Goodbye & Amen
1977 Italian film
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Goodbye & Amen is a 1977 Italian thriller drama film co-written and directed by Damiano Damiani. It stars Tony Musante, Claudia Cardinale and John Forsythe in the leading roles.[2][3][4][5]
Damiano Damiani
by Francis Clifford[1]
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| Directed by | Damiano Damiani[1] |
| Written by | Nicola Badalucco Damiano Damiani |
| Based on | The Grosvenor Square Goodbye by Francis Clifford[1] |
| Produced by | Mario Cecchi Gori[1] |
| Starring | Tony Musante Claudia Cardinale John Steiner John Forsythe |
| Cinematography | Luigi Kuveiller |
| Edited by | Antonio Siciliano |
| Music by | Guido and Maurizio De Angelis[1] |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | English |
Plot
John Dannahay is a CIA agent operating from the United States Embassy in Rome planning a coup of an African country. He finds out an old colleague of his, Harry Lambert, is in contact with one of the subjects of his operation. He tries to get in contact with Lambert but finds from his wife Renata that he has just left. Later, someone enters the Lambert's house and takes a rifle.
At a Hilton hotel, a man sets up the rifle and shoots someone. As a hubbub develops, he shoots a man taking a photograph of the situation. As the police show up, he forces his way into one of the hotel rooms, where Aliki is staying with her lover, Jack, and takes the two hostage.
Renata assumes that Lambert himself took his gun, and Dannahay also surmises this. Dannahay wants to contact Lambert, so he heads to the Hilton Hotel where Police Inspector Moreno is attempting to handle the situation.
The hostage taker calls the police and requests that the American Ambassador come to the hotel room. The Ambassador, also assuming the hostage taker is Lambert, who works at the Embassy, decides to go to the hotel room, though Dannahay says he shouldn't go, as Lambert is a spy working against the United States. When he arrives, he realizes the hostage taker isn't Lambert, but his former chauffeur, Donald Grayson.
Dannahay works out the same fact based on various clues, and visits the actual Harry Lambert, who is at a house with his mistress. Dannahay and Lambert go to the Hotel where the hostage situation is taking place.
During a food delivery, Aliki escapes the hotel room. Grayson, who used to be a soldier, before suffering an injury that affected him mentally, is motivated by his anger after being fired from his various jobs at US Embassies due to his injury. He finally makes his demands, and requests a fourth man be sent to his room. Dannahay convinces Lambert to be the fourth man, telling him he will a hide a gun on the route up to the helicopter that Grayson has requested.
En route the helicopter, Lambert successfully retrieves the loaded gun, and as the four men are about to get on the helicopter, he attempt to shoot Grayson. However, Dannahay has loaded the gun with blanks that fire before he eventually fires a real bullet, wounding Grayson. With the extra time the blanks give him, Grayson has time to use his own gun to fatally shoot Lambert. Inspector Moreno realizes what has happened and confronts Dannahay, who he suspects of engineering the situation in order to have Lambert killed. As the film ends, Moreno suggests that it may be better to keep his nose out of family squabbles.
Cast
- Tony Musante: John Dannahay[6]
- Claudia Cardinale: Aliki[6]
- John Steiner: Donald Grayson[6]
- Renzo Palmer: Parenti[6]
- Fabrizio Jovine: Inspector Moreno[6]
- Wolfango Soldati: Harry Lambert[6]
- Gianrico Tondinelli: Jack[6]
- John Forsythe: The American Ambassador[6]
- Angela Goodwin: ambassador wife
- Anna Zinnemann: Renata
- Alessandro Haber: Blondie
