Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi’s Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate speculation that has devastated Naples’s civilian landscape moves breathlessly from a cataclysmic building collapse to the backroom negotiations of civic leaders vying for power in a city council election, laying bare the inner workings of corruption with passion and outrage.

Movie rating: 7.6 / 10 (3089)

Directed by: Francesco Rosi - Raffaele La Capria - Enzo Provenzale

Writer credits: Francesco Rosi - Raffaele La Capria

Cast: Rod Steiger - Salvo Randone - Guido Alberti - Marcello Cannavale - Dante Di Pinto

AKA: Le mani sulla città

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