Lionel Stander

A frustrated playwright and a woman fleeing her mundane life meet and set off on a romantic, twist-filled road trip from Texas to Brooklyn.

In order to win the heart of a nightclub singer, a sheepish milkman decides to train to become a boxer after knocking out a famed prize fighter.

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?

In the first film of the Fernando Di Leo triology, small-time gangster Ugo Piazza has just been released from prison. He tries to convince the police, the mafia, and his one-time associate Rocco, a sadistic hoodlum who enjoys sick violence and torture, that he wants to go straight, but everyone believes he has $300,000 of stolen money hidden somewhere. Caliber 9’s stylized violence, fast-paced action sequences, tight editing and plot twists prefigure the work of Quentin Tarantino and John Woo. The film also features a notable score by Luis Bacalov and the stunning Barbara Bouchet as Ugo’s go-go dancing girlfriend.

A two-bit talent agent thinks his ticket to the big time is an amazing boxing kangaroo, that draws attention from the mob and animal rights activists.