Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Film / Revolver1973

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* OutsideRide: One of the police officers who stumbles across Carlotta's truck at the service station, grabs the bar at the front when Vito drives off. He manages to hold on for a distance along the road before falling off. Later, Vito is concerned bby the lack of concern he felt for the officer's life.

to:

* OutsideRide: One of the police officers who stumbles across Carlotta's truck at the service station, grabs the bar at the front when Vito drives off. He manages to hold on for a distance along the road before falling off. Later, Vito is concerned bby by the lack of concern he felt for the officer's life.

Added: 176

Changed: 3

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* BreakingOutTheBoss: An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back.



* GanglandDriveBy: An oil company executive is walking in he street, talking to his secretary, murdered when a man rides up behind him on a motorbike and shoots him in the back.

to:

* GanglandDriveBy: An oil company executive is walking in he street, talking to his secretary, is murdered when a man rides up behind him on a motorbike and shoots him in the back.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* HandyCuffs: After kidnapping Milo Ruiz, Vito handcuffs his hands in front. After Vito brings him back to his apartment, Ruiz grabs a floor ashtray and attempts to clobber Vito with it.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* DueToTheDead: After his partner dies at the start of the film, Ruiz carefully buries his body beneath a cairn of stones: carefully placing his partner's revolver in his hand before placing the last few stones atop the body.

to:

* DueToTheDead: After his partner dies at the start of the film, Ruiz carefully buries his body beneath a cairn of stones: carefully reverently placing his partner's revolver in his hand before placing the last few stones atop the body.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

Not to be confused with [[Film/Revolver2005 the 2005 Guy Ritchie thriller]].


Added DiffLines:

* DueToTheDead: After his partner dies at the start of the film, Ruiz carefully buries his body beneath a cairn of stones: carefully placing his partner's revolver in his hand before placing the last few stones atop the body.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* DamselInDistress: Anna Cipriani's role in the film is solely to be [[IHaveYourWife held hostage]] and force her husband Vito into action.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* DisguisedInDrag: A long haired male member of the gang is dressed up as Vito's wife to lure Vito into an ambush at the hostage exchange.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* OutsideRide: One of the police officers who stumbles across Carlotta's truck at the service station, grabs the bar at the front when Vito drives off. He manages to hold on for a distance along the road before falling off. Later, Vito is concerned bby the lack of concern he felt for the officer's life.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* VenturousSmuggler: Vito and Ruiz employ Carlotta, a female smuggler who makes a living running people across the Italian/French border, to smuggle them from Italy into France. She also serves as Ruiz's into LoveInterest.

to:

* VenturousSmuggler: Vito and Ruiz employ Carlotta, a female smuggler who makes a living running people across the Italian/French border, to smuggle them from Italy into France. She also serves as Ruiz's into LoveInterest.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* VenturousSmuggler: Vito and Ruiz employ Carlotta, a female smuggler who makes a living running people across the Italian/French border, to smuggle them from Italy into France. She also serves as Ruiz's into LoveInterest.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The kidnappers murder Vito's friend who was tailing them by [[CarFu hitting him with a car]], and staging he body to make it look like he was the victim of a hit-and-run.

to:

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The kidnappers murder Vito's friend who was tailing them by [[CarFu hitting him with a car]], and staging he body to make it look like he was the victim of a hit-and-run. Later the conspiracy makes Al Niko's murder look like an accidental overdose.

Added: 244

Removed: 168

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* GraveGoods: When Ruiz buries his dead partner at the start of the film, he places his partner's revolver in his hand before he piles the last few rocks atop the body.


Added DiffLines:

* PistolWhipping: The guard who tails the kidnappers from the foundry is on the phone to Vito telling him their location when the kidnappers sneak up on him and [[DisconnectedByDeath pistol whip him into unconsciousness]] before murdering him.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* GraveGoods: When Ruiz buries his dead partner at the start of the film, he places his partner's revolver in his hand before he piles the last few rocks atop the body.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* InTheBack: Vito eventually kills [[spoiler:Milo Ruiz]] by shooting him in the back, although [[spoiler:Milo Ruiz]] lives long enough to turn around and take a second shot in the chest, so he dies facing Vito.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* TitleDrop: The lawyer Vito talks to after he attempts to turn himself into the French police, talks to him about the means society has to enforce control:
-->"...red tape, the prison cell, ''the revolver''..."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* HardHead: It takes two solid blows from a blackjack to knock out Vito Cipriani.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* PopTheTires: During the ambush, Vito fires multiple shots at the car driving towards them. One of his last shots punctures the front tyre of the car, causing it to swerve and crash.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* OfficeGolf: One of the girls at the party at Al Niko's place is seen putting into a cup.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The kidnappers murder Vito's friend who was tailing them by [[CarFu hitting him with a car]], and staging he body to make it look like he was the victim of a hit-and-run.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* CarFu: After capturing Vito's prison guard ally while he is [[DisconnectedByDeath on the phone to Vito]], the kidnappers run him down with a car in an attempt to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.


Added DiffLines:

* GanglandDriveBy: An oil company executive is walking in he street, talking to his secretary, murdered when a man rides up behind him on a motorbike and shoots him in the back.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* AThreesomeIsManly: When Vito goes to visit his snitch Grappa, Grappa is in bed with two women.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* DisconnectedByDeath: The guard who tails the kidnappers from the foundry is on the phone to Vito telling him their location when the kidnappers sneak up on him and [[PistolWhipping pistol whip him into unconsciousness]] before murdering him.

Added: 160

Changed: 252

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* HandOrObjectUnderwear: When Vito walks in on Grappa [[AThreesomeIsManly in bed with two women]], one of the women picks up a pillow and holds in fromto her.

to:

* ClothingCombat: When Ruiz attempts to clobber Vito with an ashtray, Vito counters by throwing his heavy coat at Ruiz; knocking him off-balance and giving Vito time to draw his gun.
* HandOrObjectUnderwear: When Vito walks in on Grappa [[AThreesomeIsManly in bed with two women]], one of the women picks up a pillow and holds in fromto front of her.

Added: 360

Changed: 308

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* IHaveYourWife: An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back.

to:

* BathroomBreakout: Milo Ruiz goes to the bathroom in the prison infirmary, then escapes by prising boards of the windows when the guard escorting him is called away to the warden's office.
* HandOrObjectUnderwear: When Vito walks in on Grappa [[AThreesomeIsManly in bed with two women]], one of the women picks up a pillow and holds in fromto her.
* IHaveYourWife: An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back.back.
* OneWordTitle
* WeaponTitle

----
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/revolver_sd.jpg]]

''Revolver'' (also titled ''Blood in the Streets'' and ''In the Name of Love'') is a poliziottesco film directed by Sergio Sollima and released in 1973. It stars Creator/OliverReed and Fabio Testi.

The wife of an Italian prison warden is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues do not kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.

----
!!Contains examples of:

* IHaveYourWife: An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back.

Top