With so many great Italian crime films from that era to choose from, why that particular film?
William Lustig: What I appreciate about Machine Gun McCain is that it’s based on a pulp novel and has a very pulp sensibility to it. It has an amoral anti-hero who, and I don’t want to give away too much of the movie, but he’ll go as far as to throw his son under the bus to save himself. He’s a guy who has no redeeming value whatsoever. CSB: Played by John Cassavetes, who was an old hand at playing that kind of role. William Lustig: Exactly. And that’s that kind of thing that Hollywood usually avoids, because it doesn’t really give you a sympathetic hero at all. Almost every scene is about action and violence, and it has that noir sensibility, I mean, it’s not a film shot a night with shadows, but there is that sense that all the people in the movie are doomed. CSB: Well, if there is one consistency among the films in this series and the last, it is that they have some of the bleakest endings I have ever seen, almost to a film. William Lustig: That probably is a common denominator. The
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