Directed by Richard Fleischer.
Starring Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Abe Vigoda, Angel Tompkins, Jo Anne Meredith, and Sid Haig.
SYNOPSIS:
A mafia enforcer instigates an internal war when he beats his girlfriend to a pulp, not knowing she was having a romance with the Don of the family.
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THE DON IS DEAD!’ screams the title of Richard Fleischer’s 1973 gangster bloodbath, and indeed he is, leaving his son Frank (Robert Forster –
Apocalypse Now) as his successor. But a consortium of 1970s character actors whose faces you will recognise have decided Frank is too inexperienced to run his late father’s crime family and so business interests are divided up between Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest and some actors from
Eureka Entertainment releases
The Don is Dead, an explosively violent 70s gangster flick starring Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest and Robert Forster, on Blu-ray as a part of the Eureka Classics range from Monday, January 18th, and we have three copies to give away to our readers!
A criminally underrated and explosively violent gangster saga from director Richard Fleischer, The Don Is Dead features one of the all-time great casts of tough guy actors: legendary multiple Oscar®-winner Anthony Quinn, Robert Forster (Jackie Brown), and Frederic Forrest (Apocalypse Now) are joined by Al Lettieri (The Getaway), Joe Santos (The Friends of Eddie Coyle), Abe Vigoda (The Godfather), Vic Tayback (Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore), Victor Argo (Taxi Driver), and Sid Haig (House of 1000 Corpses). Riddled with as many double crosses as bullet hits, The Don Is Dead is like a gritty 70s pulp paperback come to bloody life.