| Cry Chicago | |
| Director: | Javier Setó |
| Starring: | Jeffrey Hunter, Guglielmo Spoletini, Gogó Rojo, Eduardo Fajardo, Víctor Israel |
| Music: | Gian Franco Reverberi |
| Cinematography: | Emilio Foriscot |
| Editing: | Antonio Gimeno |
| Runtime: | 105 minutes |
| Country: | Spain Italy |
| Language: | Spanish Italian |
| Budget: | 8 169 771 ESP |
Cry Chicago (originally ¡Viva América! and also released as The Mafia Mob, Italian: La vera storia di Frank Mannata) is a 1969 Spanish-Italian crime film directed by the Catalan film director Javier Setó (in the credit Saviero Seto), starring Jeffrey Hunter, Guglielmo Spoletini, Eduardo Fajardo, Víctor Israel, Pier Angeli, Margaret Lee and Gogó Rojo.
After the Great Depression Francesco Mannata started out to America from Sicily to his brother Salvatore in Chicago. Francesco takes the name Frank Mannata and with Salvatore and their sister, Rosella organized a mafia empire. The mafia war breaks out between the Sicilian Mannatas and the Italo-Irish O'Connor-Messina gangs. Many people die in the conflicts (including Salvatore and Rose); finally, Frank Mannata is killed by the minor gangster Dr. MacDonald.
Setó's movie partly is the epigon of crime film They Paid with Bullets: Chicago 1929 (1969) of Julio Diamante.
While in Spain in November 1968 to film Cry Chicago, Jeffrey Hunter was injured in an on-set explosion when a car window near him, which had been rigged to explode outward, accidentally exploded inward.[1] Hunter sustained a serious concussion. According to Hunter's wife Emily, he "...went into shock" on the plane ride back to the United States after filming. After landing, Hunter was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles but doctors could not find any serious injuries.[2] On May 26, 1969, Hunter suffered an intracranial hemorrhage in Van Nuys, California.[1] [2] He fell and struck his head on a banister, fracturing his skull.[3] He was found unconscious and taken to Valley Presbyterian Hospital where he underwent brain surgery to repair his injuries. He died the following morning at the age of 42.[4] This was Hunter's final completed film role.