Fresh
... the 81-minute film contains a surprising amount of information about the two Italian-born immigrants who were tried, convicted and executed in Boston amid accusations of grave injustice.
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times
Sacco & Vanzetti
The Murders that shocked the Nation. The Trial that still shakes the World.
1971 · 2h 5m · GP
Drama, History
Directed by
Giuliano Montaldo
Overview
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
Director and cast
- Giuliano Montaldo Director
- Gian Maria Volonté as Bartolomeo Vanzetti
- Riccardo Cucciolla as Nicola Sacco
- Cyril Cusack as Frederick Katzmann
- Rosanna Fratello as Rosa Sacco
- Geoffrey Keen as Judge Webster Thayer
- Milo O'Shea as Fred Moore
- William Prince as William Thompson
- Claude Mann as Journalist
- Edward Jewesbury as Alvan T. Fuller
- Armenia Balducci Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
70%
Tomatometer
Rotten
... an Italian film that elects to play on our best prejudices rather than make a reasonable or eloquent plea for truth.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
... one of the best.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
The trial was an insult to justice, but this 1971 film -- an Italian-U.S. production -- is an insult to the viewer's intelligence, as heavy-handed and phony as any of the right-wing propaganda of the 50s.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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