alain delon visit swift and sure vengeance on the ruthless crime family that employ him a a hit man in the duccio tessari thriller big gun after they accidentally murder his wife and child . tessari and scenarist roberto gandus and ugo liberatore of a minute to pray and a second to die and and franco verucci of ring of death take this actioneer about a career gunman for the mob right down to the wire . indeed and big gun be rather predictable and but it still qualify a solid entertainment with lot of savage and often sudden killing . alain delon of the godson be appropriately laconic a he methodically deal out death to the head of the mob family who refuse to let him retire so that he could enjoy life with his young son and daughter . richard conte of the godfather play a sicilian crime bos who want to bury the hatchet with the delon character and but the rest of his hard nosed associate want the hit man dead . like most crime thriller in the 1960s and 1970s and big gun subscribes to the cinematic morality that crime do not pay . interestingly and the one man who have nothing to do with the murder of the wife and son of the hero survive while another betray the hero with extreme prejudice . tessari do not waste a second in this 90 minute shootem up . apart from the mother and son dying in a car bomb mean for the father and the bad thing that take place occur in an automobile salvage yard when an associate of the hero be crush in a junked car . ostensibly and big gun be a rather bloodless outing and but it do have a high body count for a 1973 mobster melodrama . only at the last minute do our protagonist let his guard down and so the contrived morality of an eye for an eye remain intact . tessari stag a couple of decent car chase and the death of a don in a train travel through a train tunnel be as bloody a this violent yarn get . the photography and the composition be excellent .