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“Don’t they know that if they stop smuggling in Naples, there will be a revolution?” (from Il Mammasantissima)

By the end of the Seventies, the trend of Italian police/crime films was in a decline. The huge popularity known by the genre since 1972 (thanks to Stefano Vanzina’s La polizia ringrazia/Execution Squad) was gradually waning, caught in the deeper crisis that was submerging the Italian cinema industry as a whole. Nevertheless, an interesting and peculiar subgenre came to the surface, like a sort of spontaneous and geographically circumscribed excrescence of a genre which, in order to survive and perpetuate, had to branch out and bastardize.

The roots of the new hybrid (which could be roughly translated as “guapparia movie”) lie in the so-called “sceneggiata,” a form of play that belongs in the Neapolitan tradition and is characterized by a strong melodramatic component as well as a tragic fatalism: both lead to a final, emotionally powerful catharsis. Songs are an integral and binding part of “sceneggiata,” and constellate the narration in its various parts, while the social environment in which stories take place is that of the “guapparia,” the Neapolitan underworld. The hero is the 

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