Rialto Pictures
Directed by Alberto Lattuada
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Criterion Collection)
A manager in a Milan car factory takes a two-week vacation in Sicily with is wife and two kids. After the homecoming, he delivers a gift to a wealthy man from the factory boss. He does not realize that the man is actually part of the Sicilian mafia. He becomes indebted to him for a land deal, and within a few days is asked to repay the favor. He is literally mailed to New York in a crate to carry out a hit. Often hilarious, it also shrewdly lifts the veil that only superficially hides the violence lurking in its idyllic setting.
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