{"id":35748,"date":"2024-05-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35748"},"modified":"2024-05-13T10:34:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T14:34:17","slug":"violent-city-aka-the-family-1970-starring-charles-bronson-telly-savalas-jill-ireland-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35748","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Violent City&#8221; aka &#8220;The Family&#8221; (1970) starring Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas &amp; Jill Ireland \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z051324zview_violentcity.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"704\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Violent City <\/strong><\/em>(1970)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Sergio Sollima<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Sauro Scavolini, Gianfranco Galligarich, Lina Wertm\u00fcller, Sergio Sollima, <\/strong>story by <strong>Dino Maiuri, Massimo De Rita<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland <\/strong>and <strong>Michel Constantin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>CHARLES BRONSON: A murderer whose love for a woman was VIOLENT. TELLY SAVALAS: A man who owns both the woman and the CITY.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Heston (Bronson) is a hitman who was ambushed and left for dead.\u00a0 Heston believes he was set up by a former boss.\u00a0 Now healed and ready for revenge&#8230; Heston discovers the person who set him up may have been his lover!<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Violent City<\/em> received a second release in the U.S. but retitled as <em>The Family<\/em> in an effort to cash in on <em>The Godfather<\/em>&#8216;s success.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jon Voight and Sharon Tate were considered for the leads.\u00a0 At the time Charles Bronson was a bigger star in Europe and just becoming a leading man in the United States.\u00a0 Bronson agreed to star on the condition that his wife, Jill Ireland would co-star.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>Violent City <\/strong><\/em>(1970) rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z051324zview_violentcity2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent City (1970) Director: Sergio Sollima Screenplay: Sauro Scavolini, Gianfranco Galligarich, Lina Wertm\u00fcller, Sergio Sollima, story by Dino Maiuri, Massimo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35755,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35748\/revisions\/35755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}