Violent City (aka Citta Violenta) (1970)

After a bloody double cross leaves him for dead, a professional assassin (Charles Bronson) tracks down the shooter and his mistress (Jill Ireland) and takes his revenge and the woman. But it doesn't end there. A powerful crime boss (Telly Savalas) wants the assassin to join his mob and it turns out he's married to the duplicitous femme fatale and former mistress of the hitman's shooter! Co-written (along with Lina Wertmuller) and directed by Sergio Sollima (THE BIG GUNDOWN), the violent city of the title is New Orleans. The film had some eight minutes cut for the U.S. market in its initial release but I watched the uncut European version. Even in the uncut version, the film is often incoherent so I can only imagine how confusing the U.S. cut must have been. It's a bloody film with no one to cheer on unless professional assassins are heroes to you and by the time the film is over, there is no last man standing. If the film belongs to anyone, it belongs to Jill Ireland who plays one of the most calculating and duplicitous power hungry bitches I've ever seen in movies. I just wish the film's timeline wasn't so confusing and made more sense but I suppose this isn't the kind of movie where the plot matters much. Ennio Morricone provides one of his very best scores. With Umberto Orsini and Michel Constantin.