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In Italian with English subtitles. Also known as
Day of the Owl and
Mafia.
Widescreen. Directed by
Damiano Damiani. Based on the Leonardo Sciascia novel of the same title, this story deals with the difficulties facing a northern police officer investigating a Mafia murder in a small Sicilian town in 1961. Salvatore Colasbena, a construction supplier, was murdered and buried under a blanket of tar because he refused to join the Mafia-controlled road-building group. His widow, Rosa (
Claudia Cardinale), is investigated by the police, but honest Captain Bellodi (
Franco Nero) comes to suspect Mafia boss Don Mariano Arena when he can find no witnesses, no evidence, only hostile obstruction by corrupt government influences.
