Rent Revolver (1973)

Interesting - Revolver review by sb

Odd but effective Italian thriller has Reed as an ex-cop turned prison governor whose wife is kidnapped and the price for her release is he must help free an inmate (Testi).

He does this but has no intention of just handing him over - he needs a guarantee for his wife.

The planned handover goes badly wrong and he discovers she is now in Paris but his involvment in the prison break has been uncovered so they are now both wanted men. To cross into France they have to make it over the mountains and then onto Paris...

At first its implied that the kidnappers want Testi to finish off a job but as the plot thickens it involves political assasination, high level cover ups and all manner of dubious characters with even more dubious agenda's,

Reed is very good in the part bringing his customary intensity to the role with Testi in the initially lighter role but matching him as the film progresses.

Good use of the wintery Paris locations but the film is somewhat let down by some terrible dubbing - even Reed seems to sport an American accent which he loses about halfway through and whole swaithes of the film don't make any sense...

But overall it works as a '70's paranoid thriller with a fine score by Morricone the QT has borrowed from - so overall 3.5/5