Hold-Up, istantanea di una rapina

It is not a masterpiece, the script is not great, it is very predictable and risks becoming very boring for those who do not have patience until the end, because about 70 - 80% of the film are long scenes in which Robert Cunningham, the character played by Frederick Stafford, plays games of chance, poker, roulette at the casino and, with one exception, always loses and drinks a lot of alcohol until he gets drunk and becomes irresponsible. Also many scenes with the same Robert Cunningham, in fact the same scene always, in which he tries to remember where the suitcase with money is and fails. Anyway, Stafford is a very good actor and is believable and convincing in all scenes. Nathalie Delon and Marcel Bozzuffi are just as good, credible and convincing. And Alberto de Mendoza is good in the role of Ashley. The only one who is not credible is Enrico Maria Salerno, an excellent actor in many other films, in which he always played positive heroes. Here, with his face of a good man, he does not convince in the final scene that in fact he was the scoundrel all along who stole the money stolen by the bandits. The first scene in the film, the attack on the van with money, is clearly superior to the rest of the film, it is extremely dynamic, it almost seems real, true, and Bozzuffi demonstrates how expert he was in such roles.