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ARTIST
TITLE
La Citta Gioca D'Azzardo
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
CDDM 192CD CDDM 192CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/5/2018

Digitmovies release for the very first time on CD Luciano Michelini's complete original soundtrack in full stereo for the movie La Città Gioca D'azzardo (aka "Gambling City") which, shot in 1975 by Sergio Martino, is marginally part of the Italian police genre. Luc Merenda starred in the role of the nice protagonist with supporting players Dayle Haddon, Corrado Pani, and Enrico Maria Salerno. The plot sees Merenda as Luca Altieri, a gambler who is engaged in a club. The owner (Maria Salerno) is the boss of a large ring of gambling houses. Love for a woman (Haddon) torn between Luca and the son of the boss (Pani) will cause a rivalry which leads up to the beating up of Luca and the killing of the owner by the hands of his own son. After having escaped to Nice with the girl, Luca will challenge the cynical killer in a tragic finale. The movie by Martino mixes action with comedy and dramatic genres, in fact this movie is more a noir than a real police movie. This motion picture shot in Milan and Nice can be considered the central part of Sergio Martino hypothetical trilogy about the socio-political facts of the Italy of the '70s. Luciano Michelini has composed a main theme with a burlesque flavor, a little bit retro in a cabaret style which puts well in evidence the casino ambience and gets reprised with delicious variations. This recurrent motif is alternated with exciting action themes with the Lalo Schifrin sound of Dirty Harry concerning chases and shootings and with a fabulous duet of piano and sax with an urban flavor. The author has written a romantic love theme for the two main protagonists, introduced by piano and the voice of Nora Orlandi, and then reprised by the orchestra, and in the conclusive version of the "End Titles". For this CD Digitmovies have used the stereo master tapes of the original recording session preserved in very good condition in the RCA archives.