Senza Ragione (aka Redneck) (1973)

A psychopath (Telly Savalas), a male prostitute (Franco Nero) and a female getaway driver (Ely Galleani) rob a jewelry store but it all goes wrong and they find themselves on the run from the police. They steal a car without realizing there's a 13 year old boy (Mark Lester) in the backseat. Directed by Silvio Narrizano (LOOT). A nasty little crime thriller that's very dark and often unpleasant. It could be called a coming of age film but a coming of age movie like no other. Lester's young boy becomes attached to his kidnappers (Stockholm syndrome?) and eventually begins to enjoy the death and destruction around him. The thieves kill children and animals along the way so there's no way the audience is going to have any empathy for them and eventually that empathy is taken away from Lester's young innocent, too. Placing the then 14 year old Lester (he even has a nude scene) in all this violence and sexuality is certainly not PC today so I doubt a movie like this would get made today. Worth checking out. With Duilio Del Prete and Beatrice Clary.