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Citta violenta (Violent City, also known as The Family) is a 1970 Italian film directed by Sergio Sollima and starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland and Telly Savalas. Set and shot in the city of New Orleans, the film is an urban crime thriller with a plot of hitman revenge.
The film was a commercial hit, and one of Sergio Sollima's more political films, and less successful than the director's earlier Spaghetti Westerns. It was released just as Bronson was emerging from his career as a character actor into a period of stardom as a leading man. Danish film director, Nicholas Winding Refn has cited Violent City as one his favorite Italian genre films.