Sacco & Vanzetti
Sacco & Vanzetti ★★ Sacco e Vanzetti 1971 (PG)
Two Italian immigrants and acknowledged anarchists are caught amidst communist witchhunts and judicial negligence when they are tried and executed for murder in 1920s America. Based on the true-life case, considered by some a flagrant miscarriage of justice and political martyrdom, by others, honest American judicial-system proceedings. Wellmade and acted. Joan Baez sings the title song “The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti.” 120m/C VHS, DVD . Gian Marie Volonte, Riccardo Cucciolla, Milo O'Shea, Cyril Cusack, Geoffrey Keen; D: Guiliano Montaldo; M: Ennio Morricone. Cannes '71: Actor (Cucciolla).
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