There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into Frankie's territory, so Frankie flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when his top local associate dies, but then Frankie's life gets complicated: his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison for awhile, his associates and allies are killed one at a time, and attempts on his life start. Help comes from an unlikely source: Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy who's a Milanese raised in Hoboken. Tony designs a plan to spring Frankie from jail, and then all roads lead to Marseilles. Is Tony a future Mafia don?
The first name actor I've seen in a grindhouse film, Lee Van Cleef. Although this is one of the better grindhouse films that I've seen. I was thinking while watching it about how to remake it. Take out some of the silliness and keep the main plot, which was very intriguing. Basically Cleef gets himself arrested, has one of his cop buddies release him so he can kill one of his own men who betrayed him, and returns to prison so he'll have the perfect alibi. However, his friends start to die and his main rival is now trying to set him up for the murder of his friend when they capture the cop who let him free.
