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 Oliver Reed 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.
Not to be confused with the 2005 Guy Ritchie thriller.
Contains examples of:
- Bathroom Breakout: 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.
- Breaking Out the Boss: 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.
- Car Fu: After capturing Vito's prison guard ally while he is on the phone to Vito, the kidnappers run him down with a car in an attempt to Make It Look Like an Accident.
- Clothing Combat: 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.
- Damsel in Distress: Anna Cipriani's role in the film is solely to be held hostage and force her husband Vito into action.
- Disconnected by Death: 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 pistol whip him into unconsciousness before murdering him.
- Disguised in Drag: 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.
- Due to the Dead: After his partner dies at the start of the film, Ruiz carefully buries his body beneath a cairn of stones: reverently placing his partner's revolver in his hand before placing the last few stones atop the body.
- Gangland Drive-By: 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.
- Hand-or-Object Underwear: When Vito walks in on Grappa in bed with two women, one of the women picks up a pillow and holds in front of her.
- Handy Cuffs: 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.
- Hard Head: It takes two solid blows from a blackjack to knock out Vito Cipriani.
- I Have Your Wife: 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.
- In the Back: Vito eventually kills Milo Ruiz by shooting him in the back, although Milo Ruiz lives long enough to turn around and take a second shot in the chest, so he dies facing Vito.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: The kidnappers murder Vito's friend who was tailing them by 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.
- Office Golf: One of the girls at the party at Al Niko's place is seen putting into a cup.
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- Outside Ride: 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 by the lack of concern he felt for the officer's life.
- Pistol-Whipping: 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 pistol whip him into unconsciousness before murdering him.
- Pop the Tires: 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.
- A Threesome is Manly: When Vito goes to visit his snitch Grappa, Grappa is in bed with two women.
- Title Drop: 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..."
- Venturous Smuggler: 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 Love Interest.
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