Between Love and Honor | Grant Show, Robert Loggia | Neatly-Plotted Work Showcases Some...

Between Love and Honor | Grant Show, Robert Loggia | viusually colorful and interesting storyline

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	Between Love and Honor Grant Show, Robert Loggia Vintage Home Ent., 2005 average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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Steve Collura is a photographer turned undercover cop out to infiltrate notorius mobster Carlo Gambino's business. As he works his way into the family's inner circle he also falls in love with Gambino's step-daughter Maria Caprefoli and must make a choice between his obligation to the police investigation, his love for Maria, and his growing allegiance to Gambino. When he decides he wants to escape everything with Maria and start a new life, her loyalty to her godfather forces Steve into the most difficult and dangerous decisions of his life.

Neatly-Plotted Work Showcases Some Disadvantages That May Result From One's Nucleus Of Honour.

An opening enscripted frame states "...based on a true story", and therefore a viewer of this well-crafted film must accept the probability that incidents taken from Bill Davidson's published biographical title "Collura: Actor With A Gun" somewhat faithfully relate to actual events, but if there remains a persistent notion that dramatization has overwhelmed available facts, it will be preferable that the narrative be accepted upon its face, and as a work of conception, as well. For indeed, there is a good deal within this production that viewers will find commendable, its storyline effectively depicting an episode in the life and career of a young New York City policeman, Collura (Grant Show), who had been recruited to enlist with the Department for the specific purpose of attempting to infiltrate the Carlo Gambino Mafia family, and who becomes so successful with his mingling that he develops a romantic relationship with Gambino's goddaughter Maria (Maria Pitillo). This affair of the heart unsurprisingly leads to increasing risk for Collura, who will face ineluctable destruction if his true identity becomes known to the Gambino set, and when it eventually is his duty to testify before a grand jury against Gambino, Steve's multi-faceted loyalties, sense of honour, and passion for Maria will all require his keen self-examination and less than simple choices for an increasingly equivocal future. A conversation held upon a television film set between former Detective Collura (who tellingly performs here in a featured role) and Show planted a seed for this picture that is inherently of the Gangster Melodrama genre. Production standards are high, able direction comes from Sam Pillsbury, and the cast is consistently spot on, with Show earning the acting laurels here as an undercover operative not terribly fearful of endangerment. In spite of an excess of cutting during the last half that lessens the film's overall impact, it remains a nicely crafted piece that has been undervalued and virtually ignored. A DVD release benefits from fine visual and audio reproduction while providing no supplemental features.

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viusually colorful and interesting storyline

i was finding myself looking at the camera angles and colorful shots of this movie........it was bright fast interesting and if truthful sad........All the acting was good and no cursing that i noticed anyway, which makes it alot easier to watch for me.The last review told you the w hole story but it was worth the price..........

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