Blood Feud (Italian: Fatto di sangue fra due uomini per causa di una vedova, si sospettano moventi politici, and also known as Revenge) is a 1978 thriller film directed by Lina Wertmüller
JUST past a recent midnight, when the human and mechanical cacophony, that is Naples has died down, a string of trucks and jeeps began rapidly moving into position in Via Chiala, a central artery in the South Italian port city flanked by tall buildings. Rapidly, almost, silently, bulky film,equipment was unloaded and set up in nearby alieyways, on overhanging bridges and terraces
Just as quickly, word got around that something big was happening in Via Chiaia, and people began rushing up, isolated at first, then in groups
Neighborhood windows opened and sleepy Neapolitans came out on their balconies, staying to see the show below them
A group of “scugnizzi,” the indomitable children of Naples, sat down along one sidewalk fronting the camera position. A few of them played a busy, local version of poker; others watched, entranced but alert, as a silver‐haired gentleman strolled importantly to and fro imparting Instructions
The gentleman, everyone in Naples knew, was Vittorio DeSica, and he was instructing his cameraman, Roberto Gerardi, on just how he wanted to shoot the next scene of “Marriage, Italian Style,” a Carlo Ponti‐Joseph E. Levine production based on Eduardo DeFilippo’s well‐known play, “Filumena Marturano” and again teaming the director and the stars of the recently successful, “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastrolanni
Among others in the cast of the $3,000,00 Eastmancolor ‐ widescreen enterprise which Embassy will release in most world areas are Ingrid Bergman’s daughter, Pia Lindstrom, Aldo Puglisi and Marilu Tolo
The story, according to a press release, deals with “the romantic antics and matrimonial machination of an ex‐call girl who is determined to marry the man who has been keeping her and thereby give legal names to her three fully grown sons, one of whom—though she adamantly refuses to tell which—has been father by her errant lover
Though financed by Italian producer Alberto Grimaldi and shot in Rome, the film is in English, with all principal actors either British or American, excepting Sophia Loren
(Gino Conforti, the Barber, is an American of Italian descent.)
The film was released by United Artists and is known in Italy as L'Uomo della Mancha
Produced and directed by Arthur Hiller, the film stars Peter O'Toole as both Miguel de Cervantes and Don Quixote, James Coco as both Cervantes' manservant and Don Quixote's "squire" Sancho Panza, and Sophia Loren as scullery maid and prostitute Aldonza, whom the delusional Don Quixote idolizes as Dulcinea
Gillian Lynne staged the film's choreography and fight scenes