In a film in this subgenre, a junkyard kitten gets caught in a firefight that concludes when a framed pimp uses a crane to crush an American hitman. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this Italian-language term for gritty crime films from the 1960s and 70s such as Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. Fernando Di Leo’s films from this subgenre like Caliber 9 comment on the Years of Lead.
ANSWER: poliziotteschi [or poliziottesco or polizieschi all’italiana]
[10e] A Di Leo poliziotteschi film is titled in English for the “Italian” one of these things. A chase scene involving an elevated train appears in a 1971 William Friedkin thriller titled for a “French” one of these things.
ANSWER: connections [accept The Italian Connection or The French Connection]
[10m] William Friedkin’s other transit-related thrillers included Sorcerer, a loose remake of this 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot film, in which two men attempt to drive a truckload of nitroglycerin through the South American wilderness.
ANSWER: The Wages of Fear [or Le Salaire de la peur]
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