Hands Over the City (Criterion Collection) (DVD)

Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi's Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate speculation that has devastated Naples's civilian landscape moves breathlessly from a cataclysmic building collapse to the backroom negotiations of civic leaders vying for power in a city council election, laying bare the inner workings of corruption with passion and outrage. Criterion.

Starring: Dany Paris, Salvo Randone, Rod Steiger, Guido Alberti, Marcello Cannavale, Terenzio Cordova, Angelo D'Alessandro, Guglielmo Metafora

Director: Lionello Santi