out of the business, his bosses decide to kill him as he knows too much, but accidentally kill his wife and child instead. Arzenta embarks on a campaign of revenge.

Cast

Alain Delon: Tony Arzenta
Richard Conte: Nick Gusto
Carla Gravina: Sandra
Marc Porel: Domenico Maggio
Roger Hanin: Carré
Nicoletta Machiavelli: Anna Arzenta
Lino Troisi: Rocco Cutitta
Silvano Tranquilli: Montani, the Interpol officer
Corrado Gaipa: Arzenta's Father
Umberto Orsini: Isnello, Gusto's right-hand man
Giancarlo Sbragia: Luca Dennino
Erika Blanc: The prostitute
Ettore Manni: Gesmundo, the sauna owner
Loredana Nusciak: Gesmundo's Lover
Rosalba Neri: Cutitta's Wife
Maria Pia Conte: Carré's Secretary
Anton Diffring: Hans Grunwald
Alberto Farnese: The Man who meets Carré in the nightclub

Release

Tony Arzenta was released in France on 23 August 1973. The film was released in Italy on 7 September 1973, where it was distributed by Titanus. It grossed a total of 1,945,982,000 Italian lire on its release.

Footnotes

^ Curti 2013, p. 72.
Box office information for film at Box Office Story
Roberto Chiesi. Alain Delon. Gremese Editore, 2002.
"Tony Arzenta" (in French). Bifi.fr. Retrieved 29 November 2015.

References

Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469765.

External links

Tony Arzenta at IMDb
Tony Arzenta at the TCM Movie Database

v t e Films directed by Duccio Tessari
My Son, the Hero (1962) Il Fornaretto di Venezia (1963) Secret of the Sphinx (1965) Una voglia da morire (1965) A Pistol for Ringo (1965) The Return of Ringo (1965) Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang (1966) Per amore... per magia... (1967) Better a Widow (1968) The Cats (1968) Sundance and the Kid (1969) La morte risale a ieri sera (1970) The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971) Long Live Your Death (1971) Winged Devils (1972) The Heroes (1973) Tony Arzenta / Big guns (1973) Puzzle (1974) Three Tough Guys (1974) Zorro (1975) Safari Express (1976) Sexycop (1976) The Fifth Commandment (1978) Tex and the Lord of the Deep (1985) There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs (1989) Beyond Justice (1992)

Films directed by Duccio Tessari

My Son, the Hero (1962)
Il Fornaretto di Venezia (1963)
Secret of the Sphinx (1965)
Una voglia da morire (1965)
A Pistol for Ringo (1965)
The Return of Ringo (1965)
Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang (1966)
Per amore... per magia... (1967)
Better a Widow (1968)
The Cats (1968)
Sundance and the Kid (1969)
La morte risale a ieri sera (1970)
The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971)
Long Live Your Death (1971)
Winged Devils (1972)
The Heroes (1973)
Tony Arzenta / Big guns (1973)
Puzzle (1974)
Three Tough Guys (1974)
Zorro (1975)
Safari Express (1976)
Sexycop (1976)
The Fifth Commandment (1978)
Tex and the Lord of the Deep (1985)
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs (1989)
Beyond Justice (1992)

v t e Alain Delon
List of performances
Films directed	Pour la peau d'un flic (1981) Le Battant (1983)
Films produced	Jeff (1969) Borsalino (1970) The Love Mates (1970) Easy, Down There! (1971) Tony Arzenta (1973) Two Men in Town (1973) Borsalino & Co. (1974) Flic Story (1975) The Gypsy (1975) Boomerang (1976) Monsieur Klein (1976) Armaguedon (1977) Death of a Corrupt Man (1977) Le Gang (1977) Man in a Hurry (1977) Attention, the Kids Are Watching (1978) The Medic (1979) Three Men to Kill (1980) Parole de flic (1985) The Passage (1986) Let Sleeping Cops Lie (1988) Dancing Machine (1990) The Return of Casanova (1992)
Miscellaneous	Marković affair "Paroles, paroles"

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