The Climber

Original title: L'ambizioso

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

284

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Crime Thriller

A young American in Italy who aspires to be a career criminal starts out working for a big gangster. But he starts to shortchange money collections and he gets beaten and banished from the g... Read allA young American in Italy who aspires to be a career criminal starts out working for a big gangster. But he starts to shortchange money collections and he gets beaten and banished from the gang. Determined to take revenge, he starts over and begins rising to the top.A young American in Italy who aspires to be a career criminal starts out working for a big gangster. But he starts to shortchange money collections and he gets beaten and banished from the gang. Determined to take revenge, he starts over and begins rising to the top.

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

284

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
According to an interview with Joe Dallesandro on the DVD, Director Pasquale Squitieri was an eccentric character who once greeted Dallesandro at his hotel room with a gun.

Connections
Featured in Little Joe's Adventures in Europe (2017)

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Review

Featured review

5/10

Grim, low budget

A tough and sadistically violent Italian crime thriller starring cult actor Joe Dallesandro. He plays a hoodlum who gets beaten to a pulp by gangsters and decides to rise through the ranks, SCARFACE-style, to get revenge. It's a pretty low budget tale that revels in bloody violence meted out to various ne'er-do-wells, but I didn't find it very entertaining along the way; just grim, cheap, and depressing.