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Cast

• John Cassavetes as Hank McCain
• Britt Ekland as Irene Tucker
• Peter Falk as Charlie Adamo
• Gabriele Ferzetti as Don Francesco DeMarco
• Luigi Pistilli as Duke Mazzanga
• Margherita Guzzinati as Margaret DeMarco
• Claudio Biava as Barclay
• Steffen Zacharias as Abe Stilberman
• James Morrison as Joby Cuda
• Florinda Bolkan as Joni Adamo
• Tony Kendall as Pete Zacari
• Salvo Randone as Don Salvatore
• Gena Rowlands as Rosemary Scott
• Dan Gregory as The Baby-Faced Killer

Production

Machine Gun McCain was shot at both Incir-De Paolis and Dear Studios in Rome, as well as Las Vegas, San Francisco and Los Angeles.² Director Giuliano Montaldo stated that both Machine Gun McCain and Grand Slam were made to establish him in the film industry before making the films he wanted to make.³ Montaldo stated that Cassavetes took the title role to finance his own films.⁴

Release

Machine Gun McCain was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.⁵ It was released in Italy on 1 April 1969 where it was distributed by Euro International Film.⁶ It grossed a total of 803,751,000 Italian lire on its theatrical run in Italy.⁷ On its American release, the film was cut to 96 minutes.⁸

Reception

In a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin described the film as "executed with minimal flair, and thudding rather heavily on the moralist/social documentary side of the fence" and that "apart from an over-use of the Techniscope zoom lens, there's no style to speak of."⁹ In a contemporary review, on reviewing the Blue Underground Blu-ray, Tom Charity described the film as "haphazardly scripted" but noted that it is "Cassavetes' participation alongside his soon-to be regular collaborator Falk and his wife Gena Rowlands that piques our curiosity" and that "Adroitly mixing stylish Roman interiors with colourful location work, fast-paced and featuring a ridiculously snappy Ennio Morricone dirge, 'The Ballad of Hank McCain', ... adds up to an attractive footnote to Cassavetes' career".¹⁰

Notes

• Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469765.

External links

• Machine Gun McCain at IMDb
• Machine Gun McCain at AllMovie
• Machine Gun McCain at the TCM Movie Database
• Machine Gun McCain at the American Film Institute Catalog

References

1. Curti 2013, p. 29. - Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469765. ↩

2. Curti 2013, p. 29. - Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469765. ↩

3. Charity, Tom (November 2010). "Machine Gun McCain". Sight & Sound. British Film Institute. 20 (11): 88–89. /wiki/Sight_%26_Sound ↩

4. Charity, Tom (November 2010). "Machine Gun McCain". Sight & Sound. British Film Institute. 20 (11): 88–89. /wiki/Sight_%26_Sound ↩

5. "Festival de Cannes: Machine Gun McCain". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20120308022814/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2536/year/1969.html ↩

6. Curti 2013, p. 29. - Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469765. ↩

7. Curti 2013, p. 29. - Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469765. ↩

8. Curti 2013, p. 29. - Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469765. ↩

9. "Machine Gun McCain". Monthly Film Bulletin. London: British Film Institute. 37 (432): 147. 1970. /wiki/Monthly_Film_Bulletin ↩

10. Charity, Tom (November 2010). "Machine Gun McCain". Sight & Sound. British Film Institute. 20 (11): 88–89. /wiki/Sight_%26_Sound ↩