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The Day of the Owl (Italian: Il giorno della civetta, released in the United States as Mafia) is a 1968 Italian–French crime drama film directed by Damiano Damiani, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Leonardo Sciascia, adapted for the screen by Damiani and Ugo Pirro.
Why, for murder, terror, extortion, violence and other profitable enterprises! Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier.
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- Damiano Damiani
The Day of the Owl. 1968 · 1 hr 49 min. TV-MA. Crime · Drama · Foreign/International. To solve the murder of a construction worker, the new police chief of a Sicilian town is forced to take on the government and a ruthless mob boss.
- Damiano Damiani
- January 1, 1968
- 109 min
The Day of the Owl (Italian: Il giorno della civetta [il ˈdʒorno della tʃiˈvetta]) is a crime novel about the Sicilian Mafia by Leonardo Sciascia, finished in 1960 and published in 1961.
- Leonardo Sciascia, Archibald Colquhoun, Arthur Oliver, George Scialabba
- 1961
Day of the Owl PG 1968 1h 53m Drama List Reviews A Sicilian crime kingpin uses his considerable influence to stifle an Italian police captain's murder investigation.
- Douglas Davidson
- PG
- Damiano Damiani
The Day of the Owl is a 1968 Italian–French crime drama film directed by Damiano Damiani, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Leonardo Sciascia, adapted for the screen by Damiani and Ugo Pirro.
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The Day of the Owl stars Franco Nero as a police chief who, while investigating the death of a construction worker, goes up against corrupt officials and a ruthless mafia boss (Lee J. Cobb).
