Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and entrusts him with the arduous task of putting an end to the Mafia, a sinister criminal organization that has sown terror on the island for centuries.
- Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
- Studio: Rizzoli Film
- Keyword: based on novel or book, sicily, italy, crime fighter, palermo, sicily, organized crime, sicilian mafia, political corruption, italian fascism
- Cast: Giuliano Gemma, Claudia Cardinale, Stefano Satta Flores, Massimo Mollica, Rossella Rusconi, Rik Battaglia