Cry of a Prostitute (1974) ** (out of 4)Ultra-sleazy and incredibly violent Euro Crime picture starts off with a couple adults and a child being killed in a car crash. It turns out that the child had been dead for some time and his body was sewn-up with drugs hidden in it. Pretty soon two Mafia families are battling with each other when a hit man (Henry Silva) gets in the middle of things.Andrea Bianchi will always be remembered for the insane BURIAL GROUND as well as the sleazy STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER and if you're a fan of those films then you'll certainly want to check this one out even if the end result isn't nearly as good or as entertaining as those two pictures. What CRY OF A PROSTITUTE lacks in regards to any sort of story it more than makes up with its violence, which at times is rather shocking.Not only do we get countless shootings and stabbings but there's also a bizarre mix of sex and violence, which I'm sure would have outraged more people had the film been better known back in the day. There's some bizarre sexuality at play here including one woman being beaten before sexually pleased and another sequence involving a dead pig! The violence in the film is very much over-the-top and especially with the various shoot outs, which often lead people pouring blood all over the place.As I said, the sleaze and violence are top-notch and it's bound to please fans of the genre. Henry Silva also turns in good, strong performance like only he can and the supporting players are fun as well. The biggest problem I had with the film was the screenplay, which wasn't all that interesting and it certainly didn't add anything new to the genre. The characters weren't the most interesting either and the Mafia folks just seem like the ones we've seen countless times before.

This is a lousy remake of Fistfull of Dollars/Yojimbo. The film begins with a really violent and gory car accident that is edited really well. The police discover the sewn up dead body of a kid in the car and the body contains vials of cocaine.A police officer (Henry Silva) is sent to the Sicilian countryside to solve the feud (by basically killing everyone) between two families. He usually makes an entrance with a whistling tune that is quite tuneless. A good background score could have elevated this film a little bit.The film can boast of some great locales - like the streets, avenues and villas of Sicily.Barbara Bouchet is completely wasted. She plays the ex-prostitute alcoholic wife of one of the family heads. I am no male feminist and the reason I watched this film is to look at Barbara Bouchet. But she is completely demeaned in this film - there is a scene where Silva anally rapes her with her face buried in the bloody carcass of a cow! I can never forgive the director for this humiliation of one of my favorite actresses. Hence, the 3 rating. It turns out in the end that Silva has a beef with the man who sent him on the mission. The film ends rather tackily with a sermon - The eyes that cause weeping will weep someday themselves". The hands on action scenes were quite good. It is nice to watch on Blu Ray. (4.5/10)

"Cry of a Prostitute" is a typically boring and colourless poliziotteschi flick, perhaps only notable for its (also fairly typical) attitude toward women, who get slapped around a lot. One even has her face shoved in a hog's guts as punishment for trying to seduce the manly hero.I didn't pay close enough attention to work out the plot. It is impossible to pay close attention to 99% of poliziotteschi flicks because they are so boring and badly structured. You want to pay attention but then you're faced with a stretch of film about as exciting as staring at a wall for half an hour.There are, of course, some violent moments: the movie opens with a ridiculous car crash-decapitation scene, with what looks like a mannequin's head falling out of a car window. There's also an autopsy scene where a dead body has stitches in the chest which are cut open, revealing canisters of heroin.Anyway, main man Henry Silva, one of my all-time favourite actors, is a mafia don from the US who comes to Italy to investigate the situation. Once he's there, the other don's slutty wife immediately starts coming on to him, so Silva sticks her face in hog guts, and in another scene, slaps her down and attacks her with a belt. That'll show her!The only other woman in the movie I remember gets similar treatment.I remember reading that, unlike The Godfather, Italian mafia movies show the criminals for what they are: scum. There's no honour among them because the Italians had first hand experience of this type of scumbag and knew they were exactly that: human garbage.This is not true of "Cry of a Prostitute". You are obviously positioned to think that Silva is the "hero" of the story, despite his appalling treatment of women. In the end he is clearly positioned as the better man among his criminal cohorts, which is weird. He's a woman abusing criminal scumbag, after all?

1st watched 4/5/2003 - 4 out of 10(Dir-Andrea Bianchi): Godfather-like Italian movie without good acting, directing or writing. The title will fool you(at least the U.S. released video title-Cry of a Prostitute) because this movie has very little to do about a prostitute except that she is a minor character that pretends to be the wife of one of the many `Don's' in this movie. This is just a way to get people in the U.S. to rent the video. The story is actually about a man who plays the game with many mafia-type gangs and ends up being the top honcho in the end. It's very obvious where this movie is going, but there was some interesting things like seeing the actual reason for the family feuds(centering around the mis-treatment of a handicapped boy in one family) that became mafia's and seeing the reality of their real business's that become crooked by entering drugs into the business. The emotionless Henry Silva does an ok job in his part but most of the acting was not memorable. Watching this makes me want to see the Godfather, to see how much better it is in it's storytelling and acting. Not a good reason to give this a thumbs up, though.