Pronto (1997) (TV)

Director:

Jim McBride

Writers (WGA):

Elmore Leonard (book)
Michael Butler (screenplay)

Release Date:

8 junio 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Thriller

Plot:

Harry Arno is a Miami Beach bookie who finds himself in trouble with his mob bosses for reasons he can't quite figure out...

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel | Based On Book

Comentarios de los usuarios:

"That's where Ezra Pound lived"

Cast

Peter Falk	...	Harry Arno (Henri Arnaud)
Glenne Headly	...	Joyce Patton
James LeGros	...	Raylan Givens (as James Legros)
Sergio Castellitto	...	Tommy 'the Zip' Bucks
Walter Olkewicz	...	Jimmy 'the Cap' Capotorto
Luis Guzmán	...	Buck Torres (as Luis Guzman)
Bradford Tatum	...	Nick 'Joe Macho' Testa
Therese Kablan	...	Gloria Ayers
Franco Trevisi	...	Fabrizio
Armando De Razza	...	Benno
Francesca De Sapio	...	Maura
Glenn Plummer	...	Robert Gee
Nikos Papatheodorou	...	Marco
Giorgos Iaokovidis	...	Bartender
Kathy Skalldou	...	Prostitute

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, sexuality and language.

Duración:

100 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color

Sonido:

Ultra Stereo

Clasificación:

Australia:M | Germany:16 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Corfu, Greece

Company:

Showtime Pictures

Quotes:

Harry Arno: I'm telling you, Benno and Marco, they're like The Godfather, Part Two. It's like those guys are the original cast, and Jimmy the Cap and his boys are a road company.

"That's where Ezra Pound lived"

The credits say half of this was filmed on Corfu, but it sure looks like Rapallo, and there's a plaque on a house that says approximately this, "C'he visse Ezra Pound 1924-1945 / To Confess Wrong Without Losing Rightness".

The rest takes place in Miami. The protagonist is a bookmaker, the Feds try to rope him in by putting the word out he's a stoolie. He goes to Rapallo, a favorite haunt since his days as a GI when he met Pound, who was then in a cage.

A Deputy U.S. Marshal ferrets him out, a fellow who wears a Stetson and gradually acquires the cold aplomb of a Texas Ranger.

The bookie takes a stroll along Rapallo's seafront, wearing a soft dark wide-brimmed hat and cape. "Politics aside," he observes, "he was a great poet."

Jimmy the Cap in Miami wants him dead, and the hit man or "zip" from Sicily wants his sports book. His girlfriend fancies the marshal, she used to strip, and thinks the hat and cape look like Fellini.

"You can see Sant'Ambrogio from here," says the bookie in the villa he rents with the money he's skimmed, "that's where Ezra Pound lived with his wife and his mistress." He meets an American on the seafront passing himself off as a Tunisian (with a Jamaican accent) selling umbrellas in the sunshine, and hires him as cook and bodyguard at the villa.

McBride's direction gets to the point in the minimum time required. The acting is beyond reproach, the location cinematography is as well, and Elmore Leonard can scarcely have been better served.