Orders Signed in White (1974)
Genre : Crime, Thriller
Runtime : 1H 54M
Director : Gianni Manera
Writer : Ivano Gobbo, Enrico Manera, Gianni Manera, Mario Pisu
Synopsis
After a phone call has been intercepted (an industrialist is going to receive a huge amount of money from a foreign bank), Mafioso Luca Albanese is assigned to set up a big robbery. He and his gang (three men and three women) then hide-out in a remote mountainous region, but soon at each other's throats. Moreover, someone is killing Albanese's men one by one, leaving white paint on the victim's faces...
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